This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from May 4th to August 1845 while in London and at Kinnordy in Scotland. The index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 113-117. Notes are in pencil and ink.

Content warning: Lyell uses his Scientific Notebooks to gather evidence, based on both his own observation, by reviewing other people's works, by correspondence, asking questions and analyses. The language used in this index is historical, discriminatory and may cause offence.

The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the end of the notebook, transcribed from digital surrogates using the platform Transkribus. When known, Lyell's abbreviations and contractions have been expanded using brackets []. When writing is unclear, and transcription is not possible, this is denoted using [...]. Quotation marks are Lyell's own. Ditto marks are indicated by a hyphen, with the repeated term given in square brackets to ease searching. The inclusion of [sic] indicates the misspelling of a word is deliberate and taken from the notebook.

No 119 Index. May 4 to August
p. 1 Hamilton Group N[ew].Y[ork]. like Devonian
p. 1 Anthony new Cyclas f[ound] recent[ly] Cincinnati
p. 1 Wheeling Unio bed
p. 1 Mill Creek (Cincinnati) shells
p. 2 to 9 De Verneuil on my American Silurian fossils
p. 10 - [De Verneuil] on species common to America & European Silurian
p. 12 Fish fossils in Wenlock in Engl[and]
p. 12 Philippi says brachiopoda living abound in Northern seas
p. 12 E. Forbes on deep-sea character of Silurian strata, Sea-weed
p. 14 & 18 Psarolite of U.S. nearest Chemnitz
p. 17 Wood cuts receiv[ed] from Spottiswoode
p. 20 Sand-pipe (Westram) [sic Westerham] in Chalk, deep
p. 23 Equality in U.S. & England - Rank. Vulgarity
p. 25 List of plants. Down. June 1st
p. 26 Misleto [sic Miseltoe] adaptative of bird, plant, insect
p. 26 Slope of railway cut London Clay - Sea cliff
p. 28 Knowle - Pictures
p. 29 Capt[ain]. Bayfield, Sandst[one]. L[ake]. Superior
p. 29 - [Capt[ain]. Bayfield] L[ake]. Huron limest[one]. Manitoulin
p. 30 - [Capt[ain]. Bayfield] I[sland]. of Anticosti Silur[ian]
p. 36 Descript[ion] of my U.S. Map line of route
p. 41 Lynch law on England. Belaney
p. 43 Brit[ish]. Assoc[iation]. Meeting Cambr[idge]. Hay & Reid
p. 48 to 60 Plants, at Kinnordy, alphabetical list of, gathered 1844 copy
p. 61 Errata Travels in America
p. 62 Books et cetera taken to Kinnordy
p. 64 & 102 Insects taken at Kinnordy 1845 Aug[ust]
p. 65 Odour of Linnaea borealis 2nd Ed[ition]
p. 66 Corrigenda Falls of Niag[ra]. Travels 1 - 41
p. 67, 66, & 69 My Norfolk fluvio marine paper
p. 66 Baden Powell title of work
p. 67 Zeuglodon reference to Owen, Silliman
p. 68 Books taken to U.S. for Lectures
p. 69 Dragonfly Aschne [sic Aeshna?] killing moth KY
p. 70 Wales power in Angus Blackadder
p. 70 Geography of Heaths in Angus
p. 71 Oriental Plane [tree] killed in 1813
p. 72 Analysis of soils not suff[icient] Blackadd[er]
p. 72 Deluge in Egypt Q[uery] Bunsen
p. 73 Scholarship & fellowship effect of and counter-bribes necessary
p. 75 Plants L[ord?]. of Kinnordy
p. 74 Cupressus disticha & C[upressus] thyoides
p. 75 Books taken to U.S.
p. 75 Rafflesia & Misodendron
p. 76 Eildon Hill parallel roads, reference
p. 76 Insects taken from Kinnordy
p. 78 Food of Elephant Owen
p. 78 Texas Elephant
p. 79 Falconer Brit[ish]. Mus[eum]. on Mastodon, and Elephant [‘and Elephant’ interlined]
p. 80 - [Falconer] on hippopot[amus]
p. 80 & 82 Owen [‘Owen’ interlined] on recent species of mammalia contempor[ary] w[ith] extinct
p. 80 - [Owen] Thylacinus without marsupial bones
p. 82 - [Owen] Big Bone L[ick]. Eleph[ant] true primigenius
p. 83 - [Owen] Rein deer [sic Reindeer] of Croizet with [? bored horn]
p. 84 - [Owen] Megalonyx in U.S.
p. 84 - [Owen] Semnopithecus & Cercopithecus
p. 85 - [Owen] Elephant Mastodon Bos
p. 86 & 88 Illustration taken to Boston 1845
p. 87 H[enry] D[arwin] Rogers unconformability of U.S. Silurian
p. 87 - [H.D. Rogers] Gypsum like N[ova] Scotia in V[irginia]
p. 87 - [H.D. Rogers] Lowest fish in U.S.
p. 88 list of illustrations taken to America
p. 91 Abolitionist Quaker letter [William] Tanner
p. 91 Judge Hammond on slavery
p. 95 Waterhouse, Opossum Marsupial bones
p. 96 - [Waterhouse] Distribution of mammalian Maps of
p. 98 Hearne’s Travels in N[orth] America
p. 99 Stokes on L[ake]. Pontchartrain cedar swamp
p. 99 - [Stokes] on children employed in cotton crop
p. 100 Dr. Falconer on Mastodons & Elephants
p. 102 - [Dr. Falconer] on M[astodon]. augustideus & longirostris
p. 105 Judge Hammond on slave-trade & horrors of [‘of’ interlined]
p. 105 Darwin Review of in N[orth]. American Rev[iew]
p. 105 Slavery in W. Indies - middlemen. Stokes [comparison with slaves in Brazil]
p. 106 N[ew]. York, Fires, Inigo Jones [considering response of Londoners after the fire there]
p. 106 U.S. south of Potomac least pleasure in traveling [‘traveling’ interlined]
[Texas, war declared, act of piracy against Mexico]
p. 107 Schomberg [sic Schomburgk], Sir G. [scored through on page and replaced with Robert] on slaves W[est]. Indies
p. 107 - [Schomberg [sic Schomburgk]] recommended gradual emancip[ation]
[p. 107] Griff, term meaning of -
p. 107 Schomberg [sic Schomburgk] on Guiaina [sic Guyana] climate blacks unfairly avoided in soc[iety]
p. 109 Party spirit in U.S. Stokes on excess of
p. 110 Population of U.S. Everett letter
p. 110 Slavery V[irgina] ladies prefer black nurse
p. 110 - [Slavery] they wonder at Lady Byron dining with black man
p. 110 Slaves mostly marry
p. 111 U.S. manners no place for idlers
p. 111 Fire in N[ew]. Y[ork].
p. 112 Annexation of Texas ag[ainst] opinion of best men [‘men’ interlined]
p. 112 U.S. morality of women comp[ared] to England
p. 112 - [U.S.] bankruptcies as affecting foreigners
p. 112 Rich men cannot settle in US for 3 reasons