This purple-black notebook contains a record of the queries, conversations, and discussions of Charles Lyell commencing July 1848 whilst based in London and Scotland, focusing on the political, religious, and geological ideas that started during his travel in America and before his second travels in Americal was published in 1849. It covers content on America- Wyoming, Massachusetts, Boston, as well as on Kinnordy, Ireland, and London. This notebook has detailed notes on the geology of America, the state of slavery, education, flora and fauna and animal emanation theory (in Egypt). Some of the key individuals Lyell talks to and about include: John Cambell (Governor of Wyoming), Joseph Dalton Hooker (Plant Biologist), and Harriet Martineau (Sociologist). This Notebook also has many original sketches by Lyell, including the geology of Kinnordy and the surrounding areas like Clune Hill, p.72-77 and p.107. This notebook is written in ink and pencil and has a single page index on page 135.

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, can be discriminatory and may cause offence.

Transcription note: When known, Lyell’s abbreviations, contractions, and known people, have been expanded using square brackets ( [] ). The inclusion of [sic] indicates the misspelling of a word is deliberate and taken from the notebook.

Index
p.3 Norton on the judgement water about the heavens etc.
[p.4 lists of books and notebooks to take to Kinnordy]
p.6 American river streams superior (20m Cunard)
p.12 Slaves if educated w[oul]d be discontented, so say the English aristocracy
p.12 Animal emanation theory of Egyptians cited by Miss [Harriet] Martineau
[p. 13 with Prince Albert] p.15 [Gertrude] Campbell’s Wyoming, extracts from
p.17 & 24 [Campbell] lakes in the Allghonies [sic Allegheny Ridge?]
p.26 Independent churches in U.S
p.26 Pewholders freehold of Hilliard
p.26 Old assessment to pay sect in Mass[achusetts]
p.31 Unitarian aristocracy conservation at Boston
p.31 [Unitarian aristocracy] draw[in]g a line between them and F. Parker
p.34 Entails compared to enslaved opinions
p.36 American & English railway carriages compared
p.62 U.S. has its Ireland or unadvanced parts
p.63 Luther is bust in Walhalla
p.67 Truth tampering with
p.69 Names of Trees Sassafras. Ailanthus etc.
p.70 Quaker’s discarding peculiar dress
- Trees names of
p.81 [Tree names of] - Poison Ivy, Hickory etc birds snake [Joseph Dalton] Hooker’s Jour[nal] of Botany
p.99 Addenda & omission of 3rd ed M[anu]S[cript]
p.120 Tillandsia usneoides - notes on it from London