Notebook No.160, September 1849 - January 1850

This Notebook has no index; there is short one located in Index Notebook 1860 reference Coll-203/A5/5 (was A5/3] that is included here along with a summary of the rest of the contents:
Peat, says Forchhammer, not formed if mean temperature below 43 & 44 Fa[hrenheit]. Frost causes vegetable (brown) matter to be precipitated. see more page 1, 2
p.17 The Bilin fossils are vegetable, Mantell.
p.18 In conception earthquake waves throw up large slabs wh[ich] in subsiding coast may travel up hill.
p.22 Darwin thinks 100 f[ee]t thickness of chalk may have been dissolved by rain & may have left unrolled flints.
p.24 Rocks 15 fath[o]ms deep not worn by waves off T. del Fuego - covered by sea weeds -
p.26 Mud in English channel 80 fath[o]ms deep disturbed, says Martin White.
Additional summary:
p.28 Darwin’s On Volcanic Islands; get map of Mauritius [with notes on] & Vidals US map of Canary Islands. p.30 St Helena, Daubeny p.32, 33 Horner’s Notes; New Council [list of names, plus those to ‘go out’ including Lyell]. p. 34 and 38 Elevation Crater Theory; with Morris p.38, 39 Legenda p. 40 Mems, quote from Sir Walter Scott, possible reference to Ellsler, acting family. p.41 Address of Mr. Goadby p.49 Sketch of nail, or screw, driven into a hole, or gap p.51 List of books taken to Kinnordy P54. Notes on Kerr ‘responsibility of trust’ with calculations p.64 Calculations relating to Kinnordy Estate, notes on Kerr p.66 Book titles and sales [or copies available?] p.68, 83 Notes on Anniversary Speech, Crater Theory, S Wood’s paper on Crag 84. Americana – Prescott's Peru, list of mems – including write to Joachim don Enquerro, Madrid, waste paper books for Index, questions for Morris, Murchison, Von Buch p. 85 Notes a review of 2nd Visit – Peru – “Rosetti told?”. Mems relating to Rosetti and Kerr p.86 calculations and more queries p.87 page is cut, perhaps some greek lettering as some remains on the page; calculations and queries. p. 98, 99 Notes on income, including Lowell Lectures. p.100 SS Review in Edinburgh on Edgeworth on Irish Bulls – on wit & bulls, Rev Rob Milman, life of Tasso, J Spedding, and Lord Bacon, Maccauley p.103. 2nd Visit Cheap Edit[ion] Orr, with a list of queries and suggestions, reference to Times article on Queen Adelaide funeral p.104 entire page of list of mems, including Age of Sandwich Islands, people to write too, return items to Babbage, p.105 Bezley, Bazley, Thomas, President of Chamber of Commerce, Mem to Charles Weston 5 Lion Place, Bath re parcel p.119 Americana F. Shroeder says 30,000 Mexicans were killed in the war, in the field & by disease. p.121 Americana – with Rogers [2 January 1850] notes from their chat include Garrick in ‘Suspicious Husband’, anecdote from Duke of Wellington, on sculptors and burial at sea. p.123 Prose text, reading of J. Forbes paper [continues on following page], and quote from on Geology Mantell made by Sir T Brown. p.125 Americana – on hospitality in church, and comfort "Won’t you lay off your bonnet” p.127-128, Kinnordy estate business with Kerr including discussion as to the settling of debt, and exploring setting up of a Trust which features notes on the location of family “Harry in India, I in Italy or America, & Eleanor recommended by Dr. Scott to be in Brighton with one of the others sisters etc” p.128 More notes on Kerr, includes query ‘why was I not Tutor in Law’ list of mems includes ‘Rossetti, call on after Kinnordy’ and return Hutton Ceylon Gneiss & send note to J, Nicol p.129 -133 Anniversary Special lecture, notes and names of people sent to. p.134 - 136 Americana – England perceptions, religious themes, kitchen and dining, p. 136 With Macaulay & Milman at Bartons Feby 2nd 1850 - various quotes including “A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw” Roscommon? “Last at the cross & earliest at the grave”, “England’s monarch uncovered sat, While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat" and “how much the wife is dearer than the bride” Lord Littleton. Mem – asks for the printer. p.127 Americana Everett’s letter on Independence and costs of newspapers in US. Mem – asks of Murray