Notebook No.180, October 1852 - October 1852

Notebook 180 begins in mid-October and ends in late December 1852. Lyell is in the United States, traveling in the Boston area and giving a six-week lecture series for the Lowell Institute. In the first half of the notebook, Lyell is working with Louis Agassiz and Jeffries Wyman to identify the bones found while in Joggins, Nova Scotia. On December 1st, the Lyells departed on the steamship Asia for Liverpool, arriving on December 12th. The last section of the notebook continues with geologic notes from a trip to the Isle of Wight.

p. 1 List of lecture topics for the Lowell Lectures
p. 2 “Mem[oranda]”, “To Pepperell”, “Pepperell”
[15 October 1852]
p. 3 “Mem[oranda]”, “Holy Willy’s Prayer” [sic Holy Willie's Prayer]
p. 4 “Geogr[aphic] Distrib[ution]”, “Gove[rnor] Seward betting the coachman”
p. 5 Hugh Miller
p. 6 “With Agassiz”, “Sertularia become Medusa”, “Nahant Coal”, “Sauroid fish”
p. 8 “Joggins fish”, Geological sketch
p. 9 “With Agassiz to Nahant”, Geological sketch and discussion of furrow direction
p. 10 Geological sketch of Nahant and “the dark trip invad[ing] stratif[ied] porphyry”
p. 10-12 “With Agassiz”, “Everglades of Florida”, Writings on the formation of coral reefs
[Wednesday, 20 October 1852]
p. 12 “With T Appleton”, “Theodore Parker large congregation”
p. 12-13 “Laura Bridgman”
p. 13 Calculations involving minutes
p. 14 List of 1-5 Lowell lecture topics, “South Boston (Dr. Howes)” and shells
p. 16 “Mem[oranda]”, List of topics
p. 17 “Mem[oranda]”, “Queries Ag
assiz”
[23 & 24 October 1852]
p. 18 “With Wyman”, “Rotifera”, “Vorticella”, “Paramecia”
p. 20 Infusoria, germs, embryos, and low forms, “Coralline”
p. 22 Florida reefs
[25 October 1852]
p. 24 Calculations involving minutes, To Milton & Blue Hills with T. Appleton
p. 25 Quote from Dryden, Elevation sketch
p. 26 Sketch and shells found in South Cove above South Boston, Dr. Jackson and Dr. Bigelow addresses
p. 27 “With Dr. Gould”
p. 28 “Mem[oranda]”, Notes on delta,
p. 29 “Mem[oranda]” of letters
p. 30 Sketch with sea level, List of quadrupeds
p. 31 “Illus[trations] Silliman's Lowell Inst[itute]”, “Agassiz lecture”
p. 32 “Fish were first half reptilian”, “Articulate heart above nerves below”
p. 33 Query for Agassiz
p. 34 “Embryonic develop[ment] on same plane”, “Joggins”, “Vertebra Coal N[ova] Scotia”
p. 36 “Double articulating surfaces of the occiput”, “The vertebrae differ from gar fish”
p. 38 Sketch of Joggins fossil bones
p. 39 Addresses, List of scientific queries
p. 40 “Mem[oranda]”, “One end of iliac bone”, “Persistent tail” [?], “Teeth may belong to reptile”
p. 41 “Agassiz thinks Owen’s Archetype & Parthenogenesis will not hold”, “Queries Wyman”
p. 42 “Mem[orana]”, Sketch of Ilium, pubis, and femur bones
p. 44, 46, 48, 50 Notes on reptiles, fish, and salamanders
p. 48 “Charles C. Jewett Librarian”
p. 49 “Mem[oranda]”, “Queries”
[13 November 1852]
p. 51 “With Agassiz”, “Footprints of Connecticut valley”
p. 52 List of names
p. 52, 54 Notes on species changing
[21 November 1852]
p. 55 List of names, “Given Copal from Zanzibar”
p. 56 “Mem[oranda]” numbered 1-18
p. 57 “Illust[rations]” numbered 1-11
p. 58 “With Mr. Bond, Observatory Cambridge”, “Dawson” list numbered 1-6.
[29 November 1852]
p. 59 “To be bought”
[30 November 1852]
p. 60 Packing list numbered 1-15, Addresses in New York City
[1 December 1852]
p. 62 “New York Metropolitan Hotel”, “Mem[oranda]”
p. 64 “Mem[oranda]”, “Progression development”, “Metamorphic theory”
p. 66 “Progression development” continued, “Steamship Asia”, “Memorandum”
p. 66, 68 “For Principles 9th Ed[ition]” A-O
p. 70 “Mem[oranda]”, “Storm of Great [? Westin]”, “Ferrier”
p. 72 “Mormons Battalion”, Packing list, “Steam Boat Asia left N.Y. 1st Dec[ember]”
p. 74 “Ross U[pper]. Caradoc”, “Coutts & C[ompany]”, “Murrays” [14 December 1852]
p. 75 “Mem[oranda]” numbered 1-14
p. 76 “To take to Owen”, List of numbers
p. 77 “Arapaima gigas”, Discussion of UK politics
[17 December 1852]
p. 78 “Wyman’s Paper”, “With Owen Coll[ege] of Surg[eons]”
p. 78, 79 “Reptiles & fish”
[20 December 1852]
p. 80 Discussions of various shells
[21 and 22 December 1852]
p. 81 “Pleurotomaria of Tournay”, “Crag coprolites & Mammalia”
p. 82 List of shells
p. 83 “Mem[oranda]” numbered 1-12, “Take to I[sle] of W[ight]”
p. 84 “E. Forbes” list numbered 1 -12
p. 86 “London to Winchester”, sketch of Fareham landscape, “Sea View near Ryde”
p. 88 “Brembridge Down” with sketch
p. 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100 Stratigrand geological observations of the Isle of Wight with sketches
p. 100 “M[r]. Bouchard Chantereaux’s work”
p. 102 List of Cyrena fossils, “Cerithium mutabile”, “Cyrena obovata”
p. 104 Discussion or shells, “Mem[oranda]”, “Venus incrassata”
p. 106 “Canary Isl[ands]”
p. 108 “Mem[oranda]”, shells
p. 110 “Mem[oranda]” numbered 1-9, Sketch of “Sandown to Yaverland”
p. 112 “Azores”, “Mem[oranda]” numbered 1-5
p. 113 “Devonian Flora”, “Chara tuberculate “Antiquity of Man”
p. 114 “Bunbury on Algae”, “Mem[oranda]”