Notebook No.181, 4 January 1853 - 14 March 1853
Scope and Contents
Notebook 181 starts on 4 January 1853 and the final date listed is March 14 (p. 102). Lyell is based in London. He attends the Annual General Meeting of the Geological Society, and the notebook primarily contains notes on the topics presented, with perhaps a focus on Forbes Lectures, all on which are written on the left hand pages of the notebook. The right hand pages are then used for notes in pen, noting meetings, addresses and details.
There is no index in this notebook, but there is one in Lyell’s separate series of Index Notebooks, reference Coll-203/A5/3 p. 16 which is transcribed here. Other notable entries from this notebook, have been included below in square brackets [].
p. 16
p. 5 Darwin’s idea that 100 ft of chalk dissolved 160.
p. 22 not true for where partial covering of flints no rise above the rest.
p. 43 also see C.D.'s reply [Notebook] 182
p. 16 Deepest oceanic sounding 7706 fath[oms] lat[itude] 36 - 49. Denham
p. 19, 32 another in Atlantic still deeper?
[p. 32 list of 'specimens packed up']
[p. 33 Visits Zool[ogical] Gardens, with Price and friend
[p. 35 Mr Salter - Potsdam Sandstone footprints]
[p. 44 'Left behind MS of P of G]
[p. 45 notes on Whymper relating to Niagara woodcut]
[p. 58 Brit. Museum Emys Marsh Tortoise]
p. 66, 80 Ganges carries down says Capt[ain] Strachey into B[ay] of Bengal 11 times as much mud as Mississippi according to Riddell’s estimate
[p. 78 brief reference to Fossil Man of St Denise]
p. 80 According to Forshay’s last estimate of Mississ[ippi] mud water being more times w[ould] be 1/10 less
p. 82 E. Forbes Barren ground period artic Irish elk not glacial after this the Red Deer period (of Scotch Marl)
p. 84 All the glacial shells save[?] Leda oblonga still living in north
p. 86 Wexford glacial drift contains Fusus contrarius and a Mitre.
p. 86 Glacial [‘Glacial’ deleted] Historical, prehistorical Boreal Glacial, Preglacial. Norwich Crag? cold currents from north. Red Crag etc etc
[p. Mems of Prof Phillips and notes on James Thomas Brown, aged 36, Kentish Town, who had been employed by Brunel on railways, sketch of coccoon on p. 89]
p. 91, 92 Climate of Crags
p. 92 Nucula cobboldiae in Irish drift and a mitre
p. 96 Shells in Crag
p. 96 I[sle] of Mull Miocene Flora (q[uer]y where Icelandic)
[p. 100 sketch Hempstead Hill, Yarmouth and Sconce [Isle of Wight]]
[p. 111 Owen's notes]
p. 114 Peat, bed of, on Hooghly above Calcutta with seed of plant not now growing there
p. 114 Buried forest Calcutta
p. 114 Steep slope of rivers supplying Ganges, at angle of 5° from channels
Dates
- Creation: 4 January 1853 - 14 March 1853
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Language of Materials
English
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115 folios
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57 Leaves
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1 volume
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Processing Information
Transcribed by Drew Coleman, and catalogued by Pamela McIntyre, Strategic Projects Archivist, October 2024
Subject
- Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) (Person)
- Denham, Henry Mangles, Sir , 1800-1887 (British Royal Navy Officer) (Person)
- Geological Society of London (1807-:) (Organization)
- Strachey, Richard, Sir, 24 July 1817 – 12 February 1908 (British soldier and Indian administrator) (Person)
- Riddell, John Leonard, 1807-1865 (Science lecturer, botanist, geologist, medical doctor, chemist, microscopist, numismatist, politician, and author) (Person)
- Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) (Person)
- Salter, John William, 1820-1869 (palaeontologist, Geological Survey of Great Britain) (Person)
- Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903 (Person)
- Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 (English biologist) (Person)
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