Notebook No.197, April 1854 - August 1854

This black notebook covers the months between April and August 1854, recording Charles Lyell's final travel in Madeira and the Canary Islands, includes his voyage home and ends in London. Some of the key locations this notebook discusses are Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Madeira, Baranco de Santos, and Pico De Cruz. The beginning of this notebook includes sketches and notes on the geological formations of Madeira and Tenerife including dikes, alluvium, basalt, tuff, columnar lava and breccia. Whilst on the journey back to London Lyell works on edits, revisions, and additions to what he calls ‘Manual’ most likely being his Manual of Elementary Geology. A large section of this notebook then is in prose, recording Lyell’s first formulation of his theory of the Origin of Madeira (p.26-42). From this point, the notebook loses specific direction - other than regularly noting, from p. 40, his research towards moving house - lists of houses considered, room sizes and prices, calculations, taxes, surveyors and bankers - and becomes a space for Lyell to make quick notations, memorandums, lists of copies of his book sold, copies given, addresses, books to be bound, and conversations with lots of different individuals. Such individuals include Pedro Maffiote (Geologist), Georg Hartung (Geologist) - who comes to London to continue their work - John Gibson (Sculptor) and other illustrators including Salter, Lord Overton (Scientist and Politician), Reverend W. Vernon Hancount (Scientist), Andrew Ramsay (Geologist), Charles Darwin (Naturalist and Geologist), and Edward Forbes (Naturalist). This notebook also contains lists of shells and fossils brought back from Madeira, and workings on geological time periods and species found, towards the end.

This notebook is written in ink and pencil and does not include an index. This notebook has been indexed in the "Index to Note Books on Geology of Maderia” reference Coll-203/A5/14 [was 16] on p.89. That index is transcribed below. There is also a part index in Lyell's series of Index Books, reference Coll-203/A5/5 [was 3] 1860 p. 18-19, which starts from p. 74 and this is included below. A summary of the entire notebook then follows, focusing on key places, people, topics and projects.

[From “INDEX To NOTE Books on Geology of Maderia” p.89:
p.1 Sa Cruz Teneriffe [Sic Tenerife] section with shells of Pastor
p.2 Ornos [Sic Órganos?] del Rey G[ran]d Canary Helix in limest[one].
p.3 Marine Almendrado indicating upheaval of 10 ft?
p.3 Patella
p.3 Land Shells under lava 60 ft above the sea.
p.3 Section in Garden S. of Lava
p.5 Barranco de Santos
p.8 Gravel of beach well rounded under 30 ft of basalt N end of S[ant]a Cruz
p.9 Alluv[iu]m above the lava

[From 'Index Book No. 3' reference Coll-203/A5/5 [was 3]
p. 74 No Gymnosperms in Hindustan from foot of Himalayas & Hindustan
[p.74] Mammalia in land shells rare in Sikkim Himalaya
p.92 Waterhouse Hawkins says Australian frogs could make trifid footprints - also Iguanodon [also reference to Beckles Hastings]
p.106 Gibson says statues in Greece exceeded living population
p.107 Chara Geol. Trans. pl. 47. fig. 1 is same
[p.107] Deccan formation in which Hooker finds Neuroptera Browniana

Summarised content:
p.1 April 5th, 1854 – Tenerife, itinerary, geology and heights
p.2 Ornas del Rey, Xinama, Helix albolabris between lava - list: dikes, mass, solids, alluvium
p.3 Environ[ment] of Santa Cruz Tenerife, imbedded shells,
p.4 Sketch - sinking for water, marine shells
p.5 drawing – Baranco de Santos, columnar lava, Basalt, red tuff, heights, bones found [text includes “ascribed to a rabbit”]
p.6 memorandum – copy of Principles to [Pedro] Maffiote, Mr Pastors collection
p.8 sketches - North end of Santo Cruz
p.10 list/page numbers:
1. map of Tenerife – [Ravines?] 193 p.32
2. Marguiella of Pico del Viento ask Pastor 193 p.34
3. return map to M. Berthelot
4. p.144 schiston question ‘over conglom or breccia, & p.146
Manual p.392 - Caldera - Captain Strutt, Hartung, from Madeira [notes on next steamer by which Hartung comes from Madeira]
p.11 Manual, p.368, fig 436, 374
p.12 sketch – Pico de Cruz, geology
p.14 Pico de Cruz continued, volcanoes
p.16 Latitude, p.380 dikes, Tenerife
p.18 sketch – Madeira. Manual, p.390
p.19-23 p.390 continued, revisions and crossings out
p.24 - 26 breccia, scoria, dikes, tuff, Madeira
p.26- 42 Maderia Origin: Origin of principle mass of the Island, absence if marine shells, lava scoria lapilli, Etna, eruptions, craters, dips, Vesuvius [includes labelled sketch of island mountain profile p. 31, p. 37 and p. 42] ...
p.43 Train times, list of mems, some struck through as completed.
p.44 Addresses: ‘for diagrams’ Mr Meadows, Portrait & Miniature Painter, Mile End. Address Miss Wright at Miss Harford’s, Richmond Green London
p.45 Principles of Geology- numbers sold England and America, and numbers ‘on hand’. Book on Isle of Wight by R. Jones, and note of Rupert Jones address
p.46 Mr [Edward] Forbes
p.47 Books presented by
p.48 [Thomas Henry] Huxley in Westminster, addresses:
Alfred Tylor Warwick Lane, Newgate Street London
Fernando del Castillo 32 Dorset Square
Mr. C.C. Felton
J. H. Farrier Board of Trade Whitehall
p.49 calculations as to rents and taxes. Specifications for a 2ft 6-inch box. Colouring of shells, see Forbes list
p.50 layer in Siluria, German Berlin geology society. Notes on rents
p.51 May 1st, N.Y reprint, J. Hall, address: Adolf Schlagintweit
p.52 Humboldt letter on Canaries Schlagintweit, CR Weld to ‘see me about tour to US’. eology society meeting, Forbes British Museum Bryozoa, Salton Siluria oldest beds
p.53- 56 addresses:
Wildy Bank of Coutts 59 Strand George Peell, recommended by Mr Queckett Coll of Surgeons for Library Brit Mus
Mr [later Dr] Travers [paid in Arctic £30],
Goodhue in New York, Weston in the house
Thomas Horsfield, J.B Brown, ‘to meet lawyers,
p.56 Hartung Royal Hotel Blackfriars Bridge, JB Brown, St Enoch Square, Glasgow
p.58-59 Madeira Fossils unpacked May 15th 1854 - list of specimens, some in ‘cigar boxes’
p.60 Zoological Society
p.61 Queries for Hartung on use of his illustrations and keeping those not marked copies
p.62 attendance list or list of papers sent to
p.66 memorandum continued
p.67 to be bound
p.68 George Hartung address, E Becker Darmstadt
p.70 memorandum, bones
p.72 list of houses prices and rooms
p.73 memorandum – C Darwin German dict[ionar]y of Natural History
p.74 coniferous plants, land shells
p.76 11 Harley St – heights, widths, drawing room
p.77 10 Chambers St – heights, widths, drawing room
p.79 10 Chambers St – back-room height, front room
p.80 58 Harley St – heights, widths – No 14c [Deamort?] Place
p.81-82 Madeira notes with Rev[erand] W. Vernon Harcourt
p.83 sketch – all lava green sand
p.84 Houses - 1600 for 17 years – Andrew Ramsay author copy of manual
p.85 addresses
p.86 June 14, 1854 – looking at houses
p.87 Poem “If the records you search of past ages or travel,
Thro’ space & each bright nebula’s coil to unravel
You will find at the last when you fathom infinity
That the great works of God is the Master of – and another draft with corrections.
With Salter.
p.89 insects of coal
p.90 Elford houses – Barometrical heights
p.91 June 20th 1654 – Revd Whitwell Elwin Editor of Quarterly Review of Norfolk
p.92 June 22nd 1854 – Madeira fossils, British Museum
p.94 53 Harley St – if let for 180 a year
p.95 newscutting featuring poem from p. 87
p.96 23 Upper Winforth, 4 St Andrews Place, 78 Winforth St
p.97 Report N.Y exhibition 50 copies sent to
p.98 53 upper Harley St
p.99 addresses Thomas C Sandars 14 Dorchester Place, Henry L Watts, West Hoathley, Sussex,
p.100 sketch – Allamanda yellow and pink, Lord Overstone
[JA Lamb Thomas’?] Berkeley Square
[Salter ?] 97 Gloucester Pl, Kentish Town
p.102 Robert Brown, J Hooker
p.103 houses
p.105 memorandum, houses – including remarks as to size
p.106- 107 Addresses include Dr Carter, P Johnston, 14 Charles Street Haymarket, W Smead of Cincinnati Mivart’s Hotel [Claridges] July 19, with Mr [John] Gibson of Rome, sculptor, “the Greeks painted the eyes of statues blue or had glass eyes... Painting statues was a profession.... Praxiteles when praised said that Nicias who painted his statues deserved no small part of the credits...The number of statues in Greece may have exceeded the living population”.
p.108 time periods, with notes on dates when mammals, reptiles and fish found
p.109 houses
p.110 Time periods and Fossil Fish, species
p.111 Siluria
p.112 volumes
p.114 Davies of British Museum, memorandum, Dr Williams and Dr Salter ‘about figs’ [figures]. ‘Ready for printer, 2nd packet added to the other...” Madeira abstract to Darwin, other names include Spedding, Faraday, Fleming
p.115 addresses Honourable W Young (Nova Scotia), Wm Gourlie 2 South Frederick Street, Glasgow. More sent to printer. Postages across Europe. p.116 Brown Shipley & Co Liverpool [bank], houses, Mr Lockyer Surveyor
p.117 houses and prices
p.118 August 3rd - addresses, memorandum Samuel H[enry] Thompson, Thingwall Liverpool [Banker], Sir H Holland
Samuel H[enry] Thompson fl 1837-1892
p.119 addresses, Mr Tyrman Surveyor 44 Weymouth Place, Geological vol 7 p.263 Salter
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