Notebook No.198, 9 August 1854 - 22 December 1854

This red notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s notes and travels from August 1854 to January 1855 whilst in Southern England after his return from Maderia. Lyell is in London, Liverpool, Mildenhall, Icklingham, and at Maidenhead on the way to Bowood. Key individuals in this notebook include Pedro Maffiote (geologist), Roderick Murchison (geologist), Edward Forbes (naturalist), Andrew Ramsay (geologist), Alcide d'Orbigny (naturalist), Georg Hartung (geologist), Charles Darwin (geologist and naturalist), and Joseph Dalton Hooker (botanist). Geological topics include Dogger Bank, the Shetland Islands, Bryazoe bark, Clypeaston, Grand Canary shells, Puy de Come, flint knappers of Icklingham, notes on eruption, geological time periods, minerals, fossils, insects in coal, Permian ice-cream, glaciers, sediments, and stratigraphy. This notebook also contains calculations, addresses, house prices, room sizes, bank house details and lists of copies of papers -as the Lyell's prepare to move house. Katharine Lyell's 'Life Letters & Journals' includes a letter to his sister Caroline, dated January 1855 in which Lyell buys a 16 year lease on new house [LLJ p. 202]. The final pages are lists of mems [memorandums]. There are also a few German phrases in this notebook.

[From 'Index Book No. 3' reference Coll-203/A5/5 [was 3] p. 19-20]
p.3 Absence of fish bones in dredgings anywhere McAndrew
p.31 Palaeonisci have insectivorous teeth [fish deleted, and teeth is on the actual], says Egerton
[p.31] Ice on Snowden 1300 feet thick, says Ramsay
p.68 Elephant & Bos primigenius [Aurochs], at Green Street Green [Bromley]
p.70
p.72
p.83 Basalt wanting says Dr Andrews in North of Ireland. All dolerite
p.84 Coal, rolled pebbles of in art[icle?.] strata of Wales, Dela Beche
p.84 Coal, antiquity of, proven by Logan’s Cannal coal boulder in coal
98. 25 recent reputed species says Hooker, belong to Pteris aquilina [bracken]
Summarised content:
p.1 London August 9th, 1854, £1400 including the fixtures, furniture in the house. p.2 calculations, addresses, dogger bank
p.3 August 11th Mr McAndrew dredging great fishing grounds of the Shetland Island, Dogger Bank, E Forbes, eruption, fish
p.4 E Forbes as to Bryozoa Bark? [sic] of British Museum, also on Clypeaster, Grand Canary shells and Bone bed of N Ireland and Faroe – Send by first Africa steamer from Santa Cruz Tenerife [Pedro] Maffiote
p.5 calculations – piano, looking glasses, memorandum, e.g., copy of Manual to Mr Shaw
p.6 Siluria, Cambria
p.7 Berlin – ‘Befordete Rückschritt, Gehemmte fortschritt the encouraged backward step, the impeded forward step’ p.8 addresses George Milner Stephen
p.9 ‘to be bound’ [linked to Lyell’s bound offprints?], memorandum Devonian, E Forbes, SIluria p.174 thickness of Llandeilo Group is 20,000 feet in N Wales
p.10 August 27th, 1854 – address artist (wood cuts) J F Fowler Exmouth Market [Clerkenwell], Llandeilo
p.11 Siluria, upper Cambrian was first suggested by Mr Salter, Caradoc or middle Siluria adopted in the survey WJ Salter, thickness of Llandeilo - with calculations
p.12 memorandum Manual – Lonsdale, Sir H Holland, Dr Fleming, Prof Williamson
Write to Rev Jones about insertion of Russian fish etc. into Devonian, write to Courtnay
p.13 memorandum – includes C Darwin German Diety, Murchison, Drift paper, solicitors of D. [Duke] of Portland p.14 address: W.H Bailey – ‘Richmond painted 3000 portraits in about 20 years – calculations. M Lauzet, son in law of Mrs Chapman, Paris
p.15 Dr Krantz, dealer in minerals and fossil, Bonn addresses Salter
p. 374 Manual – Huxley to be told that this is Henslow’s opinion of conifera as well as Hooker’s
p.16 found by one M Alluin [possibly Jean-Nicolas Allion], in Montmarte gyps[um] but doubted by Faujas – 2 big bones
p.17 memorandum includes Delesse
p.18 Repeat of quote – with changed details - about Richmond, portrait painter. Houses
p.20 11 Hartley St – measurements of
p.22 for Liverpool, Hartung letters, Madeira and Tenerife section drawing map, Robert McAndrew address. Liverpool – Antonia – phrase in German “it is not raining but it is not heavy.”
p.24 Sir Charles Wood 60 copies, Harkness, Binney on James Nasmyth lunar world, [Jenkin?] Cambrian rocks Wicklow p.26 Lowest Thuringia Silurian says Murchison
p.28 E. Forbes on species, phrase in German “ich glaube dass es wind die sonne herauskommen, kam die nicht noch aus” [I believe that the sun will come out, if it hasn't come out yet], South of Jordon Hill Maderia
p.29 Sept 22 1854 Liverpool Mr Miller Esq, Treasurer of Watt Institution Bank of Scotland Dundee – promised by letter to send duplicate specimen for Watt Institution”
p.30 Darwin the originator of Foliation theory. Note 22 – another German phrase “ nein ich glaube dass es regnet, es ist sehr triube - x es siehlsetius as freundlichen aus est ist sehn windig” [No, I think it's raining, it's very turbulent - x it's kind of a surprise, it's very windy]. Sedgwick of Cleavage
p.31 Insects in coal, Ramsay Permian ice action, glacial breccia
p.32 Welsh glacier, latitude, Eocene, Podolia
p.34 September 23rd, 1854, Archiae, last vote of History analysis of Alcide D’Orbigny 5th volume – Sketch sediment, stratigraphy
p.36 sediment Llandeilo, omitted beds
p.38 sketch showing Rhenish Massif geological composition, with notes on German people thereafter, including Adolph Schwarzenberg and Heinrich [Renfae?] 1854, and Perthes in Gotha 1854 and Schropp Berlin
p.39 copy of Manual sent to Philiips, Schoppe map divisions of
p.40 [with] Sir R. Murchison Liverpool, [Geology Section of the British Association] September 25th, 1854, Azoic beds of Bohemia, Primordial zone, Cambria Saxony, Saxony Siluria
p.41 continues, Hartz [sic Harz] [Gresky? Jiesky? ] of Ilsenberg has collected Silurian fossils of the Hartz [sic Harz] mountains
p.42 Geology Society, Hartz beds, 40 plants, R. Richter of Saalfield, discovered older land plants in Cypridina schefa on the Saal
p.43 Bleiberg Carinthian Alps. Mountain limestone 50 species, 30 of them known carboniferous species, traces of Siluria, a break not found in England, lower carboniferous, peninsula. Sketch
p.45 Ludvig, Ramsay, fossil under rocks
p.46 May Hill Group, base of Silurian – Sedgewick. Permian Ice
p.47 Azores, 40 species marine shell common to Spain or Madeira or the Canaries, land shells common to Madeira and Canaries, Ramsay – Forfarshire glaciers Ramsay
p.48 Tennant “fir oligiste” [for oil man] Ca2 03 – CaO – “left off at p. 7 Delesse’. Then notes on South Africa, “Captain Garden brought Prof. Forbes - specimens (Dr. Hanger dead) from Africa of shells & bones”
p.49 drawing – mouth of River Dee to Liverpool [“fault in the town”], beds of New Red dipping East Section, Permian 1000ft Coal, Mancunian thickness of New Red from 600 to 800 in the promontory described
p.50 Sinking Down of shore of Leasowe [Wirral] cause of (Mr. [John] Cunningham)
p.52 Pendleton near Manchester 60ft high Sigillaria, channel in trunk – with sketches and other species named, ‘Weston foot-prints'
p.53 Glossop, or Tintwistle, Derbyshire with plant sketches, and Agamica Muricata [sic Annona muricata?] Australia, with a sketch [unclear as to what of, could be North Anglesey coastline.]
p.52 - 58 sketches -
p.57 With Binney to Cheatham hill [Cheetham], Burdiehouse near Edinburgh – plant species – Stigmaria
Lepidodendron. Wiggan [Wigan] coalfield. Hooker admired Burdiehouse branches
p.58 With Binney. Great fault 3500 f near Manchester, passing thro’ coal and new red, Halonia – bundle of vessels. Volkmannia from Ardwick coal measures, [Le[onard] Horner] 82 Brook Road, Manchester. Prof Williamson’s paper on Calamites. Also notes on walnut wood and Drift
p.60 Oolite Iron Ore – to be added to 6th Edition of Manual 1856, calculations, memorandum, Hartung to have paper on Maderia for Lister, Azevedo and others – October 3rd, 1854. Mem –1) Murray – Principles copy of for Azevedo – about travelling & copywright [sic] in Germany. 2) Stables
p.62 October 6th Instructions re R Jones “shut D.D. taken by R. Jones to get [facsimile?] done” - and mems for Hartung. Sketch of strata
p.63 Hartung col[oure]d view of Caldera, height of foreground, Mr. Thompson at Zool[ogical] Gardens – kitten 3 months. Memorandum with calculations as to stables and rents
. p.64 Queries Hartung, Madeira and Canaries, October 19th Murchison to Naturalists Club
p.65-66 Addresses, calculations – Ogden [Haubad?] Sa.Ca [Madeira?], Prof Schegel Leyden, Joanna Junghuber, dimension of writing table and looking glass – goes on to p. 68
p.68 Calculations on looking glass, Green Street Green – location and finds
p.69 ‘To Darwin’ [list of items sent to, or shown]
p.70 [Green Street Green] Elephant 5ft below the flint gravel and chalk, Eocene, J Hooker
p.72 Oct. 27/ 45 [sic 54] sketches of fieldwork at Farnborough “A is ploughed field and the 2 shells turned up on surface”, at High Elms [home of Lubbock] and Lyell sketches location of finds, with notes on Eocene pebbles, clinkers, abraded flints
p.73 October 27th with J Hooker, orchid specimens in Brazil sent by Schoumberg [sic Schomburgk] three genus of orchid in one stem, “an ugly fact”. Chalk flint Downs, C Darwin, glacial flints
p.74 Down, Qy how far would decay of chalk cover the stratification to be destroyed, idea of glaciers – sketch of vertical flints
p.75 -76 October 20th Down, Queries Darwin. Athenaeum no. 1408 p.1276, references Rev J [Savage?] Mr. Reid of York, Stonesfield Stereognathus Rev Dennis. Mr Whymper Engraver 20 Canterbury Place, Lambeth
p.77 With C Darwin and J Hooker, notes also Revd. Mr. Fred. Gardiner, 7 Caroline St. Bedford Square
p.78 James Tennant, then follows prices and calculations relating to House, fixtures, and furnishings - continues on next page ‘servants furniture’
p.80 Grand Canary Lunulite, shells, Eocene, no basalt - refers to Busk, Hébert. Delesse response to Dr. Andrews on Giant’s Causeway all dolerite. Dicynodon Cape of Good Hope, freshwater thickness 10,000ft Mr Bain
p.81 Dalkeith reptile of Coal – large hand-like (in size) footprints in the coal sandstone D[uke] of Buccleuch – Major James. Porto Santo mem – learn from Hébert how to make casts of shells
p.82 November 2nd, with Waterhouse, Stereonagthus oolitiens from Stonesfield “there must be bones of extremities in same rock tho’ none get recognised” with sketch stuck onto page
p.83 memorandum, Darwin as to Mantell in New Zealand & address, November 5th extract from Dr. Andrews’ letter to Mr Horner, basalt reduced to fine powder
p.84-85 November 7th with Delabeche. In Wales, fragments of coal with unusual fraction, 2 inch rounded pebbles, Forest of Deal coal, sand often fills the cavity
p.86 reference to George Hall – re legal bills – and payments to C. Kerr 1854/54
p. 87 list of tasks - “Faraday call at and leave card” Marion Bell, Murray, Dr. Lyon Playfair, Lt. Col. Proby
Cautley, Philos Club Thursday 23rd J Hooker on dicot leaves from Disco Island, Greenland. Notes on illustrations for M.S. - “get it drawn by Bone” and further mems
p.88 - 90 November 15th letter from Henry L Watts, West Hoathley, Sussex - M.S. poem found. Canada bonds and value. More financial calculations, including finances on lease of house etc. Boston City
p.91 53 Hartley St – House Duty £185, Property Tax £185
p.92 Mems, plus books returned to G.S.
p.93 Lecture R. Institution, promised for April 17, 1854, origin of certain trains of erratic blocks on the western borders of Massachusetts U.S. Memorandum – to Dawson, and another list, relating to Hamilton and the Belgian paper, and Mr Page
p.94 Memorandum – Dundee Museum, Herr Balon, Mrs Power - list of items to take to Mildenhall. List of names. p.96 December 9th, Mildenhall, sketch of Warren Hill, clay, angular chalk, broken shells
p.97 Sketch – Mildenhall, West Row, red and white chalk, shells
p.98 December 16th, memorandum, Mildenhall
p.99 West Row, red chalk, Mildenhall
p.100 drawing of cliff face, with person in as scale – Chalk marl grey like I[sle] of Wight – no flints, stratigraphy labelled
p.102 Red Chalk, into as well as grey, faces, dip, southern end, drawing, A more angular than B p.103 Mildenhall Dec 12th, plus notes on Orchids of Brazil
p.104 Memorandum on map of Madeira, Wafers, Antique fossils, bring back the flint cross of C.B[unbury]. London 13th Dec, mems – on wood cuts for Lee, and map
p.105 14th Dec, sent to print for p.1-p.50 peak of Tenerife. Walked Mildenhall to Barton Mills – Chalk Flint knappers, large flints for Icklingham, Henry Carson of Icklingham – with sketch of flint outline
p.106 sketch - 15th Dec, Barton Hill, drift glacier, chalk, flints, platform
p.107 Drawing – Mildenhall, Icklingham, stratigraphy, chalk, fossil, Barton Hill, quarry
p.108 15th December, Mildenhall, ‘on the farm of Mr. Colson’ also references Mr. Firman, and Mr. Robert Guilt, buried crater p.558
p.109-111 16th December, Mildenhall, Icklingham Erratic block - largest one ever heard of was at Canada Farm, near Icklingham, with small sketch. Also notes on the great flint knappers at Brandon, Henry Curzon. Flints still used by Turks and exchanged for caps by the Russians
p.112 Icklingham, chalk flints, memorandum including lignite of Madeira to Quekett “...all equal in the next world but I do wish to be respectable in this”
p.114 Icklingham, species, platform of chalk with flints, ice-action, glacial drift
p.116 Lapland, gravel quarries, Eocene, Drift Isleham, Errata
p.118 December 18th Clay pit, Barton Mills & Tuddenham, High Lodge J. H. Huxley address, memorandum – includes get original of Deville on Fogo & Teneriffe [sic Tenerife]
p.119-120 December 13th, Manual copies sent to, Omitted Geological Society London, Succina Oblonga, and its survival. Grays Thurrock [Essex]. Mentions Austen and Prestwich
p.121 December 22nd 1854, memorandum, letters to Mr. Poole, Dr. Fleming, Prof Nicol, Mr. Spencer p.122-123 December 25th ,1854, London, specimens sent to Delesse
p.124-125 Mem, deferred rents and calculations, including personal finances
p.126 Mess. James Capel, Coutts, mem, “to invent wood cut with explanation ...Puy de Come” , draft of speech in favour of unknown person, calculations
p.127-128 lists of memorandum –includes coal specimen to Quekett addresses, ‘boxes to be moved to dryer quarters’, Vieweg translation, Bowood Geology
p.129 January 3rd 1854 [sic 1855 ?], addresses Daniel Sharpe, note on Geology London Clay, near Charing, copy of Mannual to Dr. Grant
p.130 January 1848, December 1846, addresses, Lauzel, C Wentworth Dilke, mems –to Hartung, Manual sent to Rupert Jones
p.131-132 list of things to take to Bowood, includes sheets of Manual to index, notebook of 1825, MS copy of manual, maps, papers, new notebook, NY report. January 5th 1854, [sic 1855?] Maidenhead notes on train on way to Bowood, with sketch showing chalk beds, Maidenhead village Thames and flint gravel, observations on Farringdon Road