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Notebook No.257, September 1869 - April 1870

 Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 9
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/257

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Transcription note:

This dark green notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 10 September 1869 to 23 April 1870, and continues from the previous volume (256) starting in Scotland. Lyell travels from the Scottish Highlands, to Glasgow and Dumfries, then onto Devonshire, Suffolk, Somerset, and finishes back in Devon. Lyell attends meetings of various Societies, and writes about his correspondence with and the work of other notable researchers of the time.

Transcription note:

This notebook was written by Charles, Mary and Arabella Buckley. The index is written entirely by Buckley, and is located in the back of the notebook on pages 177-179. Buckley sometimes phonetically spells words and mislabels page numbers; corrections have been included.

Lyell's own index

1869 [double underlined] Index.
p. 1 Caledonian Canal
p. 2 Erratic of Old Red
p. 4 Torrent deltas
p. 12. 16. 18-30 Glen roy parallel roads
p. 12 Ben Nevis moraines
p. 31 Measurements of parallel roads
p. 34 Glaciation
p. 38 Preglacial Glen Roy
p. 38 Loch Laggan
p. 42 Climate of Parallel Roads
p. 48 Loch Brandy
p. 52 Letters to Mr Hughes
p. 55 p. 55 Carrington [note this appears of pages 54 & 55]
p. 57. 58 Kilmaurs elephant [note this appears on pages 56 & 58]
p. 58 Prof Young & Clyde canoes
p. 59 Campsie Hill Glaciation [sic Campsie Fells]
p. 62 Glasgow. Uniformity of Scotch Hill
p. 64 Dumfries
p. 68 Carruthers at Brit[ish] Museum on Ulodendron
p. 69 Carpenter – Deep-sea Temperature at the Faroe islands
p. 72 Ice-scooping Lake Superior
p. 73 Alex Agassiz – Deep-sea dredging & internal temperature [note this appears on pages 73 and 74]
p. 75 Bromley dicotyledonous leaf in chalk
p. 77 Authors Copies of St. [sic Student’s] Elements [note this appears on page 76 and page 183]
p. 77 Toxopneustes of Butley
p. 80 Bury St Edmunds Geology [note this appears on page 79]
p. 81 Bridlington Beds
p. 81 Norwich Crag
p. 82 Speeton Clay
p. 83 Heligoland
p. 84 Carpenter – deep-sea soundings
p. 87 With Mr Geikie [note this appears on page 86]
p. 87 Glasgow Till [note this appears on page 86] – Erosion of Lake Basins
p. 93 Etheridge on Devonian fossils
p. 95 to 125 Notes on North Devon. Sir W Guise & Mr Symonds
p. 128 Cannington Park Limestone
p. 126 Devonshire Town with Lady Lyell & Mr Hughes
p. 132-137 Dunster To Dulverton
p. 134 Porlock valley lies
p. 139 Edward Wunsch [sic Wünsch] on Arran
p. 140 Porlock & Linton [sic Lynton]
p. 147 Section fr. [sic from] Foreland to Sylee Abbey [sic South of Lee Abbey]
p. 148 Valley of the Rocks
p. 148 Fenestella, Brachiopods etc
p. 150 Lea [sic Lee] Abbey Park
p. 153 Sec. from Woodabay [sic Wooda Bay, now named Woody Bay] to Martinhoe Common
p. 154 Dunston [sic Dunster] to Dulverton
p. 154 Slaty cleavage below Whitestone
p. 156 Lea [sic Lee] Bay cleavage
p. 158 Lea [sic Lee] Bay to Mortehoe
p. 160 Woollacombe [sic Woolacombe]
p. 162 Chambercombe limestone quarry
-- New Road quarry
p. 164 Bittadon granite quarry
p. 168 Coddon [sic Codden] Hill Millstone grit
p. 170 Venn quarry – Braunton – Baggy Point Beds [note this appears on pages 168 & 170]
p. 173-175 Croyde & Baggy Point [note this appears on pages 172 & 174]
p. 176 Woolcombe [sic Woolacombe] sands

Scope and Contents

Transcribed by Remedios Ayton, June 2024, and catalogued by Pamela McIntyre, Strategic Projects Archivist, July 2024.

Dates

  • Creation: September 1869 - April 1870

Creator

Language of Materials

English

Full Extent

183 folios

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91 Leaves

Full Extent

1 volume