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Miscellaneous papers, 1831-1864

 File — Box: Lyell Box 1.19 (Formerly Gen 117)
Identifier: Coll-203/7/2 (lyell 7)

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Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous Papers consists of:

  1. Address by Sir Charles Lyell on Charles Darwin receiving the Copley Medal (1864)
  2. List of mollusca by Searles Valentine Wood
  3. WIth a note titled 'Prof. Hoffmann on Palermo Caves etc. and translation’ there are pages from Chapter 2, Auszuge aus Briefen des Hrn. Professor Fr. Hoffmann [translated as 'Excerpts from Letters of Professor Fr. Hoffmann]. Loose and uncut pages detail in German the Aetna area, the foot of the mountain at the Simeto Valley from Catania to Aderno (south and southwest side) with Tertiary formations. The pages are with Lyell’s handwritten translation, titled 'Extracts from the letters of Professor Fr. Hartmann [sic] with the sections:
    I - from Catania of the 27 January 1831, page 361
    B Extract from a letter to Professor Link from Catania – 25 January 1831
    C 'Extract from a letter to Professor Weiss- from Syrakusa [sic] of the 28th March 1831,
    D 'To Professor Weiss from Catania 19th June 1831
  4. Miscellaneous notes c1852-1854. Includes letters from Airy, Melling, Col. Sykes and Searles Wood. List of fossils sent to Dr. Wael. Handwritten index [notes] to Bunsen's Iceland Volcanoes, 1846, and Bischoff's Volcanic Hot Springs. [previously GEN1999/8/4]
  5. Notes and tables by Henry Hicks on the Cambrian Genera of Species 1870 [was previously GEN1999/10/5]
  6. Notes for a reply to a letter from A.R. Wallace, 16 & 17 March1869 on lakes and elevation, and on Ice Scoping. Index for Mr Wallace's letter by Arabella Buckley [was previously GEN1999/10/4]
  7. Gallery Proofs of the Address of the Antiquity of Man and Lake Prasias. [was previously GEN1999/10/3]
  8. Two print copies of Lyell's Presidential Address to the British Association, Aberdeen, 15 September 1859 - one is stamp addressed to Leonard Horner at Sandown, Isle of Wight. Also version that appeared as in the Aberdeen Free Press newspaper 16 September 1859, and The Athenaeum 17 September 1859,
  9. Press Cuttings on speech delivered by Lyell at the [New York City] Crystal Palace Banquet, 1853 [was previously GEN1999/10/1]
  10. Miscellaneous notes including draft of a letter by Lyell, whilst in Philadelphia, newspaper cuttings ' for Manual' from the Bombay Times 19 July 1851. Offprint 'On a New Species of Eurypterus from the Old Red Sandstone, Herefordshire' by Rev. W.S. Symonds, 1857. Handwritten 'Index to M.S. of Lectures' 1845. Lithograph of Temple of Serapis, produced by Reeve Brothers, illustrated by Edward J. Anson, June 1836. Coloured illustration of 'Section of the Temple of Jupiter Serapis, Shewing the Successive Changes it has undergone' 1828, produced by Reeve Brothers, illustrated by C. Babbage. Two printed copies of 'Answer from Sir Charles Lyell, MA (Exeter Coll. Ovon) FRS President of the Geological Society, 24 June 1851, marked 'private', on university education. [Was previously GEN1999/10/7]

Dates

  • Creation: 1831-1864

Creator

Language of Materials

English

German

Full Extent

10 folders