Letters from Home-Milne, David to Charles Lyell, 24 August 1871 - 9 May 1874

Lyell's own summarises are given in quotation marks:
1) Milne Home Aug '71 Macclesfield Shells'
2) Milne Home- The pact-Roman use in Firth of Forth, June 1872'. The letter discusses Home's work on a discovery of a stone covered in Roman Sculpture at Bo'ness on the Forth Estuary.
3) Letter contains information about the Roman tablet found about 15 feet above the Kish Water Mark.
4) Milne Home 'on Post Roman use of land, Sept 5 1872'. Milne-Home to visit where the Roman tablet was found on request of Lyell.
5) Milne Home hasn't visited the tablet yet and has highlighted to surveyors, problems with the OS maps that were produced. He discusses his intention to give notice to the Royal Society of Edinburgh about his work with the tablet.
6) Milne Home,' Meridian Sea'. Milne Home's response to Lyell about the drainage of the sea and the Glen Roy problem.
7) Milne Home, Nov 12 1872. Milne Home visited Bo'ness where the tablet was found and his belief that it originally stood there. He suggests Lyell look at the work of some American geologists that has been published.
8) Milne Home, 10 Dec. 72. Milne Home to show his findings to the Royal Society but thinks Geikie will find fault with his work. Also discussion of the upheaval of land in the East coast of Scotland since the Romans.
9) Milne Home sent his papers on the Roman Wall and asks for advice on the statements he makes.
10) Milne Home has written to the Society of Antiquaries for permission to use the tablet for his work. Also discussion of the Glen Roy question and the previously mentioned OS maps being fixed.
11) Letter to Lyell that encloses a letter about the use of a woodcut of the Roman tablet from the secretary of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries.
12) Milne Home's paper was read at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Geikie did not attend and disagrees with Milne Home's theories.
13) Milne Home, 'Thanks for books'. Discussion of Geikie's angry letter to Milne Home stating that he was not told about his paper before it was read at the Society so he could make his own statement. He couldn't attend due to a dinner engagement.
14) Milne Home 1872-3, letters 'on non use of land in Post-Roman times & cliche of Roman Slab'. This is the letter mentioned at number 11 from John Stuart at General Register House, Edinburgh. Lyell is able to use the woodcut in his work at a cost of five guineas