Madeira and Canary Islands, 1853 - 1856
Scope and Contents
Includes work on Fossil plants of Santa Jorge, Madeira by Heer [is Lyell's writing], Index list to Canary Island specimens of rocks - Lanzarote, Fuerventura, Tenerife, Madeira, Grand Canary; Georg Hartung's notes on Porto Santo and Madeira [possibly Bunbury's writing]; Fossil plants from the Lignite beds of Santa Jorge [possibly Mary Lyell's writing]; titles of plants by Hartung; Hartung's notes on Serra d'Agoa, Pico Serrido, Meio Medade, S. Vincent, including drawings and Funchal Directory map [undated]; manuscript in Mary's writing on Palma for the Manual [1855 edition?]; map 'Proof Physical Map of the Island of Madeira' by JM Zeigler from Captain Vidal. [was GEN1999/8/1].
Dates
- Creation: 1853 - 1856
Creator
- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) (Person)
- Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) (Person)
- Hartung, Georg, 1821 - 1891 (German geologist) (Person)
- Heer, Oswald, 1809-1883 (Swiss botanist, palaeontologist, entomologist | Professor of Botany, University of Zurich) (Person)
- Ziegler, Jakob Melchior, 1801 – 1883 (Swiss geographer, cartographer, publisher and politician) (Person)
Full Extent
1 folder
Language of Materials
English
Geographic
Repository Details
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