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Letters from Hopkins, William to Charles Lyell, 6 January 1840 - 5 May 1864

 File — Box: Box 1.7
Identifier: Coll-203/1/136
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z, including one ‘Miscellaneous’ section within the 'M' series. Each correspondent has been assigned a file number – there may be several folders within that file, evidencing the longevity and depth of the relationship between Lyell and the correspondent - for example his brother in law Charles Bunbury.Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the...
Dates: 6 January 1840 - 5 May 1864

Letters from Horsfield, Thomas to Charles Lyell, 7 February 1839 - 3 July 1854

 File — Box: Box 1.7
Identifier: Coll-203/1/137
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z, including one ‘Miscellaneous’ section within the 'M' series. Each correspondent has been assigned a file number – there may be several folders within that file, evidencing the longevity and depth of the relationship between Lyell and the correspondent - for example his brother in law Charles Bunbury.Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the...
Dates: 7 February 1839 - 3 July 1854

Letters from Hughes, Thomas Mckenny to Charles Lyell, 1 June 1874

 File — Box: Box 1.7
Identifier: Coll-203/1/138
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z, including one ‘Miscellaneous’ section within the 'M' series. Each correspondent has been assigned a file number – there may be several folders within that file, evidencing the longevity and depth of the relationship between Lyell and the correspondent - for example his brother in law Charles Bunbury.Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the...
Dates: 1 June 1874

Letters from Hull, Edward to Charles Lyell, 16 May 1856 - 8 March 1876

 File — Box: Box 1.7
Identifier: Coll-203/1/139
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z, including one ‘Miscellaneous’ section within the 'M' series. Each correspondent has been assigned a file number – there may be several folders within that file, evidencing the longevity and depth of the relationship between Lyell and the correspondent - for example his brother in law Charles Bunbury.Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the...
Dates: 16 May 1856 - 8 March 1876

Letters from Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson to Charles Lyell, 24 June 1865 - 28 May 1866

 File — Box: Box 1.7
Identifier: Coll-203/1/140
Scope and Contents

Large Maps of America (Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico).

Dates: 24 June 1865 - 28 May 1866

Letters from Hunt, Thomas Sterry to Charles Lyell, 15 January 1856 - April 1871

 File — Box: Box 1.7
Identifier: Coll-203/1/141
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z, including one ‘Miscellaneous’ section within the 'M' series. Each correspondent has been assigned a file number – there may be several folders within that file, evidencing the longevity and depth of the relationship between Lyell and the correspondent - for example his brother in law Charles Bunbury.Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the...
Dates: 15 January 1856 - April 1871

Letters from Jackson, Charles Thomas to Charles Lyell, 22 March 1845 - 20 September 1866

 File — Box: Box 1.7
Identifier: Coll-203/1/142
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z, including one ‘Miscellaneous’ section within the 'M' series. Each correspondent has been assigned a file number – there may be several folders within that file, evidencing the longevity and depth of the relationship between Lyell and the correspondent - for example his brother in law Charles Bunbury.Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the...
Dates: 22 March 1845 - 20 September 1866

Letters from James, Sir Henry to Charles Lyell, 24 October 1863 - 24 February 1866

 File — Box: Box 1.7
Identifier: Coll-203/1/143
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z, including one ‘Miscellaneous’ section within the 'M' series. Each correspondent has been assigned a file number – there may be several folders within that file, evidencing the longevity and depth of the relationship between Lyell and the correspondent - for example his brother in law Charles Bunbury.Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the...
Dates: 24 October 1863 - 24 February 1866

Letters from James, W to Charles Lyell, 21 May 1858

 File — Box: Box 1.7
Identifier: Coll-203/1/144
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Original letter listed in this arrangement as W James, but the writing is very similar to H James, though signature is different. Letter in reponse to Lyell, on education, the relevance of Classical and general Architecture, and his pleasure at learning University of London is proposing a degree in Science, under the group Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Geology and Natural History.

Dates: 21 May 1858

Letters from Jamieson, Thomas Francis to Charles Lyell, 14 May 1860 - 22 February 1870

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Identifier: Coll-203/1/145
Scope and Contents

Letters to Darwin fro Lyell within the Jamieson folders on Moel Tryfan and Glen Roy 1861.

Dates: 14 May 1860 - 22 February 1870

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Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to 413
Etna, Mount (Italy) 31
Geology 29
Shells 28
Canary Islands 24
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Fossils 23
Volcanoes 22
Madeira Islands 20
Angus (Scotland) 19
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence from 15
Geological Cross Sections 14
Chalk 13
Fossil shells 13
Formations (Geology) 12
Limestone 12
Lava Flows 11
Earthquakes 10
Elephant bones 10
Sketches, Geological 10
Climate 9
Coal 9
Eruptions 9
Auvergne (France) 8
Falun (Sweden) 8
Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia, Canada) 7
Loire River Valley (France) 7
Sicily (Italy) 7
Alabama (United States) 6
Georgia (United States) 6
Mastodon 6
Mississippi River (United States) 6
Nova Scotia (Canada) 6
Puy-de-Dôme (France : Department) 6
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Slavery--United States 6
Bones 5
Boston (Massachusetts, United States) 5
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Forfar, Forfarshire, Scotland 5
Geology, Stratigraphic Eocene 5
Geology, Stratigraphic Tertiary 5
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Granite 5
Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 5
Miocene Epoch 5
Mollusks 5
New York City (New York, United States) 5
Paris, France 5
Sea Monsters 5
Anthracite coal 4
Atmospheric Pressure, Measurement 4
Bordeaux, France 4
Caves 4
Falkland Islands 4
Huron, Lake (Michigan, United States and Ontario, Canada) 4
Iceland 4
Lectures and Lecturing 4
Loess 4
Maastricht, Netherlands 4
Madeira (Madeira Islands) 4
Marl 4
New Hampshire (United States) 4
Norwich (England) 4
Nummulites 4
Paris (France) 4
Paris basin (France) 4
Peat 4
Sweden 4
United States -- Ohio 4
Volcanological Research 4
Academic Writing 3
Amiens (France) 3
Basalt 3
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Canada -- Ontario -- Niagara 3
Coastal Landforms 3
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Echinus -- Sea Urchin 3
Eifel (Germany) 3
England -- Cornwall 3
Foraminifera 3
Fossil Plants 3
Geological Mapping 3
Geological Maps 3
Geology, Stratigraphic Miocene 3
Gneiss 3
Hippopotamus (Genus), Fossil 3
Lake District (England) 3
Las Palmas (Canary Islands) 3
Lava 3
Magnesian limestone 3
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Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 987
Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 175
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 40
Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854 (British naturalist, conchologist and artist) 18
Hartung, Georg, 1821 - 1891 (German geologist) 15
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Blackadder, William, 1782-1860 (Surveyor, Architect from Glamis, Forfarshire) 14
Gemmellaro, Gaetano Giorgio, 1832-1904 (Italian geologist) 14
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 14
Wood, Searles Valentine, 1830-1884 (geologist) 14
Deshayes, Gerard Paul, 1795-1875 (French geologist and conchologist) 13
Bayfield, Henry Wolsey, Captain, 1795-1885 (British naval officer and surveyor) 12
Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 (English biologist) 12
Agassiz, Jean Louis, 1807-1873 (Swiss-American naturalist and professor of natural history) 11
Conrad, T.A., 1803-1877 (American paleontologist and malacologist) 11
Falconer, Hugh, 1808-1865 (palaeontologist and botanist) 11
Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) 11
Lonsdale, William L, 1794-1871 (English geologist and palaeontologist) 11
Buckley, Arabella Burton, 1840 – 1929 (Writer and Educator) 10
Bunbury, Sir Charles James Fox, 1809-1886 (8th Baronet of Barton Hall, Sussex (England) | English naturalist) 10
Gemmellaro, Carlo, 1787-1866 (Italian geologist) 10
Brongniart, Alexandre, 1770-1847 (French mineralogist, geologist and naturalist) 9
Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 (British botanist, explorer | Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew) 9
Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 9
Scrope, George Julius Poulett, 1797-1876 (geologist and political economist) 9
Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 (American geologist and chemist | Professor of Chemistry, Geology and Mineralogy in Yale College) 9
Waltershausen, Wolfgang Sartorius Von (German geologist) 9
Owen, David Dale, 1807-1860 (American geologist) 8
Polk, James Knox, 1795-1849 (11th President of the United States) 8
Woodward, Samuel Pickworth, 1821-1865 (English geologist and malacologist) 8
Archiac, Adolphe d', 1802-1868 (Vicomte d'Archiac | French geologist and palaeontologist) 7
Fleming, John, 1785 - 1857 (Free Church of Scotland minister, naturalist, zoologist, geologist) 7
Hall, James (Sir James Hall of Dunglass), 1761-1832 (Scottish geologist and geophysicist | 4th Baronet) 7
Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 (American scientist, educator and minister) 7
Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 (English obstetrician, geologist, paleontologist) 7
Prestwich, Sir Joseph, 1812-1896 (British geologist and businessman, Fellow of the Royal Society) 7
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 (Lawyer and Statesman) 7
Beck, Heinrich Henrichsen (1799-1863) 6
Buckland, William, 1784-1856 (English theologian, geologist) 6
Dujardin, Felix, 1801-1860 (French biologist) 6
Heer, Oswald, 1809-1883 (Swiss botanist, palaeontologist, entomologist | Professor of Botany, University of Zurich) 6
Orbigny, Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d', 1802-1857 (French naturalist) 6
Elie de Beaumont, Leonce, 1798-1874 (French geologist) 5
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (7th President of the United States) 5
Lartet, Edouard William, 1801-1871 (French geologist and paleontologist) 5
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist and professor of geology, University of Cambridge) 5
Sismonda, Angelo, 1807-1878 (Italian mineralogist and geologist) 5
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 (English Philosopher | Attorney General | Lord Chancellor of England) 4
Binney, Edward William, 1812­-1881 (geologist and founder Manchester Geological Society) 4
Bravard, Auguste, 1803 - 1861 (Engineer and Palaeontologist) 4
Carruthers, William, 1830-1922 (botanist, Keeper of the Department of Botany, British Museum) 4
Cuvier, Georges, 1769- 1832 (French zoologist and statesman) 4
Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 (American geologist, mineralogist, and naturalist) 4
Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle, 1795-1867 (English chemist, botanist, and geologist) 4
De la Beche, Thomas, 1796-1855 (English geologist, palaeontologist) 4
Delesse, Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph, 3 February 1817 – 24 March 1881 (French geologist and mineralogist) 4
Emmons, Ebenezer, 1799-1863 (American geologist and mountaineer) 4
Evans, Sir John, 1823-1908 (archaeologist and numismatist) 4
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (American politician, Unitarian pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator) 4
Geological Society of London (1807-:) 4
Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 (American naturalist, zoologist) 4
Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, 1769-1859 (German naturalist, geologist and explorer) 4
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 4
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (English biologist and anthropologist) 4
Jackson, Charles Thomas, 1805-1880 (American physician and scientist) 4
Kean, Charles, 1811-1868 (British actor) 4
Keilhau, Baltazar Mathias, 1797-1858 (Norwegian geologist) 4
Koch, Albert C., 1804 - 1867 (German/American naturalist, showman, and entrepreneur) 4
Lecoq, Henri, 1802-1871 (Botanist) 4
Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 4
Maffiote Arocha, Pedro, 1816-1870 (Professor of the Nautical School of Tenerife | Spanish architect) 4
Morris, John, 1810-1886 (English geologist) 4
Murchison, Charlotte, 1788-1869 (nee Hougin, geologist, wife of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison) 4
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 (British Conservative statesman | Prime Minister 1834-35, 1841-46 | Home Secretary 1822-27, 1828-30) 4
Redfield, William Charles, 1789-1857 (American meteorologist) 4
Rogers, Henry Darwin, 1808-1866 (American geologist | Professor of Natural History and Geology, University of Glasgow) 4
Story, Joseph, 1779-1845 (Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States) 4
Torell, Otto Martin, 1828 – 1900 (Swedish Naturalist and Geologist) 4
Unknown (Unknown) 4
Vibraye, Paul Hurault de, 8th Marquis de, 1809–1878 (French archaeologist) 4
Waterhouse, George Robert, 1810-1888 (naturalist) 4
Wigham, J.B. (1813-1851) 4
Winthrop, Robert Charles, 1809-1894 (American lawyer and philanthropist) 4
Wollaston, Thomas Vernon, 1822-1878 (English entomologist and malacologist) 4
Anthony, John Gould, 1804-1877 (American naturalist, mollusks) 3
Aymard, Auguste, 1808-1889 (Prehistorian and Paleontologist) 3
Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 (American historian, statesman and Democratic politician) 3
Barrande, Joachim, 1799-1883 (Geologist and Paleontologist) 3
Bigelow, Jabob, 1787 - 1879 (American physician. botanist and botanical illustrator) 3
Bouillet, Jean-Baptiste, 1799-1878 (Geologist, banker, ethnographer, genealogist and curator) 3
Bryce, James, 1806-1877 (Irish mathematician, naturalist and geologist) 3
Buch, Christian Leopold Von, 1774-1853 (German geologist, palaeontologist) 3
Campbell, George John Douglas, 1823-1900 (8th and 1st Duke of Argyll, British polymath and Liberal statesman) 3
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (historian, essayist and philosopher) 3
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 (American Unitarian preacher and theologian) 3
Charlesworth, Edward, 1813-1893 (English geologist and palaeontologist) 3
Cogswell, Joseph, 1786-1871 (American librarian, bibliographer and educator) 3
Cotting, John Ruggles, 1784-1867 (American chemist, geologist, and instructor) 3
Croizet, Jean-Baptiste, 1787-1859 (French priest and paleontologist) 3
Edmund, Ravenel, 1797-1871 (American physician, professor, plantation owner, and naturalist) 3
Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867 (English scientist) 3
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