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Notebook No.56, 20 May 1835-17 April 1837
Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 3
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/56
Scope and Contents
This black leather notebook contains Lyell's notes on discussions with Richard Owen and William Lonsdale. Subjects are highly diverse and notes are made predominantly in ink. The index is organised pages related to dicussion with Owen and Lonsdale and is written in the last few pages of the book. The front cover is blank. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end...
Dates:
20 May 1835-17 April 1837
Notebook No.74, March 1839- May 1839
Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 3
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/74
Scope and Contents
This red leather notebook include Charles Lyell's specimen lists and queries for colleagues. There are notes on Crag fossils, on p.57 Lyell discusses reasons for confusion over identification of species. On pp.90-91 are Lyell's notes from his visit to Suffolk to examine Crag, 17 April. The index is on p. 141, inside back cover. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning...
Dates:
March 1839- May 1839
Notebook No.75, 3 May 1839-4 June 1839
Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 3
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/75
Scope and Contents
This red leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes and contain specimen lists, queries for colleagues, and notes on publication of new editions of Principles of Geology and Elements of Geology. Subjects are chiefly notes on fossil shells of Crag. The index is on p. 138-139. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from digital...
Dates:
3 May 1839-4 June 1839
Notebook No.78, 12 August 1839-17 October 1839
Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 3
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/78
Scope and Contents
This dark maroon coloured leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's specimen lists, to do lists, notes from colleagues publications, sketches, many blank pages. Miscellaneous notes; pp.21-22 - References to Darwin's 'Glen Roy' paper. Front and back cover are blank, index is p. 115-6. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from...
Dates:
12 August 1839-17 October 1839
Notebook No.79, 21 October 1839- February 1840
Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 4
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/79
Scope and Contents
This dark leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes in pencil and ink, field notes, thinking and 'to do' lists. There are many references to Darwin; 'Elements' published - and page 79 includes workings on edits. Index is in written in alphabetical order at the back of the notebook. The front and back covers are blank. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and...
Dates:
21 October 1839- February 1840
Notebook No.80, 5 February 1840-25 June 1840
Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 4
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/80
Scope and Contents
This brown leather notebooks contains inventories of shells and fossils, Lyell's thinking on geology. There are mentions of Darwin and Playfair; London and France; References to Darwin, Tertiary shells, etc. The index is on p. 113-116. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from digital surrogates using the platform Transkribus....
Dates:
5 February 1840-25 June 1840
Notebook No.87, February 1841- June 1841
Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 4
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/87
Scope and Contents
This dark leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes which appear to be continuation of discussion on Touraine shells, notes of list of books to go to America, notes on correspondence sent and received, and notes on lectures. On p. 106 Lyell makes reference to Timothy Abbot Conrad's New York Geological Survey of 1840. The covers of the notebook are blank, the index is written on the last pages of the book. The following table of...
Dates:
February 1841- June 1841
Notebook No.88, 16 June 1841-23 July 1841
Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 4
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/88
Scope and Contents
This green leather notebook contains diverse notes by Lyell, including lists, observations, sketches, and plans for future tours to Wales and North America. Notes are in pencil and ink. There is a sketch of a compass p. 21, and a list of books on American geology at the Geological Society of London on p. 101. The index is the last three pages of the notebook, both covers are unmarked. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words,...
Dates:
16 June 1841-23 July 1841
Notebook No.98, February 1842- April 1842
Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 4
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/98
Scope and Contents
This brown leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes from his travels through Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to New York. Notes are in pencil and ink and are primarily daily journal entries, lists, and sketches. The covers are plain, and the edges of the pages are tipped in green ink. There is a plan for New York on p. 37. The index is located at the back of the notebook. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied...
Dates:
February 1842- April 1842
Notebook No.117, 1 August 1844-18 September 1844
Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 5
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/117
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 1 August to 18 September 1844 while in London. It then continues through 26 September to 2 October in York. He visits T.S. Spedding at Mirehouse on Bassenthwaite. The final section of the notebook, through 21 October, pertains to Lyell and Michael Faraday’s participation in an inquiry of the 1844 Haswell coal mine explosion that killed 95 people. Notes are in a mixture of pencil and ink. The notebook index is located in the back of the...
Dates:
1 August 1844-18 September 1844