Box Lyell Temp Box 1.22 (Formerly Gen 119)
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Correspondence and Papers concerning Sea Serpents, 1820-1848
Series — Box: Lyell Temp Box 1.22 (Formerly Gen 119)
Identifier: Coll-203/5 (Lyell 5)
Scope and Contents
Letters and Papers Concerning Sea Serpents consists of:
- notes and clippings regarding sightings of sea serpents (1820-1848)
- letters from Sir John William Dawson, John Fleming, William McGillivray, Alexander Gordon Melville, Patrick Neill, Colonel Parkins and George Robert Waterhouse regarding sea serpents (1845-1848)
Dates:
1820-1848
Notes on the New Zealand earthquake of 1855, c1855
Series — Box: Lyell Temp Box 1.22 (Formerly Gen 119)
Identifier: Coll-203/6 (Lyell 6)
Scope and Contents
Notes on the New Zealand Earthquake of 1855 consists of:
notes made by Lyell on the New Zealand earthquake of 1855 and a photocopied extract from Lyell's publication Principles of geology, or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology, ( 1867-1868) which relates to these...
Dates:
c1855
Miscellaneous Papers, 1831-1864
Series — Box: Lyell Temp Box 1.22 (Formerly Gen 119)
Identifier: Coll-203/7 (lyell 7)
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous Papers consists of:
address by Sir Charles Lyell on Charles Darwin receiving the Copley Medal (1864)
list of mollusca by Searles Valentine Wood
printed pages from an article or book in German, translated as 'Excerpts from Letters of Professor Fr. Hoffmann, incomplete. Also, pages detailing in German, Aetna area, the foot of the mountain at the Simeto Valley...
Dates:
1831-1864
Lectures on Geology, 1832-1833
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/8 (Lyell 8)
Scope and Contents
Lectures on geology consists of:
- manuscript lecture notes for lectures given at King's College London and the Royal Institution and a printed programme for a series of lectures given at King's College London in 1833 (1832-1833).
Dates:
1832-1833