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A collection of three letters with an illustration sent by Lucas Barrett from Cambridge on bird bones and whales. The letters refer to bird bones that are crucial in understanding developed bird wings. The first letter has an illustration of a bird metacarpus by Barrett (May-November 1858). Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Bird's bone from upper Green Sand
2) Fossil bird upper Gr[een]. S[an]d. also Whales from Gr[een].
3) Bird bones in Kimmeridge Clay.

Scope and Contents Summarised by Lyell as 1) Captain Bayfield. Cliffs of sand and clay of Lake Erie 2) transport of rocks by icebergs etc. fossils of Beaufort formation 3) Boulders 4) mingling of Tert[iary]and Recent shells - ballast with fossils from English strata thrown into St. Lawrence. Recent and Tert[iary] shells sent home. Boulders 5) List of Genera (according to Lamarck) found by Captain Bayfield in the Gulf and River St Lawrence 6) Contortion in sand hills carried by...

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Dr Beck on Recent & Fossil Conchology – Copenhagen 1837. Geography of Shells
Notes from Henrik Henriksen Beck listing common Genera of marine animals by geographical zones. In these notes, Beck mainly lists mollusks in the Arctic Sea. Other zones such as the Atlantic Sea and the northern hemisphere are also featured in the list.

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Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Purbeck Oolite
2) Purbeck Dirt bed - December 12th day of finding the fossil mammal's jaw.

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Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Priority as to division of Upper and Lower Cambrian
2) Ice Scooping of Lakes
3) Talk with Jamieson on Glacial Periods and thanks for [book] Students Elements
4) On Geikies Ice Age.

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On Helix Tiarella and habitats of other land shells published as from [?] Canaries.

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Letters relating to the Fossil Man of St Denise sent to Lyell, summarised as:
1) Fossils of Freshwater in Velay [Caymans?] Anthracotheriinae in wood dilat:. ruminants etc.
2) Coloured hand drawn map showing locations around Denise.

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Original letter in German with English translation. Original summary is "Beyrich May 1857 criticisms on supplement Barrande's Colonies".

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Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Loess Fossil Man Caves of Meuse [Belgium]. Folio 286 is a map of the site
2) Leyden Coberg Human jaw Crahayes [sic] report
3) Maestricht human skulls
4) On cave-bones etc. 1860-1.

Scope and Contents Summarised by Lyell as: 1) Binney on Calamites'- mentions Binney's discussion of "Calamites", the letter also contains a small note that has illustration of "woody cylinder of a calamite" 2) EW Binney Autholites [sic] 3) Drift with marine shells 4) Moel Tryfan in Blackpool till 5) With papers on Peat Mosses [Sphagnum] 6) On peat of Trent & Ouse of Post- Roman date- also submerged in floating bogs 7) Blackpool Beds. Folio 341...