Box Box 1.1

Summarised by Lyell as:
Bischoff on Secular Elevations and Carbonic acid.
The letter also contains a small table relating to the process of decomposition.

Summarised by Lyell as 'Dr. Blackmore Flint Implements Fisherton Salisbury'. Letter introduces his account of flints found by men at Fisherton, with accompanying report 'Discovery of Flint Implements in the Drift at Fisherton near Salisbury and at the Hill Head at Fareham'. Three drawings by Blackmore of the flints. Blackmore appears to have published 'Remains of birds' eggs found at Fisherton, Near Salisbury' in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal N.S. (1864)

Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Bonney. Bunsen on Great Geyser 1872
2) Bonney, May 24 1873, Thanks for Antiquity, Ice-erosion glacier lakes etc
3) Bonney, ... students ..., Dec 30 1873
4) Bonney, Jan 30 1874, on Judd on volcanic rocks, Botzen earth pillars
5) Bonney, June 11. 1874, Thanks for Student's Elements.

Summarised by Lyell as 'On Dr Falconer'. Also includes letter written to Mary Lyell.

Summarised by Lyell as 'Bosquet, Maestricht [sic Maastricht] tubes in chalk'. Included is a small envelope containing a tiny packet of pieces of clay - found in thin layers on the walls of the vertical geological tubes of the mountains of St Pierre and in piles in the horizontal and iregular pipes of the same mountains.

Summarised by Lyell
1) Boucher de Perthes sending shells for
2) "Bivalve of Menchecourt"
3) "Boucher de Perthes shells of Menchecourt by

Summarised by Lyell as
1) Bowerbank on plants of the London Clay, April 1841
2) Bowerbank, July 5th 1850, Sheppey .. age of London Clay, no macaws …
3) J.S. Bowerbank, Nov. 9th 1851, on chalk pterodactyl
4) Bowerbank, Spongia patera growing on one another? Nov. 29th 1863.

Summarised by Lyell as 'List of [? Mammals] under lava at Nechers [sic Neschers. France]. Lists species under various time periods.

Summarised by Lyell as 'Van Breda paper on Amiens Flints'.

Lyell summarises the letters as:
1) Captain Brickenden Age of Old Red Reptile
2) Captain Brickenden offering Elgin Slab to G.G. With coloured illustration showing location, naming Findhorn River, Lossiemouth and Speymouth.