Box Box 1.4

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Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Blackheath Faults, G.P. Deshayes naming shells, Drawing of Faults on Loam Pit Hill (Lewisham),
2) Deptford Faults, Drawing of brick wall showing fault line and cement,
3) Ideas about the formation of chalk cliffs in Wealden (East Sussex).

Scope and Contents Summarised by Lyell as: 1) Notes on normal water levels in the Baltic from a variety of academic papers 2) Rise of land in Norway according to Theodor Kjerulf 3) Discussions of Dr Adolf Nordenskiölds papers and secular use of Stockholm, 4) Geology of Sweden and Stockholm, 5) Drawing of cliff formation at Advent Bay, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, 6) Use of land in Sweden, 7) Exchange of academic papers between Lyell and others, 8) Translation of Dr...

Scope and Contents Letters are summarised by Lyell as: 1) Dr Duncan on Bolderberg Flabellum [relating to Bolderberg formation in Northern Belgium] 2) Tropical corals, how far corals can indicate climate 3) Corals in Norway sea 4) 60 new Liassic [Early Jurassic] corals, showing imperfection of record 5) Lonsdale notes and Keeling island [Cocos, Australia] specimens 6) Scleractinia of antigua corals and explanation of Duncan's theory 7) reference to his paper on...

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Letters relate to Lyell's works published in Germany:
1) Duncker announcing safe arrival of corrigenda and M.S at Cotta’s
2) Sum paid to Vieweg for translation
Carl von Cotta defended the concept of evolution and was a supporter of Lyell's principle of uniformitarianism however questioned Lyell's claim that earth was a fluctuation of eternally equal forces, noting the earth's historical development. Vieweg was a specialist German publisher.

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Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Dunker presents Palaeontographica
2)[? Phillippa] going to Chili, Dunker sent 2 Journals - Bound of Palaeontogr. on Brown Coal
Wilhelm Dunker founded the journal Palaeontographica in 1846. Letter is written from Elise, Dunker's cousin and wife, in German, to Lyell.

Scope and Contents Letters are summarised as: 1) Belgian caverns [SE of Dinant, Palaeolithic human remains] 2) Discovery of human remains in cavern [list of animal species also found in cave] 3) Cavern near Dinant, Palaeolithic man [butchery marks on animal bones potentially from humans, disarticulated bone assemblage including cave lion, cave hyena, bear, rhinoceros and horse] 4) Shells of the Lesse caverns [stone age flints from Vertus a commune of Marne, Belgium and polished stone...

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Summarised as 'Terminology', 'on translation of passage from [?Kogersin], 'on grouping upper marine and faluns', and 'acknowledging my [crossed out] extracts from his letters on metamorphoism - also on small decompostion of Alps proved by dilvu[ial?] scratches. One letter copied out [by Mary?].

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Summarised by Lyell as 'Brain in man and ape', and 'Owen's letter'.

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Summarised by Lyell as on Tertiary fossils of Seville.

Scope and Contents Lyell summarises these letters as: 1) Caelohynchus & Williamson's criticism November 1863 - includes sketch 2) Etheridge Pleurotomaria December 1863 - includes sketch 3) No summary, envelope stamped with Museum of Practical Geology and letter replies to Lyell's questions on the museum's collections 4) Crag section at Walton with 2 coloured annotated stratigraphic illustrations 5) Etheridge on Mr. Torrell's Swedish Cambrian plants being sponges 6)...