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Summarised by Lyell as 'Remains in this phosphatic nodules on the Suffolk Crag, mentioned in Students Elements pg 173. Hicks asks a question on this topic.

Scope and Contents Lyell’s summarises the letters as: - 'The Cambrian group reduced to nothing if all the Longmynd [sic Long Mynd] are Silurian'. Thanking for receiving Elements edition, "there is an unusual charm in your books which compels a careful reading from them". Briefly refutes Mr Davidson’s Primordial Silurian group. 1 October 1868. - 'Cambrian of Elements'. Divisions of periods, where they start & end, where various Welsh formations fall into those. Small diagram included...

Scope and Contents Correspondence consists of: Lyell summarises first letter as: Gen. Humphreys to queries on the Missi[ssippi] Delta - 24th June [18]'65. Letter also contains a small diagram and discusses the geology of New Orleans and the presence of types of clay. Letter containing a memorandum of sediment papers collected at Carrolton by the Delta Survey in 1851 and reporting in of the results of...

Scope and Contents Lyell summarises these letters as: 'Hunt on medium laterite & regular to Col. C Bunbury Carvajal Plant' and 'Hunt on Calcium matter in lichen'. There is also a continuation to this letter in the same envelope but sent as one letter. 'Sterry Hunt asking for certificates'. Sterry Hunt is putting himself forward for the Chair of Geology at Columbia College, New York and is asking for a...

Scope and Contents The correspondence between Charles Thomas Jackson and Charles Lyell mainly concerns the geology of the United States and Jackson's discoveries. Specific subjects include: Ether, New Brunswick, Paleonisci, and Abraham Gesner. Lyell or his team, have summarised the letters, either on the envelope, or on the letter itself - usually in the space allocated to the address. Where there is a summary, it has been transcribed here. ...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z, including one ‘Miscellaneous’ section within the 'M' series. Each correspondent has been assigned a file number – there may be several folders within that file, evidencing the longevity and depth of the relationship between Lyell and the correspondent - for example his brother in law Charles Bunbury. Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the...

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Original letter listed in this arrangement as W James, but the writing is very similar to H James, though signature is different. Letter in reponse to Lyell, on education, the relevance of Classical and general Architecture, and his pleasure at learning University of London is proposing a degree in Science, under the group Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Geology and Natural History.

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Letters to Darwin fro Lyell within the Jamieson folders on Moel Tryfan and Glen Roy 1861.

Scope and Contents Lyell summarises the letters as: 1) Gwyn Jeffreys Oct 14 1861 Scrobicularia Piperata, climate of 2) Gwyn Jeffreys - Feb 22/70 Returning Cobboldia [?] which he makes same species 3) Gwyn Jeffreys Pagham and Selsea Elephas antiquar bed June 17 1860 4) Copy of letter from Gwyn Jeffreys to Mr Jamieson. Fort William arctic shelf 1862 5) Gwyn Jeffreys Shells mentioned in ""Antiquity of Man"" March 10 1863 6) [?] of species in Japan more than...

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Summarised as 'J.Y. Johnson Madeira Po da Cruz leaves'.
Additional details: Notes from J Y Johnson on receiving Lyell's memoir of Etna, asking after Lyell's memoir of Madeira. Mentions his own progress on leaf identification in the area of Porto da Cruz and mentions his discoveries in reference to others like Brown, Reiss, and Hartung and their work going on in Sao Gorge and Valley of Furnas.