Box Box 1.7

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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.

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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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...

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Sketches of Gould's and Talcott's survey.

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Letter summarised as from Torell, via Denmark 'levels of Baltic, tables calculated by Homstrond'. Holmstrond introduces the tables as'Notes on the rise of land in Sweden' and 'summary of the measures of watermarks'. Tables include data dated 1774 - 1867. Final letter details the return of these letters to Lyell from Dunbar James Douglas, who has read them with interest

Scope and Contents The correspondence between Charles Lyell and Edward Hitchcock is mainly concerned with geology, specifically sandstone footprints. 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. 'Hitchcock Dec[ember] 1843'. This letter is concerned with newly discovered...

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Includes letter from Dunbar James Douglas (6th Earl of Selkirk) 28th March 1868. "From Prof Torrell" is written on end of Holstrom's letter.

Scope and Contents Lyell's own summarises are given in quotation marks: 1) Milne Home Aug '71 Macclesfield Shells' 2) Milne Home- The pact-Roman use in Firth of Forth, June 1872'. The letter discusses Home's work on a discovery of a stone covered in Roman Sculpture at Bo'ness on the Forth Estuary. 3) Letter contains information about the Roman tablet found about 15 feet above the Kish Water Mark. 4) Milne Home 'on Post Roman use of land, Sept 5 1872'. Milne-Home to visit where the...

Scope and Contents Lyell summarises the letters as: 1) 'W. Hopkins Jan 6. 1840 On thickness of solid crust enveloping fluids'. 2) 'W. Hopkins on thickness of Earth's crust - Feb 16 1840'. 3) No summary by Lyell but the letter discusses the constitution of the Board and the scientific nature of the society and other geologist's work on the Earth's crust. 4) 'Hopkins Oct 8 1846 Criticisms on Appalachian movement theory Lyell travel'. 5) 'Hopkins - subsidence of Appalachian 1846'....