Box Box 1.9

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Summarised as 'article on Geol. in Bibliotheque Universelle not acknowledged as chiefly from Principles'.

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Summarised as 'on the mollusca dredged in Vigo Bay', refers to shells from Canary Islands 1853.

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Summarised as 'Heights at Montreal', June 1842. McCord also talks of the loss of Captain Bayfield. McCord is referenced as a source of information on the height of shells in Lyell's Travels, volume 2, 1845.

Scope and Contents Includes two letters to Mary Lyell from McIlvaine from 1846-47. Earliest dated letter is summarised as 'on Hopkins 400m of crust of earth 1846', the other letters are conversational in manner, updating both Lyells [tone assumes both are reading the letters] on local news and associates - summarised as to Charles 'on Holy Innocents', and to Mary on 'Glenroy, Season for Cropping, [Mayall's] Daguerreotype, Calendars, Meteor, Abolitionist, Black Church, Tariff', to Mary, an unsummarised letter,...

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 as 'Capt. Maclure [sic] R.N. on Blocks drifted by coast ice in Arctic regions' [was previously GEN1999/10/11]