Box Box 1.13

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Summarised as 'Scrambles in the Alps'.

Scope and Contents Mr. J. B. Wigham was writing from Heigham in Norfolk. In his death notice, dated 26th December 1851, in the Norfolk Chronicle, Wigham is described as "a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society, and was well known as having personally collected one of the best cabinets of tertiary fossils in the kingdom". Teh main themes of the letters are shells, Crags, Norfolk/Norwich, and Sand pipes, and they are summarised as: ...

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Correspondence includes: discussion on bricks; watercolour sketches to scale, of sections of the mortar used in the Great Pyramid, and 2nd [sic] Pyramid, Egypt, and thickness of Nile deposit; drawing with measurements and projection.

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 'Welsh Glaciers, changes of climate and of ice in Greenland, Old Danish Colonies abandoned and reinstated'.

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Summarised as 'Toronto Prehistoric Man'. Includes photocopy.

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Summarised as 'Colonel Sykes on analysis for manual etc.'. Includes discussion of laterites, and references to others work including Werner, Voysey.

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 'Papers on table of Triassic Genera' - which was written by Etheridge, sent to Lyell who sent them to Tate, who annotated them with his own notes, and sent them back to Lyell. The papers are enclosed with an extract from a book with an article by Tate about species of Exogyra.

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Glacial formation of scandinavia and fossil mollusca paper included.