Box Box 1.13

Scope and Contents Summarised as "moths caught in mid ocean". Letter is Toynbee's response to Lyell's questions, given to him by Mrs. Smyth [may be wife of William Henry Smyth], relating to the moths caught on the Hotspur, and the data is taken from the ship log, giving details about when, where and what kind of creatures were observed: Death's head moths, finches, variegated insects that fly to light, dragonflies - he also refers to a sketch by Mrs Toynbee of a bird - not included, and describes other...

Scope and Contents Lyell summarises the letters as: 1) 'Mr Trimmer on Moel Tryfan shells being all recent species' 2) 'Trimmer on glacial evidence and on hail marks' 3) 'Trimmer on drifts' 4) 'Trimmer on superficial gravel soils etc' 5) 'Trimmer on draining by following the subsoil natural grooves'. Also includes two newspaper clippings 6) 'Post glacial deposits of Thames Valley, June 10th 1857'. Printed Advertisement for the Keythorpe System of Land Drainage. 7)...

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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Written from Rutland Place, London and conern Lyell's Antiquty, with commentary and passages on flint knives as mentioned in the bible.

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Summarised as 'Addresses for the Canaries, Madeira and the Azores'.

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 'Earthquakes of Jorullo', but specifically mentions City of Guanajuato, and earthquakes in that region from 1810.

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: Raised Beach at Torquay, with living shells; Worked Flints at [ditto, Torquay]; Brixham Cave Flints; Filling of Caves with Bones; Submarine forest with Elephant.

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Summarised as Antiquity of Man, Lamarck and Darwin, Marsupials in Australia and submergence in India Continent.