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Box Box 1.13

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Contains 33 Results:

Letters from Whewell, William to Charles Lyell, 6 February 1836 - 7 April 1847

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Identifier: Coll-203/1/286
Scope and Contents

Some are summarised as: On Eligible Pres[idents] of Geological Society; University Education.

Dates: 6 February 1836 - 7 April 1847

Letters from Whitaker, William to Charles Lyell, 21 May 1867 - 8 June 1871

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Identifier: Coll-203/1/287
Scope and Contents

Summarised as: On Escarpments and Sea entering Transverse Valley; Newhaven Fort includes drawing showing earthworks which he labels as Roman Camp.

Dates: 21 May 1867 - 8 June 1871

Letters from Whitney, Josiah Dwight to Charles Lyell, 20 April 1864 - 16 September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-203/1/288
Scope and Contents

Summarised as: Calaveras County Skull; Californian Survey; Sierra Nevada Peak.

Dates: 20 April 1864 - 16 September 1872

Letters from Whymper, Edward to Charles Lyell, 7 November 1871

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Identifier: Coll-203/1/289
Scope and Contents

Summarised as 'Scrambles in the Alps'.

Dates: 7 November 1871

Letters from Wilkinson, Sir John Gardener to Charles Lyell, 25 November 1861 - 18 February 1863

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Identifier: Coll-203/1/291
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 25 November 1861 - 18 February 1863

Letters from Williamson, William Crawford to Charles Lyell, 26 June 1854 - 20 March 1873

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Identifier: Coll-203/1/292
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...
Dates: 26 June 1854 - 20 March 1873

Letters from Wills, W.R to Charles Lyell, 2 April 1863

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Identifier: Coll-203/1/293
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2 April 1863

Letters from Wilson, Sir Daniel to Charles Lyell, 13 December 1845

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Identifier: Coll-203/1/294
Scope and Contents

Summarised as 'Toronto Prehistoric Man'. Includes photocopy.

Dates: 13 December 1845

Letters from Vibraye, Paul Hurault de, 8th Marquis de to Charles Lyell, June 1837 - 8th July 1840

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Identifier: Coll-203/1/274
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...
Dates: June 1837 - 8th July 1840

Letters from Vivian, Edward to Charles Lyell, 14 January 1860

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Identifier: Coll-203/1/275A
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 14 January 1860