Box Box 1.13
Container
Contains 33 Results:
Letters from Whewell, William to Charles Lyell, 6 February 1836 - 7 April 1847
File — Box: Box 1.13
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
File — Box: Box 1.13
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
File — Box: Box 1.13
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
File — Box: Box 1.13
Identifier: Coll-203/1/289
Scope and Contents
Summarised as 'Scrambles in the Alps'.
Dates:
7 November 1871
Letters from Wigham, J B to Charles Lyell, 26 February 1839 - 12 December 1839
File — Box: Box 1.13
Identifier: Coll-203/1/290
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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Dates:
26 February 1839 - 12 December 1839
Letters from Wilkinson, Sir John Gardener to Charles Lyell, 25 November 1861 - 18 February 1863
File — Box: Box 1.13
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
File — Box: Box 1.13
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
File — Box: Box 1.13
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
File — Box: Box 1.13
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