Box Box 1.14

Scope and Contents Letters from Charles Lyell, To Sir J. Clark. Marked 'No 1' on reverse, no summary. Sending a copy of his letter to Lord Wrottesley with a proof of the report to the British Association [this is the Report for the Parliamentary Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science on the question, Whether any measures could by adopted by the Government or Parliament tht would improve the position of Science or its Cultivators in this Country' folio 3711]. Also writes that he...

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Copy of letter, written by Mary, summarised as 'on classification of strata of Devon'.

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Copy letter written by Arabella Buckley, summarised as 'Lyell to Darwin, Sun's heat, Thomson on time, permanence of Continents'.

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This series was originally located within the A-Z correspondence to Charles Lyell, filed under the initial 'M' as 'Miscellaneous'. In fact, it comprises copy letters and notes sent from Lyell, to others. It has been retrieved, and catalogued as a separate series.

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Copy letter written by Lyell in response to a review of his anniversary address which featured in the Quarterly Review. That review was anonymous, but Lyell writes "I have just read …your review…for I presume you will allow me to infer from internal evidence that it is your's, as I thank you sincerely for the very handsome & cordial manner i which you have spoken of my two works". The addresse is very heavily inked over to be illegible.

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Written by Arabella Buckley and summarised as 'asking for help - questions etc', 'asking for help - excentricity'.

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Written by Arabella Buckley and summarised as 'on delata of Amazons & Agassiz's glacial of Brazil'.

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Copy letter written by Mary Lyell, Lyell to Croll on the possibility of a thick layer of ice at the Pole, questions answered by Col. Strachey, an Indian Officer, and asks Croll on his opinion.

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Copy letters summarised as 'On Ramsay's erosion of Lake basins' and 'Upheavel & depression as a cause of Lake basins'.

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Copy letter, summarised as 'On peopling of islands & Continental extension'.