Box Box 1.14

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Summarised by Lyell as 'Gozzadini on Bolognese Necropolis'.

Scope and Contents The correspondence between Charles Lyell and J. Wyman is mainly concerned with geology and natural history of North America. Specific subjects in the letters include: Louis Agassiz, W.B. Rogers, Herman Van Meyer, Geology of Newfoundland, and Megatherium. Many of the letters include diagrams drawn by Wyman. 'Natchez blind animal Selidotherium [sic Scelidotherium]'. The letter includes a diagram of a...

Scope and Contents Written from the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, and from Young's home in Beith, Ayrshire. Summarised as 'Irish Elk of Crofthead and Kilmaurs Elephant', with press cuttings, 'Thanks for Students' Elements, Arctic Shells at Cartsdyke on the Clyde - Boulder Clay with local boulders'. Manuscript of articles on' Post Roman rise of land' and 'Upraised Strata in Sweden and Norway'. He receives a copy of Antiquity of Man, and will look at the section on the recent rise of the shores of the Clyde - the...

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Summarised as 'Human Remains in Cave near Turbingen [?desent] by Schrieber in 1840-1841. Brings to Lyell's attention an incident not yet 'quoted by yourself or Mr. Huxley' of a discovery by his Egyptian medical student Billharz, near the village of Erpfingen, written up by Henry Schrieber. Refers to recent discovery at the cavern of Engis and in Neanderthal and urges Lyell to locate and consider this information.

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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'.