Box Box 1.14

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Copy letter, summarised as ''Central fluidity formation of igneous rocks - upheaval of strata'.

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Copy letter, summarised as 'Lyell to Fouque on chemical theory of volcanoes'.

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Copy letter written by Lyell, then Mary, with corrections, to Geikie, summarised as 'Lyell to Geikie - On 'Quart' Art [sic Quarterly Article]: - Ice-scooping - Aerial erosion'.

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Copy etter written by Mary, with amendments by Lyell. Summarised as 'Colenso'.

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Copy letter summarised as 'Westmoreland & Yorkshire Geo[logy] [and also on the front as Glen Roy].

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Copy of part of a letter sent to Mr. Hopkins, summarised as 'On fluid matter in solid shell'. With illustration.

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Copy of extract of letter, summarised as 'On terms Post-Pliocene - Pleistocene - Pantocene' [sic Newer Pliocene].

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Copy letter summarised as 'Lyell to Hull - English Coal fields - Manchester section - Alleghanies - Dawson's 'Arcadia'. Contents relate to Hull's recent papers in 'our journal' relating to information on carboniferous rocks, and which Lyell admires very much. Lyell asks questions relating to Joggins, Nova Scotia

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Copy of a letter, started by Lyell and completed by Mary with corrections by Lyell, and summarised as 'fossil quadrupeds of St. Prest Belgium etc., & Aurignac cave question'.

Scope and Contents Copy letters, the earliest of which is written by Mary, which the final section written by Lyell - no summary but relates to Lesley's publication in 1864 in the Proceedings of the Phil[osophical] Soc[iety] of Philadelphia . Lyell praises Lesley's diagrams showing the complexity of the Appalachians. The second letter [numbered in the folios first] is written by Arabella Buckley, summarised as 'Faults in Appalachians, Hull on Permian overlying Coal-measures Medlicott theory of mountain...