Box Box 1.14

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Correspondence about species sent to the British Museum.

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Summarised as: Age of Malta beds, Miocene.

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Bedford flints.

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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.