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Box Box 3.2

 Container

Contains 17 Results:

Letter from Grote, George, to Charles Lyell, 1862-11 May 1868

 File — Box: Box 3.2
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/47
Scope and Contents

Four papers in same packet 1) 'Platon's Phadras' by Dr. C.R. Volquardsen 2) 'Antinomies' 3) 'Sophist Compared to an Angler' 4) Communion - Relativity

Dates: 1862-11 May 1868

Letter from Guiscardi, Guillaume, to Charles Lyell, 7 February 1858-6 July 1858

 File — Box: Box 3.2
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/49
Scope and Contents

'Enclosed - Sketch of volcano, pamphlet entitled 'Notizie del Vesuvio' and various pages of notes

Dates: 7 February 1858-6 July 1858

Letter from Haidinger, W., to Charles Lyell, 30 August 1864

 File — Box: Box 3.2
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/50
Scope and Contents This letter has no summary. Haidinger writes to Lyell from Dornbach, Vienna. First, he thanks Lyell for the invitation he received for the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Bath, which was in September 1864, where Lyell delivered the presidential address. He also congratulates Lyell on being given the title of Baronet by the British crown, which he received earlier this same year. Haidinger mentions his own work at the Imperial Geological Institute....
Dates: 30 August 1864

Journal article authored by Geikie, Prof. Archibald, on 'Metamorphic and Volcanic Actions', 18 December 1873

 File — Box: Box 3.2
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/44
Scope and Contents

Complimentary copy of journal article read by Geikie on metamorphic and volcanic actions, to the Edinburgh Geological Society, inscribed 'Sir Charles Lyell Bart with A Geikie's Compliments'.

Dates: 18 December 1873

Letter from Herschel, Sir John F.W., to Charles Lyell, 3 February 1865 - 19 February 1865

 File — Box: Box 3.2
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/54
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z. 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. Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the letter itself, or, on the associated envelope. These summaries have been used as the basis of the catalogue...
Dates: 3 February 1865 - 19 February 1865