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London

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London

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London; p.83 - Discussion of article in 'The Gardener's Chronicle', 24 July 1852, on sports

Scope and Contents This notebook is absent from Lyell's original run of 266 Scientific notebooks. Through the work of Leonard G. Wilson, copies have been identified, and used to create this catalogue entry. This notebook starts 23 August 1852, when Lyell is two and a half days away from Liverpool, en route to Nova Scotia for his third trip to North America. He lands in Nova Scotia on August 31st. This notebook includes notes taken about scientific articles, the extinction of species, and...

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This notebook is absent from Lyell's original run of 266 Scientific notebooks. Through the work of Leonard G. Wilson, copies have been identified, and will be used to create a catalogue entry [Summer 2024].

Scope and Contents Notebook 179 begins in late September and ends in mid-October 1852. Lyell starts at the New York Harbour, then travels on to Albany (New York), Amherst (Massachusetts), Bellow Falls and Brandon (Vermont), and examines the boulder trails in Canaan and Richmond Valleys of Berkshire Massachusetts. At times, Lyell traveled with James Hall and Edward Hitchcock. Transcription note: This notebook is written in ink and pencil and does not include an...

Scope and Contents Notebook 180 begins in mid-October and ends in late December 1852. Lyell is in the United States, traveling in the Boston area and giving a six-week lecture series for the Lowell Institute. In the first half of the notebook, Lyell is working with Louis Agassiz and Jeffries Wyman to identify the bones found while in Joggins, Nova Scotia. On December 1st, the Lyells departed on the steamship Asia for Liverpool, arriving on December 12th. The last section of the notebook continues with geologic...

Scope and Contents This purple-black notebook contains a record of the queries, conversations, and discussions of Charles Lyell commencing July 1848 whilst based in London and Scotland, focusing on the political, religious, and geological ideas that started during his travel in America and before his second travels in Americal was published in 1849. It covers content on America- Wyoming, Massachusetts, Boston, as well as on Kinnordy, Ireland, and London. This notebook has detailed notes on the geology of...