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 Subject

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Notes and correspondence on the geology of Forfarshire, 1817-1841

 Series — Box Lyell Box 1.16 (Formerly Gen 116): Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); Series Coll-203/3 (Lyell 3)
Identifier: Coll-203/3 (Lyell 3)
Scope and Contents

The notes and correspondence on the Geology of Forfarshire consist of:


  1. notes
  2. sketchbooks
  3. geological cross sections
  4. correspondence
Dates: 1817-1841
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Notes for paper on Sections of Isla, [Melgus], Prosen and South Esk, c1822-1824

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/19
Scope and Contents

Notes for a paper on sections of Isla, [Melges], Prosen and South Esk containing information from publications and other scientists about rock types in Forfarshire. c1822-1824.

Dates: c1822-1824
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and correspondence on the geology of Forfarshire

Notes on sandstone and alluvium, c1822-1824

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/18
Scope and Contents

Notes relating to the way in which sandstone and alluvium beds have been formed in the geology of the Cortachy and Prosen areas of Forfarshire and notes relating to Sir Charles Lyell's disagreement concerning Sir Fleming's reasoning about alluvial hills near Arbroath, c1822-1824.

Dates: c1822-1824
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and correspondence on the geology of Forfarshire

Notes on specimens collected in Forfarshire, c1822-1824

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/20
Scope and Contents

Numbered list of locations where Sir Charles Lyell collected rock samples, c1822-1824. Empty packaging, plus pages torn from a notebook recording locations.

Dates: c1822-1824
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and correspondence on the geology of Forfarshire

Sea Heights, c1822-1824

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/15
Scope and Contents

Handwritten table recording Height above the sea, heights above Kinnordy. and heights Kinnordy above [sic. Lists figures of places, and their heights.

Dates: c1822-1824
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and correspondence on the geology of Forfarshire

Section of Marl opposite the house at Kinnordy, 1827

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/17
Scope and Contents

List of layers of material forming marl opposite the house at Kinnordy (Angus) with measurements for the depths of layers, 1827.

Dates: 1827
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and correspondence on the geology of Forfarshire

Section of Strathmore, c1822-1824

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/10
Scope and Contents

Annotated geological cross section of Strathmore, Forfarshire, in coloured pencil and ink c1822-1824.

Dates: c1822-1824
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and correspondence on the geology of Forfarshire

Sermons of John Laird (1811-1896), minister of Inverkeilor Free Church

 Fonds
Identifier: MS LAI
Scope and Contents Notebook containing two sermons on Exodus 3:3 and Isaiah 21:11-12. Not on front fly leaf verso says 'This book contauns in my mother's handwriting 2 sermons probably my Father's in the early Inverkeilor days about 1840/1.' The note is signed by D.M.W. Laird. A second note is added in a different hand that says, '(assistant to Dr. J Kennedy in New College Library for several years up to 1922)'.The back section of the book has notes about possible schemes of classification for New...
Dates: 1840-1922
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Supposed Section of the Marl Deposits in the Bakie Loch, c1822-1824

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/5
Scope and Contents

Pen and ink annotated geological cross section of Bakie Loch in Forfarshire c1822-1824.



Dates: c1822-1824
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and correspondence on the geology of Forfarshire