Geology

Copy correspondence, 1876-1914

Series

Identifier: Coll-99/5

Scope and Contents

family letters
professional correspondence

Dates: 1876-1914

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie

Manuscript Papers relating to Published Works, c. 1840 - c. 1855

Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.14: Series Coll-203/B18; Series Coll-203/B17

Identifier: Coll-203/B18

Scope and Contents Contains extensive autograph manuscript drafts of texts, with cancellations, revisions and additions, and with illustrative plates and maps: 1. 'On the Geology of some parts of Madeira' by Sir Charles Lyell. Notes on text about Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Index to Notebook 195. 2. Original packaging 'Original Geological MS Notes of Sir Charles Lyell (Lady Lyell preserved these - as she was asked at times for autographs, and as time advances, they may be still more valuable)'....

Dates: c. 1840 - c. 1855

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Miscellaneous Papers, 1831-1864

Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 1.22 (Formerly Gen 119): Series Coll-203/5 (Lyell 5); Series Coll-203/6 (Lyell 6); Series Coll-203/7 (lyell 7); Series Coll-203/8 (Lyell 8)

Identifier: Coll-203/7 (lyell 7)

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous Papers consists of: address by Sir Charles Lyell on Charles Darwin receiving the Copley Medal (1864) list of mollusca by Searles Valentine Wood printed pages from an article or book in German, translated as 'Excerpts from Letters of Professor Fr. Hoffmann, incomplete. Also, pages detailing in German, Aetna area, the foot of the mountain at the Simeto Valley...

Dates: 1831-1864

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Notebook No.72, 9 August 1838- September 1838

Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 3: Series Coll-203/A1

Identifier: Coll-203/A1/72

Scope and Contents This red leather notebook include Charles Lyell's geological observations, sketches, some essays with queries, diary entry from August 29th 1838 from Kinnordy about the length and publication of Principles of Geology and Elements of Geology. The index is p. 139,140, and inside back cover. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from...

Dates: 9 August 1838- September 1838