Fossils
Subject
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Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:
Notes and Correspondence on the Geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands, 1854-1856
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/2 (Lyell 2)
Scope and Contents
Notes and Correspondence on the Geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands consists of:
Cross-sections
Correspondence
Notes
Barometrical observations
Maps
Sketches concerning fossils, shells, and geological features found on the Madeiran and Canary Islands
Draft manuscripts for a paper containing Lyell's...
Dates:
1854-1856
Notes by William Carruthers, c 29 August 1866
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 528-529
Scope and Contents
Slip of paper referred to in Coll-203 Gen. 109 Lyell 1/527, giving detailed botanical editorial instructions concerning kelp and the growth of coal period trees, vegetation patterns and the resultant fossils.
Dates:
c 29 August 1866
Notes on Grand Canary & Madeira, Porta Santa shells and lists of shells, 30 November 1855
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 165-168
Scope and Contents
Notes on shells and fossils, 30 November 1855, headed with the title 'Brit[ish] Museum' indicating they were observed there, rather than on the island itself.
Dates:
30 November 1855
Notes on numbers of shells in Porto Santo and Madeira excluding the Desertes, 1856
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 229-230
Scope and Contents
Notes on numbers of shells, both extinct and extant, in Porto Santo and Madeira with percentages of the total, 1856.
Dates:
1856
Notes relating to fossil shell species, 4 May [1856]
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 233
Scope and Contents
Notes relating to North African and South European species of fossil shells, 4 May [1856].
Dates:
4 May [1856]
Porto Santo fossils, 1855
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 205-206
Scope and Contents
List titled 'Porto Santo fossils'. White Limestone.
Dates:
1855
Porto Santo shells, 1 December 1855
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 169-172
Scope and Contents
Notes and sketches relating to Porto Santo shells - limestone, Corals, and lists of other species. 1 December 1855.
Dates:
1 December 1855
Sketches of shells with notes, 1856
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 226-228
Scope and Contents
Sketches of shells with notes featuring Helix Aquensis from France, Helix Cariosula and Helix Depressula from North Africa by Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen, with envelope, 1856.
Dates:
1856
The Fossil "Desert Horse", 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/323
Scope and Contents
Image of the skeleton of the fossil "Desert Horse" which was discovered through the Whitney Fund in [1906] and is mounted in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Translation of a letter from Gaetano Gemmellaro, 1850s
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/4/29
Scope and Contents
Translation of a letter from Gaetano Gemmellaro concerning the gradual elevation of the coast of Sicily, the inclination of lava flows, the origin of the Balzo D'Aci which he thinks was affected by an Earthquake and fossil shells found in the Pleistocene beds of Cefali, Sematica and other places in Sicily by himself, Phillipi and Professor Aradas. 1850s.
Dates:
1850s