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Fossils

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

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

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