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Fossils

 Subject

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

Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:

Notes on Grand Canary & Madeira, Porto Santo 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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands

Notes on numbers of shells in Porto Santo and Madeira excluding the Desertes, 1856

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands

Notes relating to fossil shell species, 4 May [1856]

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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]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands

Paleontological drawings of Professor Euan N. K. Clarkson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1637
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the original paleontological drawings of Professor Euan N. K. Clarkson (some in colour, some in black and white), used as teaching aids as well as for publication in academic journals and monographs in the field of palaeontology.

Dates: c 1963-2002
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Porto Santo fossils, 1855

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 205-206
Scope and Contents

List titled 'Porto Santo fossils'. White Limestone.

Dates: 1855
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands

Porto Santo shells, 1 December 1855

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands

Sketches of shells with notes, 1856

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands

The Fossil "Desert Horse", 1870s-1930s

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Translation of a letter from Gaetano Gemmellaro, 1850s

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of Mount Etna