Abbeville Jaw
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Evans John, to Charles Lyell, 17 May 1862-18 October 1872
File — Box Box 1.4: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/75
Scope and Contents
This series is split into 5 folders, and Lyell summarises the letters as:
Folder 1
1) 'Evans, ice-chisels-difference of weapons at St Acheul & Abbeville'
2) 'Evans, J. Stan hatchet Northhmptn, Sept 27 1862' Includes a drawing of the tool
3) 'Evans, John Jaw & teeth of Archaeopteryx, Jan 16 1863'
4) 'Evans, John Feb 18 1863, Errata 'Antiquity of Man' flint tools & Icklingham'
5) Summerhouse Hill hatchet, sketch of, [includes] Wyatt's...
Dates:
17 May 1862-18 October 1872
Notebook No.248, 30 March 1863 - 29 July 1863
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/248
Scope and Contents
This dark green Notebook documents Lyell's work whilst in London, and on location in Suffolk and Kent, Lyell is considering the antiquity of man, flints, hatchets and heights and depths of sea levels. The two previous notebooks 246 and 247 - have no indexes. This notebook is the first one featuring Lyell's Secretary, Arabella Buckley. Born in 1840, Buckley started to work as secretary to Lyell at the age of 24, and remained with him until his death in 1875. The index starts in Lyell's own...
Dates:
30 March 1863 - 29 July 1863