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Insects

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

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from John Curtis, 1828

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/21
Scope and Contents

Letter from John Curtis to Sir Charles Lyell relating to two insect specimens that Curtis was examining, Curtis reports that he has identified one of the two specimens as Elater Lineatus, 1828.

Dates: 1828

Notebook No.26, June 1829- June 1829

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 1: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/26
Scope and Contents This brown leather notebook contains brief notes of wastage of cliffs along coast of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk. There is a list of Aix insects p.42. There are many blank pages and notes without references or context. Contents are written primarily in pencil, and sketches in ink. On the front cover is written in ink "1. June 1829". The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning...
Dates: June 1829- June 1829