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Volcanoes

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE Updated for = Charles Lyell Project 2020

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

A Country Road in Puebla, Showing Popocatepetl [Mexico], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1105
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a few people with their donkeys travelling along a country road in Puebla, Mexico with the active volcano, Popocatepetl in the background in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Calculations of Barometrical Observations in Palma, Canary Islands, 12 July 1854

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 36-38
Scope and Contents

Calculations of Barometrical Observations in La Palma, Canary Islands giving heights in feet of various volcanic features including of the Central Ridge of the Caldera, 12 July 1854.

Dates: 12 July 1854

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: American geologists, 1878-1907

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/13/1
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: American geologists sub-series consists of:


  1. 67 letters and postcards, alphabetically arranged (1878-1907).
Dates: 1878-1907

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Australian and New Zealand geologists, 1884-1900

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/13/2
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Australian and New Zealand geologists sub-series consists of:


  1. 11 letters, alphabetically arranged (1884-1900)
Dates: 1884-1900

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: French geologists, Barrios, 1880-1906

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/13/5
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: French geologists, Barrios sub-series consists of:


  1. letters, particularly from Charles Barrios of the Faculty of Science, University of Lille, discussing such items as the 8th International Geological Congress in Paris, 1900, various scientific publications and French volcanoes.
Dates: 1880-1906

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Italian, Spanish and Portuguese geologists, 1871-1907

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/14/4
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Italian, Spanish and Portuguese geologists sub-series includes letters from:


  1. Giovanni Capellini (1886-1904).
  2. WP Jervis (1882-1889).
  3. Giuseppe De Lorenzo (1901-1906).
  4. Gaetno Platania (1893-1906).
Dates: 1871-1907

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Letters from Coutts Trotter, 1879-1886

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/13/9
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Letters from Coutts Trotter sub-series includes letters from:


  1. 3 letters, chronologically arranged (1879-1886)
Dates: 1879-1886

Correspondence:Henry Hyatt Howell to Arthur Roope Hunt, 1884-1909

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/5
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence: Henry Hyatt Howell to Arthur Roope Hunt sub-series consists of:


  1. 22 letters, alphabetically arranged (1884-1909)
Dates: 1884-1909

Cross-sections of Madeiran geology, 1854

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 28-32
Scope and Contents

Illustrations by Hartung relating to a paper read by Sir Charles Lyell March 22 1854 to the Geology Society including a section of Cape Girain [sic Girão], Volcanic Cone, and the coast of Madeira, 1854.

Dates: 1854

Diluvidazioni, 21 April 1858

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/4/6
Scope and Contents

Document by Carlo Gemmellaro concerning the course of the lava flows on Mount Etna during the eruption of 1852, 21 April 1858.

Dates: 21 April 1858