Craters, Volcanic

Articles, c. 1829-c.1874

Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.13: Series Coll-203/B16

Identifier: Coll-203/B16

Scope and Contents Articles by Charles Lyell, and by others. Original label exists, which lists some of the items below: Printed list of papers and articles by Charles Lyell, with two handwritten lists inserts, one written by Mary Lyell. Lists 62 publications dated 1825-1852 Boulder Formation or Drift, and associated freshwater deposits, composing the mud cliffs of Eastern Norfolk, read at The Geological...

Dates: c. 1829-c.1874

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Carlo Gemmellaro, 10 February 1858

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Identifier: Coll-203/4/14

Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Carlo Gemmellaro answering a list of questions that Lyell had evidently posed to him in a previous letter. Topics covered include volcanic strata, inaccuracies in maps of the area around Mount Etna drawn by Wolfgang Sartorius Von Waltershausen, and Lyell's theory that the 2 craters of Mount Etna were contemporary. Gemmellaro disputes this theory as each crater ejected different types of rock, Felspatic and Pyroxenic, with no mixing of the two. Gemmellaro...

Dates: 10 February 1858

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

Madeira and Canaries Notebook, 2 August 1858 - 16 May 1859

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Identifier: Coll-203/A4/2

Scope and Contents Small red leather soft cover notebook, marbled end papers, paginated in handwritten ink. Front cover marked as 'Madeira & Canaries'.This notebook records discussions, reading, drawings and copy letters (in Mary's writing) made whilst with Hartung at Swingenberg, Germany, and working through the Canary Islands publication, making revisions or notes, especially on volcanoes, lava slopes, elevations and upheaval. Many pages written in pencil. Blank from page 89 onwards. ...

Dates: 2 August 1858 - 16 May 1859

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Madeira and Canary Islands Notebooks

Map of Mount Etna, Sicily, c1857

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Identifier: Coll-203/4/4

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Map of Mount Etna in Sicily showing the main crater, the Val del Bove and the Montagnuola amongst other features. c1857.

Dates: c1857

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

Map of Mount Vesuvius, Italy, c1857

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Identifier: Coll-203/4/5

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Map of Mount Vesuvius, Italy, showing the crater and several other geological formations, c1857.

Dates: c1857

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

Notebook No.194, March 1854

Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1

Identifier: Coll-203/A1/194

Scope and Contents This red notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s geological travels around the Canary Islands with Georg Hartung, in the company of Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury, and along with previous notebook 193, is one of the longest. There is a clear date noted on page 1, of 6th March 1854, however, in the separate index recorded in the Madeira Index reference Coll-203/A5/16 dates are given there as 26th – 29th October 1855 – which may reflect the date the index was created. This...

Dates: March 1854