Fossil shells
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands, 1854-1856
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/2 (Lyell 2)
Scope and Contents
This series contains the information gathered by Sir Charles Lyell on a visit to Madeira and the Canary Islands in the winter of 1853 and spring of 1854. He studied the volcanic and geological features of the island including fossils and shells. There is a detailed 'Index to the Notebooks on Geology of Madeira' in the series of Index notebooks, reference Coll-203/A5/16, which indexes the relevant Scientific Notebooks 185 - 197, as well as these manuscripts. There are additionally two...
Dates:
1854-1856
Notes on extinct and extant shells on the Islands of Porto Santo and Madeira, 28 March 1856
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 211-220
Scope and Contents
Notes on the numbers of fossil species [of shell] which are found in the islands of Porto Santo and Madeira giving details of the number of extinct and extant species on both islands and the total of shells in each category which are common to both islands and drawing inferences from these figures in terms of how these numbers came to be, 28 March 1856.
Dates:
28 March 1856