Shells
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook No.75, 3 May 1839-4 June 1839
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 3: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/75
Scope and Contents
This red leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes and contain specimen lists, queries for colleagues, and notes on publication of new editions of Principles of Geology and Elements of Geology. Subjects are chiefly notes on fossil shells of Crag. The index is on p. 138-139. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from digital...
Dates:
3 May 1839-4 June 1839
Notebook No.76, 4 June 1839-24 June 1839
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 3: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/76
Scope and Contents
This dark maroon colored leather notebook contains Lyell's notes including geological observations and sketches in pencil, some specimen lists and queries, many blank pages. The front cover is blank and the index is written in front and back inside covers. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from digital surrogates using the...
Dates:
4 June 1839-24 June 1839
Notebook No.80, 5 February 1840-25 June 1840
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/80
Scope and Contents
This brown leather notebooks contains inventories of shells and fossils, Lyell's thinking on geology. There are mentions of Darwin and Playfair; London and France; References to Darwin, Tertiary shells, etc. The index is on p. 113-116. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from digital surrogates using the platform Transkribus....
Dates:
5 February 1840-25 June 1840
Notebook No.86, 8 December 1840-4 February 1841
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/86
Scope and Contents
This dark leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes in ink, occasional pencil, mostly relates to notes on Touraine shells and notes by Mr Bunbury. Short index written in the back of the notebook, along with a list of Touraine shells - and there are links between this list and correspondence with Colonel E.R. Wood. Covers are blank. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the...
Dates:
8 December 1840-4 February 1841
Notebook No.87, February 1841- June 1841
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/87
Scope and Contents
This dark leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes which appear to be continuation of discussion on Touraine shells, notes of list of books to go to America, notes on correspondence sent and received, and notes on lectures. On p. 106 Lyell makes reference to Timothy Abbot Conrad's New York Geological Survey of 1840. The covers of the notebook are blank, the index is written on the last pages of the book. The following table of...
Dates:
February 1841- June 1841
Notebook No.112, 11 August 1843-30 August 1843
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/112
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from his travels through Bristol (started in previous notebook, Number 111) and Ireland (continued in following notebook Number 113). It is dated 11-30 August 1843. Notes are in pencil and ink and are primarily field notes. The index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 113-116. Lyell's Own Index Index.
11th to the 30th of Aug[ust]. 1843.
Bristol and...
Dates:
11 August 1843-30 August 1843
Notebook No.115, January 1844- May 1844
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/115
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from January to May 1844 while in London. Notes are in pencil and ink. The notebook index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 112-115. From pp.20-22, 32 - with Darwin Lyell's own index Index
London Jan[uary] to May 1844.
p. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 Acc[ount]. with C. Sowerby
p. 3 Latin poetry, De ape electro inclusa
- [p. 3 Latin poetry] De vipera...
Dates:
January 1844- May 1844
Notes of numbers of shells on the Island of Madeira, 1856
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 224-225
Scope and Contents
Notes of numbers of shells on the island of Madeira, 1856.
Dates:
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
Notes on Grand Canary & Madeira, Porta Santa shells and lists of shells, 30 November 1855
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 165-168
Scope and Contents
Notes on shells and fossils, 30 November 1855, headed with the title 'Brit[ish] Museum' indicating they were observed there, rather than on the island itself.
Dates:
30 November 1855