France -- Calais
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook No.8, 4 May 1828 - 18 May 1828
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 1: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/8
Scope and Contents
This brown leather notebook features Lyell's copy hand throughout, many detailed sketches, Dover, Calais, mention of Auvergne, Fault Shakespeare's Cliff, Geological observations at Dover, Calais and on road south from Paris to Riom. The inside cover notes his address, "Mr. C Lyell, No 9 Crown Office Row, Temple". The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the...
Dates:
4 May 1828 - 18 May 1828
Notebook No.168, 7 July 1851 - 21 or 22 July 1851
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/168
Scope and Contents
This notebook follows on from notebook 167, dates from 7 July to 21 or 22 July 1851 and relates particularly to Lyell’s visit to French Flanders and Belgium to compare Tertiary strata there with those of England, the results of which he published in 1852 “On the Tertiary strata of Belgium and French Flanders”, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 1852, Vol 8, 277-370. Read at the Geological Society on 5 May 1852. The notebook starts before he left England, with to-do lists (“Mem.”)...
Dates:
7 July 1851 - 21 or 22 July 1851