Megatherium
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Foster, John Wells to Charles Lyell, 2 February 1846 - 30 January 1853
File — Box Box 1.4: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/81
Scope and Contents
Written whilst in Zanesville, Ohio, and Brimfield, Massachusetts. Subjects include Casteroides, limestone, sandstone, Silurian, schist, a comparison of fossil elephants from Ohio and Oregon, and, the U.S. government. The summaries created by Lyell and his team are given below:
Foster of Zanesville on Casteroides & Mountain Limestone of Ohio Feb[ruar]y 2nd 1846 [supplement is written in light pencil]...
Dates:
2 February 1846 - 30 January 1853
Letters from Wyman, J to Charles Lyell, 14 September 1846 - 4 October 1856
File — Box Box 1.14: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); Series Coll-203/1B
Identifier: Coll-203/1/306
Scope and Contents
The correspondence between Charles Lyell and J. Wyman is mainly concerned with geology and natural history of North America. Specific subjects in the letters include: Louis Agassiz, W.B. Rogers, Herman Van Meyer, Geology of Newfoundland, and Megatherium. Many of the letters include diagrams drawn by Wyman.
'Natchez blind animal Selidotherium [sic Scelidotherium]'. The letter includes a diagram of a...
Dates:
14 September 1846 - 4 October 1856
Notebook No.139, 27 March 1846 - 4 April 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/139
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from March 27th to April 4th 1846. The notebook starts in New Madrid, Missouri as Lyell travels north along the Ohio River, visiting Illinois, New Harmony, Indiana, and Kentucky. The index is located in the back of the notebook on 9 unnumbered pages. Content warning: Lyell uses his Scientific Notebooks to gather evidence, based on both his own observation, by reviewing other people's works, by...
Dates:
27 March 1846 - 4 April 1846
Printed Papers, c.1829-1864
Series — Box Lyell Box 1.22 (Formerly Gen 119): Series Coll-203/9 (Lyell 9)
Identifier: Coll-203/9 (Lyell 9)
Scope and Contents
Printed Papers consists of:
Address delivered by Sir Charles Lyell at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London (1836)
Lithology of the Environs of Edinburgh by Dr Fleming (1856-1857)
Biographical notice of Sir Charles Lyell as President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1864)
Press cutting of letter from Sir...
Dates:
c.1829-1864