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Pompeii (Extinct city)

 Subject

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook No.18, 31 October 1828 - 15 November 1828

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 1: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/18
Scope and Contents This brown leather notebook covers Lyell's activity from Ishcia to Naples. It contains geological notes on Herculaneum, Pompeii, Vesuvius; Notes on William Hamilton on great earthquakes in Calabria in 1782; 'Differences between geologist and ordinary observer'; 'Partial activity in the agents of change'; 'Migration'. The front cover plate reads "No 5 Italy 1828 Ischia to Naples Oct 31st to Nov. 15th." The following table of contents is...
Dates: 31 October 1828 - 15 November 1828
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook of John Bonar Athol Gordon (1868-1941)

 Fonds
Identifier: MS GOR 2
Scope and Contents

Notebook containing two lectures. Topics include William Cowper and Pompeii. Pencil inscription on front fly 'Rev. J. B. Athol Gordon?'. c.1900

154 numbered pages, remainder of notebook is blank.

Dates: c.1900
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Section 8: Pompeii, September 1851

 Series
Identifier: Coll-20/1/8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of five boxes of photographs showing scenes of Ireland, Paris, Switzerland, Rome, Pompei, Athens, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Cairo, Thebes, Abu Simbel, Nubia, Petra, and more.

Dates: September 1851
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Photographs and Diaries of John Shaw Smith / Photographs