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Bologna (Italy)

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook No.15, 14 September 1828-9 October 1828

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 1: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/15
Scope and Contents This notebook, with marbled brown covers, documents Lyell's trip from Verona to Florence, Italy. It includes geological notes, discussion on the object of geology; Action of Earthquakes; Modern causes; observation on the Colours of fossil shells, sketches of maps and routes, Breccia and shells, Hippopotamus jaw 160, illustration. The front cover plate is titled; "No 2 Italy 1828. Verona Sept 14th, Florence Oct 9th." The following table...
Dates: 14 September 1828-9 October 1828

Travel Journal, 5 June 1818 - 2 Sept 1818

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A2/1
Scope and Contents Journal of a tour made by Sir Charles Lyell in 1818 with his father, mother and his two older sisters. Pages are unnumbered, but there are dates throughout and the route is given at the top of every page. Lyell writes in a journal style, describing his excursions to geological sites, visits with his father - to visit botanists and a charity school - other people joining their trip (their encounter with a lady at Freiburg noted as 'one of the singular events of our tour'), and witnesses Lord...
Dates: 5 June 1818 - 2 Sept 1818