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Lectures and Lecturing

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Lectures on Geology, 1832-1833

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/8 (Lyell 8)
Scope and Contents

Lectures on geology consists of:


  1. manuscript lecture notes for lectures given at King's College London and the Royal Institution and a printed programme for a series of lectures given at King's College London in 1833 (1832-1833).
Dates: 1832-1833

Letter to Dr [Joseph Dalton] Hooker from Charles James Bunbury, 11 November 1854

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 33-35
Scope and Contents

Summary is noted by Lyell as 'Barometrial measurement of Heights'. Letter to Dr [Joseph Dalton] Hooker from Charles James Bunbury full of social chat, he mentions that "Mr Bunbury" [Henry Edward Bunbury, his father] gave a lecture to the Bury Atheneum on his recent trip to Madeira and Tenerife. He includes notes entitled " The Neutral Point of Sir C Lyell's Barometer", 11 November 1854.

Dates: 11 November 1854

Notebook No.107, 2 March 1843- 22 May 1843

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/107
Scope and Contents Notes, many on American geology, thoughts on theories of Geologists Henry Woodward, W. Morris, and the inventor Charles Babbage, expenses related to future lectures, and plans to go to Cork, Ireland. This index is not in Lyell's own words, but is notes from working with the notebook in the process of cataloguing. A complete index in Lyell's own words will be published in due course. Index...
Dates: 2 March 1843- 22 May 1843

Notebook No.117, 1 August 1844-18 September 1844

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/117
Scope and Contents This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 1 August to 18 September 1844 while in London. It then continues through 26 September to 2 October in York. He visits T.S. Spedding at Mirehouse on Bassenthwaite. The final section of the notebook, through 21 October, pertains to Lyell and Michael Faraday’s participation in an inquiry of the 1844 Haswell coal mine explosion that killed 95 people. Notes are in a mixture of pencil and ink. The notebook index is located in the back of the...
Dates: 1 August 1844-18 September 1844