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14. Black notebook entitled "Notes on Brain"; notes on literature. From the other end of the notebook: notes on anatomical dissections.

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11. Black notebook entitled "Studies on upright postion and curvature of the spine" notes on the literature. Notes on the spleen and kidneys; draft lecture on dissection and structure of the abdomen.

Scope and Contents This notebook is written primarily in ink. Subjects include scholarship and university arrangements in other nations, religion, and notes on recent geological discoveries. on page 121 there is a list of ch[apters], indexed as 'essays' indicating Lyell's notes on his proposed book. Three pages are missing. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook,...

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Photograph of Dr W. Siller dissecting a chicken; photograph of Professor Kushner shaking hands with Alan Greenwood in an office (the back of the photograph is addressed to Greenwood from Kushner).

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Story collected from Dr Aisley, Coillemore House [Killiemor House, Am Muile/Isle of Mull] telling how he dissected a royal subject while in Edinburgh University when he was an assistant to Professor Go[o]dsir. The royal subject was Prince Sobieski of Poland, who had been wounded in battle and escaped to Dùn Èideann/Edinburgh. He died in the infirmary of his wounds. The end of the story is very truncated and the text has been scored through in pencil.