Roy, Glen (Highland, Scotland)
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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Home-Milne, David to Charles Lyell, 24 August 1871 - 9 May 1874
File — Box Box 1.7: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/135
Scope and Contents
Lyell's own summarises are given in quotation marks:
1) Milne Home Aug '71 Macclesfield Shells'
2) Milne Home- The pact-Roman use in Firth of Forth, June 1872'. The letter discusses Home's work on a discovery of a stone covered in Roman Sculpture at Bo'ness on the Forth Estuary.
3) Letter contains information about the Roman tablet found about 15 feet above the Kish Water Mark.
4) Milne Home 'on Post Roman use of land, Sept 5 1872'. Milne-Home to visit where the...
Dates:
24 August 1871 - 9 May 1874
Notebook No.153, 19 July 1847 - 6 September 1847
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/153
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 19 July 1847 to 18 September 1847 [the stated end date is inferred from the start date of the following notebook]. There is an abstract of a ‘Times Sept. 6. 1847’ article and a discussion in response to a letter from Charles Darwin dated 8 September 1847. Lyell is home in Kinnordy with no excursions or visited locales being explicitly recorded during this time. The approximate first third of the daily entries are focused on the management of...
Dates:
19 July 1847 - 6 September 1847
Notebook No.256, 20 April 1869 - 10 September 1869
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/256
Scope and Contents
This dark green notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 20 April 1869 to 10 September 1869. Lyell starts in England and travels through Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria, with special attention to the Lake District. He then travels to Scotland, and from Edinburgh through Perthshire and the Highlands. Transcription note: This notebook was written by Charles, Mary and Arabella Buckley. The index is written entirely by...
Dates:
20 April 1869 - 10 September 1869
Notebook No.257, September 1869 - April 1870
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/257
Transcription note:
This dark green notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 10 September 1869 to 23 April 1870, and continues from the previous volume (256) starting in Scotland. Lyell travels from the Scottish Highlands, to Glasgow and Dumfries, then onto Devonshire, Suffolk, Somerset, and finishes back in Devon. Lyell attends meetings of various Societies, and writes about his correspondence with and the work of other notable researchers of the time. ...
Dates:
September 1869 - April 1870
[View in Glen Roy taken from below Glen Fintec], 1817
piece
Identifier: Coll-10/7/105
Scope and Contents
[View in Glen Roy taken from below Glen Fintec]. Etching. 1817. Macculloch, John, 1773-1835, Artist; Cooke, George, 1781-1834, Engraver.
Note: Etched state of plate published in Transactions of the Geological Society (1817), lacking title. In pencil, below left: 'Inverness'.
Dates:
1817
[View in Glen Roy taken from near Glen Fintec], 1817
piece
Identifier: Coll-10/7/106
Scope and Contents
[View in Glen Roy taken from near Glen Fintec]. Line engraving. 1817. Macculloch, John, 1773-1835, Artist; Cooke, George, 1781-1834, Engraver.
Published in: Transactions of the Geological Society (1817).
Note: Pencil annotation on album page: 'Parallel roads, Glen Roy'.
Dates:
1817