Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Correspondence sent to Sir Charles Lyell
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Brown, Reverend Thomas to Charles Lyell, no date
File — Box Box 1.1: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/37
Scope and Contents
Summarised by Lyell as:
1) List by Reverend Thomas Brown "List of Shells found at Elie at Fifeshire" descriptions of the shells found at Elie along with their latin names.
2) Cut out newspaper article describing a Royal Society meeting in which Rev. Brown talks about his findings in Fife, focusing on the clay deposits and the shells found at Eile and the implications of these findings from a geologist perspective. Also mentions the Principle of the Royal Society and...
Dates:
no date
Letters from Evans John, to Charles Lyell, 17 May 1862-18 October 1872
File — Box Box 1.4: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/75
Scope and Contents
This series is split into 5 folders, and Lyell summarises the letters as:
Folder 1
1) 'Evans, ice-chisels-difference of weapons at St Acheul & Abbeville'
2) 'Evans, J. Stan hatchet Northhmptn, Sept 27 1862' Includes a drawing of the tool
3) 'Evans, John Jaw & teeth of Archaeopteryx, Jan 16 1863'
4) 'Evans, John Feb 18 1863, Errata 'Antiquity of Man' flint tools & Icklingham'
5) Summerhouse Hill hatchet, sketch of, [includes] Wyatt's...
Dates:
17 May 1862-18 October 1872