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 Wigham, J B to Charles Lyell, 26 February 1839 - 12 December 1839
File — Box Box 1.13: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/290
Scope and Contents
Mr. J. B. Wigham was writing from Heigham in Norfolk. In his death notice, dated 26th December 1851, in the Norfolk Chronicle, Wigham is described as "a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society, and was well known as having personally collected one of the best cabinets of tertiary fossils in the kingdom". Teh main themes of the letters are shells, Crags, Norfolk/Norwich, and Sand pipes, and they are summarised as:
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Dates:
26 February 1839 - 12 December 1839
Letters from Wood, Colonel E R to Charles Lyell, 6 February 1861
File — Box Box 1.14: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); Series Coll-203/1B
Identifier: Coll-203/1/297
Scope and Contents
Summarised as 'Col, Wood Swansea, Gower Caves 1861 Reindeer horns'. Also includes 'Mr. Woods' notes on Touraine Fossiles [Mary's writing] -being a table of species names of Touraine Shells, and reference to pg 47 [is actually page 46] of NB 86.
Dates:
6 February 1861