Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to
Found in 434 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Bayfield, Henry Wolsey to Charles Lyell, 4 May 1834 - 24 February 1867
Letters from Beaumont, Gustave de, to Charles Lyell, 19th century
Two letters in French, addressed from Nutford House and 10 Devonshire Street.
Letters from Beck, Henrik Henriksen to Charles Lyell, 1837
Dr Beck on Recent & Fossil Conchology – Copenhagen 1837. Geography of Shells
Notes from Henrik Henriksen Beck listing common Genera of marine animals by geographical zones. In these notes, Beck mainly lists mollusks in the Arctic Sea. Other zones such as the Atlantic Sea and the northern hemisphere are also featured in the list.
Letters from Beckles, Samuel Husbands to Charles Lyell, 25 December 1856 - 13 July 1857
Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Purbeck Oolite
2) Purbeck Dirt bed - December 12th day of finding the fossil mammal's jaw.
Letters from Bell, Lady Marian, to Charles Lyell, 26 June 1873 - February 1877
Condolences on the death of Mary E. Lyell. An account copied from Lady Bell's notebook titled ''Sir Charles and Lady Lyell'. Gives her account of meeting Lyell saying 'Mrs Somerville she introduced to us Charles Lyell as a 'very promising youth from Oxford'. We met often afterwards at Leonard Horner's- Geology was then their common pursuit".
Letters from Belt, Thomas to Charles Lyell, 1 February 1874 - 29 March 1874
Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Priority as to division of Upper and Lower Cambrian
2) Ice Scooping of Lakes
3) Talk with Jamieson on Glacial Periods and thanks for [book] Students Elements
4) On Geikies Ice Age.
Letters from Berthelot, Sabin to Charles Lyell, 12 February 1857
On Helix Tiarella and habitats of other land shells published as from [?] Canaries.
Letters from Bertrand de Doue, Jacques-Mathieu to Charles Lyell, 16 December 1836 - 23 September 1859
Letters relating to the Fossil Man of St Denise sent to Lyell, summarised as:
1) Fossils of Freshwater in Velay [Caymans?] Anthracotheriinae in wood dilat:. ruminants etc.
2) Coloured hand drawn map showing locations around Denise.
Letters from Beyrich, Heinrich Ernst to Charles Lyell, May 1857- 1859
Original letter in German with English translation. Original summary is "Beyrich May 1857 criticisms on supplement Barrande's Colonies".
Letters from Binkhorst J.T. to Charles Lyell, 23 July 1860 - 1861
Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Loess Fossil Man Caves of Meuse [Belgium]. Folio 286 is a map of the site
2) Leyden Coberg Human jaw Crahayes [sic] report
3) Maestricht human skulls
4) On cave-bones etc. 1860-1.