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Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to

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Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Correspondence sent to Sir Charles Lyell

Found in 434 Collections and/or Records:

Letters from Whymper, Edward to Charles Lyell, 7 November 1871

 File — Box Box 1.13: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/289
Scope and Contents

Summarised as 'Scrambles in the Alps'.

Dates: 7 November 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

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: ...
Dates: 26 February 1839 - 12 December 1839
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

Letters from Wilkinson, Sir John Gardener to Charles Lyell, 25 November 1861 - 18 February 1863

 File — Box Box 1.13: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/291
Scope and Contents

Correspondence includes: discussion on bricks; watercolour sketches to scale, of sections of the mortar used in the Great Pyramid, and 2nd [sic] Pyramid, Egypt, and thickness of Nile deposit; drawing with measurements and projection.

Dates: 25 November 1861 - 18 February 1863
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

Letters from Williamson, William Crawford to Charles Lyell, 26 June 1854 - 20 March 1873

 File — Box Box 1.13: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/292
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z, including one ‘Miscellaneous’ section within the 'M' series. Each correspondent has been assigned a file number – there may be several folders within that file, evidencing the longevity and depth of the relationship between Lyell and the correspondent - for example his brother in law Charles Bunbury. Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the...
Dates: 26 June 1854 - 20 March 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

Letters from Wills, W.R to Charles Lyell, 2 April 1863

 File — Box Box 1.13: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/293
Scope and Contents

Summarised as 'Welsh Glaciers, changes of climate and of ice in Greenland, Old Danish Colonies abandoned and reinstated'.

Dates: 2 April 1863
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

Letters from Wilson, Sir Daniel to Charles Lyell, 13 December 1845

 File — Box Box 1.13: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/294
Scope and Contents

Summarised as 'Toronto Prehistoric Man'. Includes photocopy.

Dates: 13 December 1845
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

Letters from Winkler, Tiberius Cornelis to Charles Lyell, 7 July 1861 - 8 July 1861

 File — Box Box 1.14: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); Series Coll-203/1B
Identifier: Coll-203/1/295
Scope and Contents

Talks of Charles Darwin.

Dates: 7 July 1861 - 8 July 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

Letters from Wollaston, Thomas Vernon to Charles Lyell, 4 December 1854 - 21 January 1868

 File — Box Box 1.14: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); Series Coll-203/1B
Identifier: Coll-203/1/296
Scope and Contents

Shells of Madeira, includes complete list of fossil land shells of madeira - all 75 species.

Dates: 4 December 1854 - 21 January 1868
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

Letters from Wood, Searles Valentine Junior to Charles Lyell, 10 April 1869 - 2 May 1874

 File — Box Box 1.14: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); Series Coll-203/1B
Identifier: Coll-203/1/298
Scope and Contents

Shell list in '296, 2 of 4' of coralline crag shells also Mediterranean species.

Dates: 10 April 1869 - 2 May 1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche