Footprints, Fossil
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Addresses and Speeches, c. 1850s - 1870s
Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.12: Series Coll-203/B14; Series Coll-203/B15
Identifier: Coll-203/B15
Scope and Contents
Series of printed and manuscript addresses given by Charles Lyell, including:
Printed Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, 20 February 1835. Lyell toasts Mantell's health.
Galley proof of an Address delivered to the Royal Institution, Friday 4 February, [1840s - after 1846] 'The Fossil footmarks of a reptile in the coal-formation of the...
Dates:
c. 1850s - 1870s
Letters from Hitchcock, Edward to Charles Lyell, 17 December 1843 - 30 August 1860
File — Box Box 1.7: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/133
Scope and Contents
The correspondence between Charles Lyell and Edward Hitchcock is mainly concerned with geology, specifically sandstone footprints. Lyell or his team, have summarised the letters, either on the envelope, or on the letter itself - usually in the space allocated to the address. Where there is a summary, it has been transcribed here.
'Hitchcock Dec[ember] 1843'. This letter is concerned with newly discovered...
Dates:
17 December 1843 - 30 August 1860
Lowell Lectures, Boston, 19 October 1852 - 26 November 1852
File
Identifier: Coll-203/B14/15
Scope and Contents
Since Lyell's last visit to the US, Louis Agassiz had given a series of Lowell Lectures in Autumn 1846, which Lyell had nominated him for, and Lyell had been invited by Prince Albert to join the Royal Commission for the Great Exhibition, held in Crystal Palace. Lowell travelled from Boston to London, and engaged Lyell to present yet another course of Lowell lectures in Autumn 1852.
Lyell had given six lectures at Royal Institution (4 of which dealt with American Geology). His new...
Dates:
19 October 1852 - 26 November 1852
Note about archaeological sites on Lios Mòr/Lismore, 2 September 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/3
Scope and Contents
Note about archaeological sites on Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, collected from Duncan Carmichael, which tells of 'Leaban Romhanaich' near Trai Dhonachi Ruai [Tràigh Donnachaidh Ruaidh] and footmarks of cattle at Dorlinn Achananduin [An Doirlinn, Achadun].
Dates:
2 September 1870
Notebook No.118, 19 September 1844 - 30 April 1845
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/118
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from September 19, 1844 to April 30, 1845 while in London. The index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 113-114. Notes are in pencil and ink – and there are several different hands writing in this notebook including Mary Lyell. The Notebook starts with a continuation of the work relating to the Haswell Pit Disaster. There are many notes relating to the United States and Lyell's manuscript for his book 'Travels in North America,...
Dates:
19 September 1844 - 30 April 1845
Notebook No.141, 15 April 1846 - 25 April 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/141
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes from 15 April to 25 April 1846 [the stated end date is inferred from the date recorded in the following notebook], having embarked from Cincinnati, Ohio on April 13th and traveling into Pennsylvania. The Lyells traveled on the steamer Clipper, continuing northward on the Ohio River from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh (arrived on April 16th), and then by carriage across the Alleghenies onto Philadelphia, a return visit destination. The Indian Mound south...
Dates:
15 April 1846 - 25 April 1846