Scope and Contents

Probably Scottish (c.1828). Album bearing mounted moss specimens, each specimen with accompanying contemporary ink annotations, interleaved with additional blanks, modern notes on the album contents on pastedown and flyleaves. Original vellum. Borders with gilt foliage roll.

Scope and Contents

Photograph of samples of dead seedling heather and moss on decaying Sphagnum, lichen on the heather branch and purple Molina growing through living Sphagnum acutifolium.

Scope and Contents

Note about a road probably between Tolstadh Bho Thuath and Nis/Ness, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis, which reads 'Form of a road cut in moss most of way - places here & there unmade. - road simply moss mud.'

Scope and Contents

Note about crotal [moss] that sailors never wear cloth made from it as it sinks if they fall out and that this sinking is the 'revenge' from the stones off which the crotal is taken.

Scope and Contents The notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from May to June 11th 1844 while in London. It then continues through June 13th to July 27th in Scotland. Much of the content is about an upcoming trip to the United States - and also covers research on Canada. Notes are in penci and ink. The notebook index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 112-115. Pages 67-72 is an Essay on the 'Constitution of the United States'. Lyell's own index...

Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of men standing around a tile drainage pipe in a ditch in a field of Barochan moss in the mid 20th century.

Scope and Contents

Vocabulary probably picked up on Carmichael's trip to Siolaigh [Shillay, Caolas na Hearadh/Sound of Harris] including words for a shallow creek, moss and fish gills.

Scope and Contents

Photograph of four samples of plants: worthless cotton-sedge; 'flow' peat; Sphagnum cumbifolium; and draw-moss showing flowering stem that's broken and folded back.