Canary Islands
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Calculations of Barometrical Observations in Palma, Canary Islands, 12 July 1854
Calculations of Barometrical Observations in La Palma, Canary Islands giving heights in feet of various volcanic features including of the Central Ridge of the Caldera, 12 July 1854.
Geological cross section of Grand Canary from North to South, 1855
Geological cross section of Grand Canary from Maspalomas in the North to Banaderos Bay in the south showing rock types. The length of the land depicted in the cross section is 26 geographical miles and the greatest height is 6400 feet, 1855.
Grand Canary fossils, 1855
List entitled 'Grand [sic Gran] Canary fossils - numbered so as to count them along the side.
Grande Canaria, 1855
Handwritten article on the geology of Grande [sic Gran] Canaria and the way in which the rocks were formed. Seeming to be a summary of Lyell's observations while on the island, 1855 - it is not in his handwriting, and is perhaps written by Mary Lyell, or Georg Hartung.
Index - Madeira, 5 November 1856 - 1857
Index to Notebooks on Geology of Madeira, 186 - 197, c. 1858
Letter to Dr [Joseph Dalton] Hooker from Charles James Bunbury, 11 November 1854
Summary is noted by Lyell as 'Barometrial measurement of Heights'. Letter to Dr [Joseph Dalton] Hooker from Charles James Bunbury full of social chat, he mentions that "Mr Bunbury" [Henry Edward Bunbury, his father] gave a lecture to the Bury Atheneum on his recent trip to Madeira and Tenerife. He includes notes entitled " The Neutral Point of Sir C Lyell's Barometer", 11 November 1854.
Letter to Mary [Lyell] from [Charles James Bunbury], c 1850
Letter to Mary [Lyell] from [Charles James Bunbury] giving barometrical observations in feet which were taken on the Island of Gran Canaria. Bunbury states that he has passed these measurements to Dr Hooker in order that he might verify them, 1850s.
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Dr. William Baird, 20 June 1856
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from George Scrope, 29 July 1858
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from George Scrope concerning a paper dealing with the Upheaval Theory which Lyell had submitted for publication in the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions. Scrope is pleased with the paper which contains a challenge to the theory which he describes as an "intolerable absurdity". He discusses Homboldts Cosmos which he gave little credence to and goes on to discuss lava flows in Vesuvius, Madeira and Tenerife and the formation of pumice, 29 July 1858.