Canary Islands

Scope and Contents This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s geological travels with George Hartung around Las Palmas, Canary Islands in the company of Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury, and is one of the longest. It starts March 21st, 1854, complying Lyell’s observations in La Palma focusing on Caldera of Palma, Alejanado [Bejenado?], Barranco de las Angustias, Fuencaliente, Tazacorte, Barranco del Pinar, San Pedro, Puerto la Ville, and Santa Cruz de Palma. This notebook primarily...

Scope and Contents This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s geological travels around the Canary Islands with Georg Hartung, Charles Bunbury, Mary Horner, and Frances Horner in the company of Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury. It starts March 23rd, 1854, complying Lyell’s observations in Tenerife focusing on La Orotava, Barranco de las Lajas, San Pedro, Valley of Taoro, Tigaiga, Barranco de la Raya, Mount Teide, Güímar, La Canada de los Guancheros, Degollado del Cedro, Icod et Alto,...

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Admiralty Maps by Whom.
Notes giving a list of places, Tenerife, Palma, Lanzarote, Santa Cruz, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria. Beside each place name is the name of a [naval] officer and a date. 1834-1838.

Scope and Contents This series contains the information gathered by Sir Charles Lyell on a visit to Madeira and the Canary Islands, accompanied by Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury, and their servants, in the winter of 1853 until the spring of 1854. Lyell met up with, and worked intensively alongside Georg Hartung. They studied the volcanic and geological features of the island including fossils and shells. There is a detailed 'Index to the Notebooks on Geology of Madeira' in the series of...

Scope and Contents Packet of notes, marked Madeira B: MS [manuscript] Notes with Hartung October 1854 MS Index to Dana Features original sketches of geological features by Lyell, including vents of a volcano, similar to that of Arran in Notebook 62 - and notes relating to articles [Lyell creates an 'index' to the articles for reference]. Notes on Dana's paper [referred to as Canary Isles and Madeira paper, actual title not given] Covers Origins of Caldera of Palma. Index...

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Notes - including sketches - of a visit to the Canary Isles and Madeira with Georg Hartung, to look at the geological formations caused by volcanoes on the islands. TNotes on trip to Lanzarote and Fuerteventura with James Tennant to look at minerals. Index of notes on Madeira & the Canaries with G. Hartung. May-June 1855 - also refers to page numbers in Notebook 203.

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Notes on shells and fossils, 30 November 1855, headed with the title 'Brit[ish] Museum' indicating they were observed there, rather than on the island itself.

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Notes titled 'Brit[ish] Museum indicating shells were held there.
Lists of shells found on a beach on Porto Santo, also notes where else they are found or whether extinct.
Grand Canary shells including lists that are extinct and extant, 3-7 December 1855.

Scope and Contents The collection holds a 19th century Irish manuscript with covering letter dated 1884. There are a large number of letters and postcards spanning the years 1881 to 1916. The collection also consists of notebooks on archaeological, philological and linguistic topics; drawings of archaeological artefacts; bundles of studies for The Pre- and Proto-Historic Finns; material on the tabulation of Finnish folk tales; printed items, notes, photographs of the Canary Islands; material including...