Fieldwork
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Billets of meetings, 1865-1990
Series — Box MS 2930-MS 2931: Series Coll-43/6
Identifier: Coll-43/6
Scope and Contents
Billets of meetings consist of:
- billets of meetings
- programmes of excursions
Dates:
1865-1990
Correspondence and invoices relating to geological excursions, 1950-1957
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-43 ::: MS 2935.2
Scope and Contents
Miscellany consists of:
- blank stationery
- correspondence
- details of excursions
- invoices
Dates:
1950-1957
Excursions Committee, 1939-1949
Item
Identifier: Coll-43 ::: MS 2935.1
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing minutes of the Excursions Committee and dates and places of geological excursions.
Dates:
1939-1949
Letters from Charles Lyell to Mary Lyell, 21 May 1834 - 10 July 1834
File — Box Box 3.7: Series Coll-203/B7
Identifier: Coll-203/B7/5A
Scope and Contents
Written whilst on his field trip to Sweden. These records were originally located along with the correspondence from Charles to his family, and have been separated out and added to this series.
On board ship to Hamburg, published. 21 May 1834
At Copenhagen, published. 28 May 1834.
At Copenhagen, published. 1 June 1834.
Lund in Scandia, published. 5 June...
Dates:
21 May 1834 - 10 July 1834
Men Farming in a Field in Africa, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1003
Scope and Contents
Photograph of men using hoes to farm a field in Africa in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Men Farming in Africa, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/971
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a group of men working in a field with hoes in Africa in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Notebook No.192, February 1854
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/192
Scope and Contents
This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s geological travels around Madeira with Georg Hartung, in the company of Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury. This notebook is from February 1854 and covers Charles Lyell’s travels around the islands of Madeira and Porto Santo with specific notes on Sao Vicente, Curral das Freiras, Pico Santo, Santo António, Pico Ruivo, Funchal, Pico Grande, Câmara de Lobos, Boqueirão, Santa Cruz, Porto Novo, Pico dos Bodes, Caminho do Pico da...
Dates:
February 1854
"Polar diaries" and slides documenting David Sugden's research expeditions, 1962-2022
Series
Identifier: Coll-2044/2
Scope and Contents
This series contains six original travel and research notebooks, seven printed and edited diaries, and four boxes of slides, all documenting David Sugden's field work and research expeditions throughout his career, mainly to Antarctica and the South Shetland Islands, the Falkland Islands, East Greenland, and the Pindus Mountains, Greece.There are six original diaries, in notebooks:
"South...
Dates:
1962-2022
Publications and printed items, 1934-1990
Series — Box MS 2932: Series Coll-43/7
Identifier: Coll-43/7
Scope and Contents
Publications and printed items consist of:
History of the Edinburgh Geological Society
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Geological Society
The Edinburgh Geologist
facimile reprint of James Hutton's Theory of the Earth
exhibition...
Dates:
1934-1990
Reaping on Farm [Lt?] Brassey's Farms, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1047
Scope and Contents
Photograph of men using horse drawn farm machinery to reap [wheat or hay] on [Lt?] Brassey's Farms in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s