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Mexican War, 1846-1848

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook No.143, 4 May 1846 - 12 May 1846

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/143
Scope and Contents This notebook contains Lyell’s notes during his second trip to the United States, dated 5 May 1846, to 11 May 1846. The volume starts with Lyell in Baltimore, travelling through Philadelphia, New York City, Albany, and Troy, New York State. On pg. 12 Lyell notes seeing a humming bird in Miss Watson's Greenhouse. Lyell spends much of his time in upstate New York with a few colleagues: Joseph Cogswell (American librarian), Ebenezer Emmons (American Geologist), James Hall (American...
Dates: 4 May 1846 - 12 May 1846
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Scrapbooks of presscuttings, 1843-1868

 Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 1.22 (Formerly Gen 119): Series Coll-203/10 (Lyell 10)
Identifier: Coll-203/10 (Lyell 10)
Scope and Contents

Presscuttings consist of:


  1. 1 indexed volume
  2. 1 packet of presscuttings
Dates: 1843-1868
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell