Scope and Contents Summarised by Lyell as 1) Captain Bayfield. Cliffs of sand and clay of Lake Erie 2) transport of rocks by icebergs etc. fossils of Beaufort formation 3) Boulders 4) mingling of Tert[iary]and Recent shells - ballast with fossils from English strata thrown into St. Lawrence. Recent and Tert[iary] shells sent home. Boulders 5) List of Genera (according to Lamarck) found by Captain Bayfield in the Gulf and River St Lawrence 6) Contortion in sand hills carried by...

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Written by Dawson whilst in Pictou, Nova Scotia. Contents include 'Dawson on geology of Nova Scotia', 'Shubenacadie section maps', 'Foot tracks of animals in coal strata', ‘Dawson Scriptural' , 'Prince Edward, coal? or New Red?', 'travels', 'animal tracks and the impact of rain on these tracks.

Scope and Contents Notes, many on American geology, thoughts on theories of Geologists Henry Woodward, W. Morris, and the inventor Charles Babbage, expenses related to future lectures, and plans to go to Cork, Ireland. This index is not in Lyell's own words, but is notes from working with the notebook in the process of cataloguing. A complete index in Lyell's own words will be published in due course. Index...

Scope and Contents This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from September 19, 1844 to April 30, 1845 while in London. The index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 113-114. Notes are in pencil and ink – and there are several different hands writing in this notebook including Mary Lyell. The Notebook starts with a continuation of the work relating to the Haswell Pit Disaster. There are many notes relating to the United States and Lyell's manuscript for his book 'Travels in North America,...