Canada -- Nova Scotia
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Letters from Bayfield, Henry Wolsey to Charles Lyell, 4 May 1834 - 24 February 1867
File — Box Box 1.1: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/13
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...
Dates:
4 May 1834 - 24 February 1867