England -- Norfolk
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Letters from Wigham, J B to Charles Lyell, 26 February 1839 - 12 December 1839
File — Box Box 1.13: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/290
Scope and Contents
Mr. J. B. Wigham was writing from Heigham in Norfolk. In his death notice, dated 26th December 1851, in the Norfolk Chronicle, Wigham is described as "a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society, and was well known as having personally collected one of the best cabinets of tertiary fossils in the kingdom". Teh main themes of the letters are shells, Crags, Norfolk/Norwich, and Sand pipes, and they are summarised as:
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Dates:
26 February 1839 - 12 December 1839
Notebook No.26, June 1829 - June 1829
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 1: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/26
Scope and Contents
This brown leather notebook contains brief notes of wastage of cliffs along coast of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk. There is a list of Aix insects p.42. There are many blank pages and notes without references or context. Contents are written primarily in pencil, and sketches in ink. On the front cover is written in ink "1. June 1829". The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning...
Dates:
June 1829 - June 1829