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Sweden -- Stockholm

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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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

Notebook No.55, 26 June 1834 - December 1834

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 3: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/55
Scope and Contents This notebook was kept by Lyell on a trip to Sweden. It comprises notes on rise of land in Sweden - marks on rocks, etc. Notes are in ink and pencil, and include sketches, lists, observations. Page 55 includes a list of questions Lyell wishes to know the local dialect for, providing an insight into his travels and his work. There are multiple blank pages. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own...
Dates: 26 June 1834 - December 1834

Notebook No.60, 22 August 1835 - 20 September 1835

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 3: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/60
Scope and Contents This blue leather notebook, contains Lyell's notes from Oberhansen, Switzerland to Bonn, Prussia. The front plate reads "No 60 August 22nd to September 20th 1835", and the index is pasted to the back cover. Contents are geological observations with sketches mostly in pencil, some ink. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from...
Dates: 22 August 1835 - 20 September 1835