Vesuvius (Italy)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Additional themed folders
File — Box Lyell Box 1.18 (Formerly Gen 117): Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); Series Coll-203/7 (Lyell 7)
Identifier: Coll-203/7/1
Scope and Contents
A series of folders reflecting Lyell's work, which contain editorial manuscripts and correspondence; some with their original newspaper wrapping. Papers on lectures have been removed and placed with the other records in that series. These files were found at the end of the Offprints, but have originally been part of the 1927 gift from the family, but were separated at some point, and accessioned into the Library from the School of Geology in 1975. Their old references have been...
Dates:
1806-1874
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: American geologists, 1878-1907
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/13/1
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: American geologists sub-series consists of:
- 67 letters and postcards, alphabetically arranged (1878-1907).
Dates:
1878-1907
General view of the Forum with the Temple of Jupiter. Vesuvius in the distance, September 1851
Item
Identifier: Coll-20/1/8/15
Scope and Contents
hotograph of general view of the Forum with the Temple of Jupiter and Vesuvius in the distance, Pompeii, Sep [18]51.
Dates:
September 1851
[House of Pansa from the street. Pompeii...], September 1851
Item
Identifier: Coll-20/1/8/7
Scope and Contents
Photograph of House of Pansa from the street, Pompeii with Vesuvius in the distance.
Dates:
September 1851
Index Book, Notes for paper on modern lavas of Vesuvius & Etna, January 1858
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A5/15
Scope and Contents
Introduced on page 1 as 'Note Book for paper on Etna & Vesuvius & structure of modern lavas. Refers to Scientific Notebooks 226-229, and then 230-231, with notes with page reference on the contents of these notebooks as well as to Lyell's reading on the subject amd drawings.
Dates:
January 1858
Manuscript Papers relating to Published Works, c1840 - c1855
Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.14: Series Coll-203/B18; Series Coll-203/B17
Identifier: Coll-203/B18
Scope and Contents
Contains extensive autograph manuscript drafts of texts, with cancellations, revisions and additions, and loose illustrative plates and maps. See also Coll-203/12 for similar material.
'On the Geology of some parts of Madeira' by Sir Charles Lyell. Notes on text about Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Contains part index to Notebook 195, reference Coll-203/A1/195. See also Coll-203/2 from which this item may...
Dates:
c1840 - c1855
Notebook No.18, 31 October 1828 - 15 November 1828
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 1: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/18
Scope and Contents
This brown leather notebook covers Lyell's activity from Ishcia to Naples. It contains geological notes on Herculaneum, Pompeii, Versuvius; Notes on William Hamilton on great earthquakes in Calabria in 1782; 'Differences between geologist and ordinary observer'; 'Partial activity in the agents of change'; 'Migration'. The front cover plate reads "No 5 Italy 1828 Ischia to Naples Oct 31st to Nov. 15th." The following table of contents is...
Dates:
31 October 1828 - 15 November 1828
[The Peristylum, surrounded with colonnade & Impluvium of the house of Pansa...], September 1851
Item
Identifier: Coll-20/1/8/6
Scope and Contents
Photograph of the Peristylum, surrounded with colonnade & Impluvium of the House of Pansa. In the background are the gardens behind & Vesuvius. Pompeii.
Dates:
September 1851