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Drawing entitled 'Il Balzo Di Aci' of a town with hills in the background and a river or lake in the foreground. Inscription in Italian reads "Veluto dallo scalo di Signora Maria della Scala a 7 Aprile 1858. Carlo Gemmellaro quest' Atimo suo [ ]sequi, all'eta di anni 71. A Sir Charles Lyell in Catania", (28 Settembre 1858).

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Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Gaetano Gemmellaro concerning the coast of Sicily, 19 May 1858.

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Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Gaetano Gemmellaro concerning the geology of Sicily and Mount Etna, 12 February 1858.

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Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Gaetano Gemmellaro concerning the Pliocene epoch on Mount Etna, 18 June 1858.

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Series of maps and plans which illustrate geological features and strata, including;
1. Hand-drawn map of Etna lava-flows;
2. Large-scale map of Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, with hand-coloured geological strata;
3. Hand-drawn geological section of Strathmore, Scotland;
4. Hand-drawn plan of a section of the Montrose coast
5. Additional printed maps - Bombay, Dublin.

Scope and Contents This notebook with green and pink marbled covers covers Lyell's journey from Nicolosi to Piazza. It contains notes in faint pencil and some ink on the stratification of southern Sicily; 'Duration of species'; and 'Extinction of species'. The front plate reads, "No 7, Sicily 1828, Nicolosi Dec 6th to Piazza Dec 22nd". The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of...

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Notes and correspondence on the geology of Mount Etna consists of:

Scope and Contents Approximately 75 mostly handwritten leaves, including a 2-page colour drawing of Burrum chundalle, an extract from a history of Louisiana by W. de Page du Pratz (1783); extract from a history of Sumatra by William Marsden (1783); extract from the 'Constitution of the German Empire', s.n., s.d.; extract from 'Baretti's Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy' (1775); extract from 'Baretti's Travels Thro' England Portugal Spain & France to Genoa (1760); extract from 'Travels thro'...