Notebook No.24
- Reference:GB 237 Coll-203/A1/24
- Dates of Creation:March 1829- March 1829
- Name of Creator:
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:112 folios56 Leaves1 volume
Scope and Content
This brown leather notebook contains mostly very brief and miscellaneous notes and references. The writing is done all in ink, with a few sketches. There is no front plate, just ink "March 1829". The inside cover reads: Mr C Lyell, 9 Crown Office Row, Temple.
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 digital surrogates using the platform Transkribus. When known, Lyell's abbreviations and contractions have been expanded using brackets []. When writing is unclear, and transcription is not possible, this is denoted using [...]. Quotation marks are Lyell's own notation for ditto, as is the abbreviation "d'o". The inclusion of [sic] indicates the misspelling of a word is deliberate and taken from the notebook.
p.5, Currents + Valleys
p.9, Silex, quantity conveys to sea in 30 years by one spring
p.9, Waste of Mountains
p.10, German theology
p.16,17,13, Pharisee
p.16,17,13, Galilco
p.14, Sudden transit[ion] in all basins
p.16, Oolite, how formed
p.19, Egypt, shells of
p.19, Peron on shells at Temor
p.20, Ferns, Brown on fossil
p.21, Cromer, waste of coast
p.24, Ramond, on the sea
p.25, Earth round, Psalm 24th [agt]
p.26, Rivers, running water
p.29, Petrifying wood, Danube Lough neagh.
p.29, Floating of wood
p.37, Volcanic rocks
p.43, M. limestone lead of Bristol cont[inued] sharks teet
p.43, Scotch limest[one] d[itt]o
p.48, Croydon, section
p.51, Mr. Bowdich's shells
p.54, Institutes of Menu.
p.59, Pholodomya like Brora; coalfield one thrown up by hurricane on Tortola
p.60, Crag + London clay fossils
p.87, 62, Stars seen at Bedford
p.66, Bedfordsh[ire] no escarp-ment formed by chalk in
p.68, Ouse, R. section on the left bank of the, at Coxe's Pits
p.70, Calabria, lake formed in 1783 seen in 1820 by Capt[ain] Smyth
p.70, Earthq[uake] in Dante? D[itt]o
p.72, Bedford section
p.74, Capt[ain] Smyth on Genoa N[ew] S[outh] Wales, Calabria [et cetera]
p.76, Linosa, 4 craters in, belongs to Capt[ain] Smyth
p.77, Stromboli, Lipari + Columbretes
p.78, Ithaca, earthq[uake] in harbour felt by Capt[ain] Smyth
p.79, Pantellaria, Ionian is[land] Porwer, Lampedusa
p.80, Level of Medit[erannea]n - Capt[ain] Smyth
p.82, Bidenham meadows, sect[ion]
p.84, Sect[ion] of rubble + clay
p.86, Adriatic, greatest depth
p.86, M[ount] Magella all composed of lava + tuff, 7000 ft.
p.89, Encke's comet
p.91, Rennells Herodotus, ext[...]
p.90, Double stars
p.91, Deltas, from Rennell
p.87, Sir. W. Herschell on the solar system, ref[erence] toArchivist's Note
Created by Elise Ramsay, Project Archivist, April 2021
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