Notebook No.20

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-203/A1/20
• Dates of Creation:6 December 1828-22 December 1828
• Name of Creator:
  Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  190 folios
  95 Leaves
  1 volume

• Scope and Content

  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 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. 1, Licodia degli Monaco
  p. 2, Biancaville
  p. 6, Paterno
  p. 6, Aderno
  p. 8, La Motta
  p. 16, Misterbianco
  p. 26, Plain of Catania
  p. 28, Valley of San Paolo
  p. 30, Primosoli
  p. 32, [Primosoli] section
  p. 36, Plateau of Madonna di Malati
  p. 38, Lentini
  p. 40, [Lentini] to Villa Desononda
  p. 46, LaGozzo degli Martiri
  p. 46, Melilli
  p. 50, [Melilli] Paroco
  p. 54, Grotto's of Pantalica
  p. 56, Sortino
  p. 60, Valley of Anapo
  p. 61, Floridia
  p. 66, Ear of Dionysius
  p. 66, Syracuse
  p. 70, La Montagna d'Avola
  p. 76, Syracuse to Alvola
  p. 80, R. Anapus
  p. 85, Noto
  p. 86, [Noto] and Pachino
  p. 90, Capo Passero
  p. 93, Pachino to Spaccaforno
  p. 102, Spaccaforno to Scicli
  p. 104, Scogletti
  p. 110, Terramuova
  p. 120, Torre della Falconara
  p. 122, Licata
  p. 129, [Licata] to Palma
  p. 131, Girgenti
  p. 138, Montagna della Angeli Caltanisetta
  p. 143, M. Fromaggio D[itt]o
  p. 148, Piazza

• Archivist's Note

  Created by Elise Ramsay, Project Archivist, April 2021

• Geographical Names

  Catania, Italy

  Sicily, Italy

  Etna, Mount, Italy

  Pantalica, Extinct city