Notebook No.61

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-203/A1/61
• Dates of Creation:September 1835- January 1836
• Name of Creator:
  Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  116 folios
  58 Leaves
  1 volume

• Scope and Content

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  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. 1,2,4, Danish corals
  p. 31,33, [Danish] paper, notes for,
  p. 33,41,42,45, [Danish] geology
  p. 8,19,24,25,28,30,37,39,48,52,84,107,110,113,114, Mem[oranda]
  p. 10-13, Elements, wood [...] for,
  p. 16, Konig on Guadaloupe shells
  p. 16,17, Loess, shark in,
  p. 17,19, Murray's Account,
  p. 20,22,48, Fish, fossil
  p. 26, Nelson on the Bermudas
  p. 31, Beck, Dr. on Danish geology
  p. 35,36, [Beck, Dr.] on shells common to Faxoe + Maestricht
  p. 40, [Beck, Dr.] on Faxoe corals
  p. 49, [Beck, Dr.] on Terebratulo
  p. 51, [Beck, Dr.] shells wanted by
  p. 76, [Beck, Dr.] on agency of ice
  p. 55 to 60,74, [Beck, Dr.] on Crag shells
  p. 62, [Beck, Dr.] identifications of shells
  p. 75, [Beck, Dr.] his paper on Moen
  p. 79, [Beck, Dr.] on course of study in Conchology
  p. 92, [Beck, Dr.] names of shells given by
  p. 96, [Beck, Dr.] Crag shells taken to Paris
  p. 97, [Beck, Dr.] names of Quebec shells
  p. 104, [Beck, Dr.] on number of shells
  p. 106, [Beck, Dr.] on rare genera
  p. 80,109, [Beck, Dr.] how to send things to,
  p. 20,22, London clay fish
  p. 39, Principles of Geol[ogy] list of copies given away
  p. 40, Capt[ain] M. White
  p. 45, Cephalopoda
  p. 46, Faxoe + Maestricht
  p. 20,22,47, Agassiz
  p. 47, Branston, cuts sent to,
  p. 49,69,91,102, Legenda
  p. 61,77,82,88,95,97, Diary
  p. 52,53,54, Caldcleugh on Chilian earthquake
  p. 75, Pingel, Dr.
  p. 76, Shropshire shells
  p. 77, Erratic blocks
  p. 77, Danish Man-of-war striking on rocks conveyed by ice
  p. 78,82, Shells, price of work
  p. 81,83,87,89,90,102, Astarte
  p. 83, Cuming's Collection
  p. 85, Forchhammer on Moen
  p. 97, Capt[ain] Bayfied's shells
  p. 10? [Captain Bayfied's] mem[oranda] for
  p. 110,111, Shell dealers
  p. 111, British testacea, [...]
  p. 110, Sowerby's Min. Con.
  p. 115, Charpentier on erratics
  p. 118, Danish fish
  p. ?0, Sheppey foss[il] fish
  Addresses
  p. 3, Delporte
  p. 80,109, Beck, Dr.
  p. 82, Barton
  p. 102, Watson
  p. 111, Hoffman
  p. 111, Graham
  p. 111, Walton

• Archivist's Note

  Created by Elise Ramsay, Project Archivist, May 2021

• Personal Names

  Konig, Charles, 1774-1851 (German naturalist | Keeper of the department of Natural History in the British Museum 1813-1851)