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    Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    List of fossils found on Grand Canary Island
    1855
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-203/2/folio(s) 207-208
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 leaf
    Language:English
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  • 2
    Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    Lists of fossils found at Porto Santo
    1855
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-203/2/folio(s) 205-206
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 leaf
    Language:English
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  • 3
    Papers of Joseph Black and family
    Letter from Dr John Heysham to Joseph Black
    01 November 1783
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-16/I/130-131
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 4
    Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    Sketches of shells with notes
    1856
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-203/2/folio(s) 226-228
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 leaf
    Language:English
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  • 5
    Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    Notes relating to shells found on Porto Santo
    1 December 1855
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-203/2/folio(s) 169-172
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:3 Leaves
    Language:English
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  • 6
    Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    Notes relating to fossil shell species
    4 May [1856]
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-203/2/folio(s) 233
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 leaf
    Language:English
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  • 7
    Papers of Professor Edward Forbes (1815-1854)
    1833-1854
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-133
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 volume, 10 letters, 1 drawing
    Language:English
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  • 8
    Roslin Slide Collection
    The Fossil "Desert Horse"
    1870s-1930s
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1434/323
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:82mm by 82mm 1 slide
    Language:English
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  • 9
    Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Pedro Maffiotte
    4 July 1854
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-203/2/folio(s) 198-199
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 10
    Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    Notes on numbers of shells in Porto Santo and Madeira excluding the Desertes
    1856
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-203/2/folio(s) 229-230
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:2 Leaves
    Language:English
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  • 11
    Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    Notes on Grand Canary and Madeira and Porta Santa shells and lists of shells
    30 November 1855
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-203/2/folio(s) 165-168
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 notebook
    Language:English
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  • 12
    Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from William Benjamin Carpenter
    9 July 1850
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-203/1 folio(s) 495-496
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 13
    Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Samuel Pickworth Woodward
    19 February 1856
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-203/2/folio(s) 237-239
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 14
    Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Herbert Bolton
    16 July 1894
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/57
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 15
    Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Herbert Bolton
    c1894
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/56
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 16
    Papers of Joseph Black and family
    Letter from George Burnett (nephew) to Joseph Black
    23 September 1771
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-16/I/38-39
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 17
    Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Japanese geologist
    1870
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-74/14/6
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter None which affect the use of this material
    Language:English
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  • 18
    Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    Draft manuscript concerning the geology of Madeira with index
    June 1856
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-203/2/folio(s) 301-460
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 manuscript documents (approx)
    Language:English
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  • 19
    Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from William Carruthers
    29 March 1870
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-203/1 folio(s) 530
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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  • 20
    Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Richard Baron
    15 August 1884
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/22
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:1 letter
    Language:English
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