Part of Collection

Title

Notebook No.188

Creators/Contributors

Rights

Out of Copyright. Free use.

Collection

Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Production Date

January 1854

Shelfmark (Identifier)

Coll-203/A1/188

Catalogue Record

https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/180346

Description

This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s geological travels around Madeira with Georg Hartung, in the company of Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury. This notebook starts January 1854 in Madeira. Specific areas of note include Funchal, Arndas, Piedade, Cape Girão, Pico St Martinho, Pico da Cruz, Pico dos Bodes, Curral, Pico Da Barraca, Santo António, Jardim da Serra, and São Vicente. This notebook primarily focuses on the geological features and formations Lyell saw across Madeira and includes a vast number of drawings and sketches of these geological features, primarily concerning crystals, trachyte, lava ejections, scoriform lava, dikes, columnar, and breccia. A drawing of note page 77 shows a scientific approach to sketches of geological features. Another geological feature Lyell takes interest in is called Achada do Furtado or ‘Rat Ravine’ (p.88) referring to a flat ledge or ridge. He also takes note of a geological feature called 'Knife edge ridge' and its standing in the geological landscape. Geological theories covered in this notebook include upheaval domes and erosion patterns when looking at the formation of Madeira. There is also heavy focus in the middle of this notebook on a waterfall in Curral and its effect on erosion.Lyell mentions plants and shells, such as Sempervivum (genus Aeonium).

Language

eng