Part of Collection

University Archives and Manuscripts

Title

Notebook No.258

Creators/Contributors

Rights

Out of Copyright. Free use.

Collection

Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Production Date

22 April 1870 - 3 July 1871

Shelfmark (Identifier)

Coll-203/A1/258

Catalogue Record

https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/180416

Subjects

Devon, England
Ceratodus
Proteaceae
Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Scotland
Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland
Fossil Wood
Lochranza
Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Scotland
Lomond, Loch (Scotland)
The Trossachs, Stirling, Scotland
Lake District (England)
Athenæum Club (London, England)
Raised Beaches
Gold mines and mining
Demerara
Guiana
Australia -- Queensland

Description

This black Notebook is annotated with Lyell's name, address at 73 Harley Street, London. The Notebook begins with the end a tour of Devon - started in the previous Notebook 257 - with Lyell in Barnstaple. Mostly written by Buckley, there are sections of very poor writing at times, which could be Lyell's own. From Devon to Bristol Clifton Bridge and Bath. Time following up queries and visiting the British Museum in London is followed by train to Glasgow with Mary and Leonard, then to the Isle of Arran, first visited in Notebook 62. Returns to Glasgow then rail and steamer to Loch Lomond, Inversnaid, Loch Katrine and the Trossachs' They are at Shielhill before heading south to the Lake District. Lyell returns to London, to follow up various queries and meetings. Barton Hall then onto Downes, and a 'Second Devonshire Tour' touring and revisiting places as far south as Penzance. Lyell then corresponds with people who are in or have worked in, Australia. Notebook finishes with a list of people to whom he has given copies of Principles.