Part of Collection

Title

Notebook No.190

Creators/Contributors

Rights

Out of Copyright. Free use.

Collection

Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Production Date

January 1854 - February 1854

Shelfmark (Identifier)

Coll-203/A1/190

Catalogue Record

https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/180348

Description

This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s geological travels around Madeira with Georg Hartung, and in the company of Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury. Specific areas of note include Cape Girão, Curral [das Freiras], Pico Serado, Torrinhas, Pico do Cardo, Casa Branca, Pico da Cruz, Pico Grande, Pico do Jorge, Pico Ruivo, and Serradinho. 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 pebbles, basalt, lava types, scoria, red crystals, columnar, dikes, tuff, and limestone. Some key geological features Lyell describes in this book include erosion of waterfall, theory of explosion, subsidence, and Curral being a crater. The painter Johan Frederick Eckersberg is mentioned in this notebook and was in Madeira at the same time as Lyell and Hartung and has many paintings of places noted in Lyell’s notebooks. Charles Bunbury is also mentioned, in relation to the species of fauna and flora he found/identified.

Language

eng