Part of Collection

Title

Notebook No.140

Creators/Contributors

Rights

Out of Copyright. Free use.

Collection

Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Production Date

5 April 1846 - 14 April 1846

Shelfmark (Identifier)

Coll-203/A1/140

Catalogue Record

https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/180298

Subjects

• Red admiral (Insect)
• Mollusks
• Lymnaea stagnalis
• Spiriferida
• Brachiopoda, Fossil
• Orthoceras
• Locofoco Party (N.Y.)
• Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (United States)

Description

This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from April 5th to April 14, 1846. The notebook starts in Louisville, Kentucky as Lyell travels north along the Ohio River in the steamer Ben Franklin, arriving in Cincinnati on April 7th. On April 13th Lyell resumed travel up the Ohio River, bound for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The index is located in the back of the notebook on eight unnumbered pages. Notes are in pencil and ink.

Language

eng