Part of Collection
University Archives and Manuscripts
Title
Notebook No.63
Creators/Contributors
Rights
Out of Copyright. Free use.
Collection
Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
Production Date
August 1836 - April 1837
Shelfmark (Identifier)
Coll-203/A1/63
Catalogue Record
https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/180221
Subjects
- Shells
- Cephalopoda
- Ascension and Tristan da Cunha -- St Helena -- Tristan da Cunha
- Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland
Description
This black leather notebook contains Lyell's notes on current scholarship from other well-known natural history colleagues, including Darwin, Deshayes, Blackadder, Owen, and more. Notes are made in pencil and ink with some sketches. The index is pasted to the back cover, and the front cover is blank. This notebook has a reference in the index on page 56, to 'Darwin St Helena Shells' which links to a specimen held by the Cockburn Geological Museum reference EUCM.0180.2013.
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