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Papers of Sir Charles Lyell (10)

Production date

3 December 1845 - 12 December 1845 (1)
9 August 1838 - September 1838 (1)
11 August 1843 - 30 August 1843 (1)
11 August 1859 - 13 September 1859 (1)
25 June 1843 - 7 July 1843 (1)
27 September 1871 - 7 May 1872 (1)
29 July 1859 - 11 August 1859 (1)
August 1842 - September 1842 (1)
July 1843 - 11 August 1843 (1)
May 1844 - 11 June 1844 (1)

Creator

Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) (10)
Buckland, William, 1784-1856 (English theologian, geologist) (1)
Buckley, Arabella Burton, 1840 – 1929 (Writer and Educator) (1)
Hughes, Thomas McKenny, 1832-1917 (Welsh geologist, Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University) (1)
Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) (1)

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(-) Fossils (10)
Shells (15)
Chalk (13)
Slavery--United States (11)
Elephant bones (10)
Climate (9)
Coal (9)
Earthquakes (9)
Fossil shells (9)
Limestone (9)
Volcanoes (9)
Alabama (United States) (8)
Auvergne (France) (8)
Falun (Sweden) (8)
Mastodon (8)
Angus (Scotland) (7)
Loire River Valley (France) (7)
Mississippi River (United States) (7)
Etna, Mount (Italy) (6)
Georgia (United States) (6)
Museums (6)
Nova Scotia (Canada) (6)
Puy-de-Dôme (France : Department) (6)
Bones (5)
Clay (5)
Geology (5)
Glaciers (5)
Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts, U.S.A.) (5)
Paris, France (5)
Sandstone (5)
Anthracite coal (4)
Bordeaux, France (4)
Boston (Massachusetts, United States) (4)
Caves (4)
Falkland Islands (4)
Geology, Stratigraphic Eocene (4)
Gneiss (4)
Granite (4)
Huron, Lake (Michigan, United States and Ontario, Canada) (4)
Iceland (4)
Loess (4)
Maastricht, Netherlands (4)
Madeira Islands -- Madeira (4)
Miocene Epoch (4)
New York City (New York, United States) (4)
Norfolk (England) (4)
Norwich (England) (4)
Nummulites (4)
Paris (France) (4)
Paris basin (France) (4)
Peat (4)
Sea Monsters (4)
Sea Serpents (4)
United States -- Ohio (4)
Virginia (United States) (4)
America (3)
Amiens (France) (3)
Bristol (England) (3)
Cambridge (England) (3)
Canary Islands (3)
Deltas (3)
Echinus -- Sea Urchin (3)
Eifel (Germany) (3)
England -- Cornwall (3)
Foraminifera (3)
Fossil Coral (3)
Geology, Stratigraphic Cambrian (3)
Geology, Stratigraphic Miocene (3)
Geology, Stratigraphic Tertiary (3)
Hippopotamus (Genus), Fossil (3)
Ichthyosaurus (3)
Isle of Wight, England (3)
Lake District (England) (3)
Las Palmas (Canary Islands) (3)
Lava Flows (3)
Lectures and Lecturing (3)
Madeira Islands (3)
Magnesian limestone (3)
Moel Tryfan (3)
Mollusks (3)
Naples (Italy) (3)
New Hampshire (United States) (3)
Niagra (Ontario, Canada) (3)
North Carolina United States of America (3)
Roy, Glen (Highland, Scotland) (3)
Schists (3)
Scientific expeditions (3)
South Carolina United States of America (3)
Suffolk (England) (3)
Sweden (3)
Uddevalla (Sweden) (3)
Verona (Italy) (3)
Volcanological Research (3)
Whales (3)
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (2)
Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) (2)
American Alligator (2)
Ammonites (Mollusks) (2)
Angus, Scotland (2)
Appalachian Mountains (2)
Architectural Drawing (2)
Attorneys (2)
Aurignacian culture--France (2)
Barometers (2)
Bituminous coal (2)
Bologna (Italy) (2)
Bonn (Germany) (2)
Brachiopoda, Fossil (2)
Brescia (Italy) (2)
Canada -- Nova Scotia (2)
Canada -- United States and Ontario -- New York -- Lake -- Ontario (2)
Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia, Canada) (2)
Cephalopoda (2)
City of London (England) (2)
Climate change (2)
Coal Period Trees (2)
Compilation manuscripts (2)
Cromer (England) (2)
Demerara (2)
Denmark (2)
Diluvium (2)
Dolomite (2)
Drift (2)
Druids and druidism (2)
Drumkilbo (Perthshire, Scotland) (2)
Echinoida (2)
Eclipses (2)
England -- Suffolk (2)
England -- York (2)
Footprints, Fossil (2)
Forfar, Forfarshire, Scotland (2)
Fossil Fish (2)
Fossil Wood (2)
Geological Cross Sections (2)
Geology, Stratigraphic Cretaeceous (2)
Geology, Stratigraphic Triassic (2)
Geology Museums (2)
Glen Clova (2)
Hampstead (London, England) (2)
Hawaii (United States) (2)
Himalaya Mountains (2)
Human Evolution (2)
Icebergs (2)
Iguanodon (2)
Italy (2)
Italy -- Florence (2)
Italy -- Mount -- Etna (2)
Lake Superior, Michigan, USA (2)
Lancaster (England) (2)
Lauffen am Neckar (Germany) (2)
Lava (2)
Lectures (2)
Lowestoft (England) (2)
Madeira (Madeira Islands) (2)
Maine (United States) (2)
Manuscripts, French (2)
Manuscripts, Latin (2)
Manuscripts, Medieval -- England (2)
Mildenhall (Suffolk, England) (2)
Mine Safety (2)
Mining (2)
Missouri (United States) (2)
Montpellier (France) (2)
Montreal (Quebec, Canada) (2)
Mosquitoes (2)
Neckar River (Germany) (2)
New Orleans (Louisiana) (United States) (2)
New York City, United States of America (2)
Obsidian (2)
Old Red Sandstone (2)
Oolite (2)
Orthoceras (2)
Oysters (2)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America (2)
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (United States) (2)
Raised Beaches (2)
Rhine River (2)
Rhinoceroses (2)
Rocks, Sedimentary (2)
Sam Slick (Fictitious character) (2)
Severn River (Wales and England) (2)
Sharks (2)
Shell-bearing limestone -- Muschelkalk -- Calcaire coquillier (2)
silurian (2)
Skeletons (2)
Skull (2)
Slavery (2)
Stockholm (Sweden) (2)
Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (2)
Sweden -- Stockholm (2)
Sweden -- Uppsala (2)
Tenerife (Canary Islands) (2)
United States -- Massachusetts (2)
United States of America -- Maryland (2)
Upheaval (2)
Vesuvius (Italy) (2)
Volcanic Eifel (2)
Weald, The (England) (2)
Zoological museums (2)
Abbeville Jaw (1)
Abolition of slavery (1)
Adour River (France) (1)
Aix-les-Bains (France) (1)
Aldborough (North Yorkshire, England) (1)
Alligators (1)
Alluvium (1)
Alps (1)
American (cultural identity) (1)
Ampthill (England) (1)
Anatomy (1)
Androscoggin County (Me.) (1)
Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France (1)
Appomattox River (Va.) (1)
Aquia Creek (Va.) (1)
Archaeology (1)
Architects (1)
Architecture (1)
Arquà Petrarca (Italy) (1)
Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland (1)
Artesian wells (1)
Arthur's Seat (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1)
Arthur's Seat (Scotland : Mountain) (1)
Arthur, King (Legendary Character) (1)
Ascension and Tristan da Cunha -- St Helena -- Tristan da Cunha (1)
Assynt, Loch (Highland, Scotland) (1)
Athenæum Club (London, England) (1)
Aurignacian culture (1)
Aurillac (France) (1)
Australia -- Queensland (1)
Autun, France (1)
Aveiro (Portugal) (1)
Awe, Loch (Argyll and Bute, Scotland) (1)
Bahía Blanca (Argentina) (1)
Ballantrae (Scotland) (1)
Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (1)
Bangor (Wales) (1)
Banks and banking (1)
Baptists (1)
Barbarano Vicentino (Italy) (1)
Barry Island (Barry, Wales) (1)
Basalt (1)
Basaltic Lavas (1)
Basilosaurus (1)
Bath (England) (1)
Bayonne (France) (1)
Bayreuth (Germany) (1)
Belemnite (1)
Belfast, Northern Ireland (1)
Belgium -- Brussels (1)
Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland (1)
Ben Nevis Kilmallie (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland (1)
Bern Switzerland (1)
Biarritz (France) (1)
Blackdown Hills (England) (1)
Blair Atholl (Scotland) (1)
Bolca (Italy) (1)
Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France (1)
Bowood House (England) (1)
Bradford (West Yorkshire, England) (1)
Braid (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1)
Brassac (Tarn, France) (1)
Brighton (England) (1)
Brittany (France) (1)
Buckinghamshire England (1)
Budapest (Hungary) (1)
Buffalo, New York State, United States of America (1)
Buffaloes (1)
Cachalot (1)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India (1)
Caledonian Canal (Scotland) (1)
Caltagirone (Italy) (1)
Cambridge (Massachusetts, United States) (1)
Campsie (Scotland) (1)
Canada (1)
Canada -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island (1)
Canada -- Ontario -- Niagara (1)
Capelin (1)
Capri (Italy) (1)
Carlisle (1)
Castellfollit de la Roca (Spain) (1)
Castle Combe (1)
Castlehill (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1)
Catania (Italy) (1)
Catastrophism (1)
Celtic studies (1)
Ceratodus (1)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (1)
Cherokee (1)
Chesterfield County (Va.) (1)
Chile (1)
Choctaw Indians (1)
Christianity (1)
Cidaroida, Fossil (1)
Classical Civilisation (1)
Coalfields (1)
Coal Mines and Mining (1)
Cockburn Geological Museum (1)
Coll Argyllshire Scotland (1)
College teachers (1)
Cologne (Germany) (1)
Colonies (1)
Copenhagen (Denmark) (1)
Copenhagen, Denmark (1)
Corals (1)
Cork Ireland (1)
Correspondence (1)
Cosmogony (1)
Cotton farmers (1)
Crassatella (1)
Craters, Volcanic (1)
Crystallization (1)
Cumbria (England) (1)
Curlews (1)
Dance (1)
Darwinism (1)
Date palms (1)
Dax (France) (1)
Deer (1)
Delhi (India) (1)
Denmark -- Copenhagen (1)
Devon, England (1)
Dinosaurs (1)
Dissection (1)
Dogs (1)
Dolphins (1)
Dorchester (Dorset, England) (1)
Dover (England) (1)
Drawing (1)
Dublin (Ireland) (1)
Dumfries (Scotland) (1)
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland (1)
Durham England (1)
Dusseldorf, Germany (1)
Earth, Crust (1)
Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes (1)
Echinoderms (1)
Edinburgh, Scotland (1)
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom (1)
Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1)
Educational change (1)
Egypt (1)
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress (Germany) (1)
Elgin, Moray, Scotland (1)
Ely (England) (1)
England -- Brighton (1)
England -- City of London (1)
England -- Devon (1)
England -- Essex (1)
England -- Exeter (1)
England -- Hampshire -- Farnborough (1)
England -- Lewes (1)
England -- Newcastle Upon Tyne (1)
England -- Norfolk (1)
England -- Norfolk -- Diss (1)
England -- Oxfordshire -- Oxford (1)
England -- River -- Thames (1)
England -- Scarborough (1)
England -- Shoreham-by-Sea (1)
England -- Stafford (1)
England -- The -- Weald (1)
England -- Warwickshire -- Rugby (1)
England -- Yorkshire (1)
Escarpments (1)
Euganean Hills (Italy) (1)
Evran (France) (1)
Extinction (Biology) (1)
Falls of Foyers (Highland, Scotland) (1)
Falmouth (Cornwall) (1)
Faults (Geology) (1)
Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea) (1)
Fieldwork (1)
Fieldwork Practice (1)
Fife Scotland (1)
Filey (England) (1)
Fish (1)
Flint (1)
Foix (France) (1)
Folkestone (England) (1)
Folklore (1)
Folk music -- Georgia (1)
Folk songs (1)
Forfar, Angus, Scotland (1)
Formations (Geology) (1)
Forres, Morayshire, Scotland (1)
Fort Augustus, Highland, Scotland (1)
Fossils, Classification of (1)
France (1)
France -- Aquitaine -- Bordeaux (1)
France -- Calais (1)
France -- Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (1)
France -- Dieppe (1)
Frome (England) (1)
Fula (African people) (1)
Galunggung Mountain (Indonesia) (1)
Ganges River (India and Bangladesh) (1)
Gastropoda, Fossil. (1)
Genesee River (Pa. and N.Y.) (1)
Geneva, Lake (France and Switzerland) (1)
Geneva, Switzerland (1)
Genoa, Italy (1)
Geological Time (1)
Geology, Stratigraphic (1)
Germany (1)
Germany -- Stuttgart (1)
Giant's Causeway Northern Ireland (1)
Giraffidae (1)
Gironde Estuary (France) (1)
Girvan (Scotland) (1)
Glacial Drift (1)
Glacial Epoch (1)
Glacial Erratics (1)
Glaciation (1)
Glasgow (Scotland) (1)
Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Scotland (1)
Glens of Antrim County Antrim Northern Ireland (1)
Gold mines and mining (1)
Grammar (1)
Grampians (Scotland) (1)
Gravel (1)
Guiana (1)
Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada) (1)
Hallowell (Me.) (1)
Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales (1)
Haute Loire, France (1)
Helgoland (Germany) (1)
Henderson Island (Pitcairn Islands) (1)
Herculaneum (extinct city) (1)
Herne Bay (England) (1)
Hippos (1)
Hippuritidae (1)
History of Science (1)
Honfleur Normandy France (1)
Hopeton Plantation (Ga.) (1)
House martin (1)
Hoxne (England) (1)
Hull (England) (1)
Human rights (1)
Hummingbirds (1)
Hyaenodon (hyena tooth fossil) (1)
Illinois (United States) (1)
Indiana (United States) (1)
Indians of North America (1)
Insects (1)
Invergarry Inverness-shire Scotland (1)
Ireland (1)
Irish language (1)
Irish Studies (1)
Iron-works (1)
Ischia (Italy) (1)
Isle of Arran, Buteshire, Scotland (1)
Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland (1)
Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland (1)
Isle of Bute, Argyll and Bute, Scotland (1)
Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland (1)
Isle of Man (1)
Isle of Mull Argyllshire Scotland (1)
Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland (1)
Issoire (France) (1)
Italy -- Venice (1)
Jacobites (1)
Jungfrau (Switzerland) (1)
Kennebec County (Me.) (1)
Kennebec River (Me.) (1)
Kentucky (United States) (1)
Kilmarnock (Scotland) (1)
Kilmaurs (Scotland) (1)
Kirkby (Merseyside, England) (1)
Laggan, Loch (Highland, Scotland) (1)
Lampeter (Wales) (1)
Landscape (1)
Lapland, Finland (1)
Latin poetry (1)
Leaves (1)
Leeds (England) (1)
Leith, Scotland (1)
Lepidodendron (1)
Lessini Mountains (Italy) (1)
Lewes (England) (1)
Lewis with Harris Island (Scotland) (1)
Lichfield (England) (1)
Liège (Belgium) (1)
Limagne, France (1)
Linguistics (1)
Lisbon (Portugal) (1)
Llandudno (Wales) (1)
Lochranza (1)
Loch Ryan (1)
Locofoco Party (N.Y.) (1)
Lomond, Loch (Scotland) (1)
London (England) (1)
London, England (1)
Lossiemouth (1)
Louisiana (United States) (1)
Lowell Institute lectures (1)
Lower Tertiary Period (1)
Lübeck (Germany) (1)
Lute (1)
Lymnaea stagnalis (1)
Maggiore, Lake (Italy and Switzerland) (1)
Malaria (1)
Malta (1)
Mammalia (1)
Mammalian remains (Archaeology) (1)
Manuscript Preparation (Authorship) (1)
Manuscripts, Greek (1)
Margate, Kent, England (1)
Marl (1)
Marseille, France (1)
Martello towers (1)
Maryland United States of America (1)
Megaloceros (1)
Megatherium (1)
Menai Straits Bridge (Wales) (1)
Merchant ships | (1)
Merrimack River New Hampshire United States of America North America (1)
Metamorphism (Geology) (1)
Meteorites Age (1)
Meteorological Observations (1)
Mexican War, 1846-1848 (1)
Mexico (1)
Milan (Italy) (1)
Minerals, Collection and Preservation (1)
Missourium (1)
Montbrison (Loire, France) (1)
Montecchio Maggiore (Italy) (1)
Monterosso al Mare (Italy) (1)
Moraines (1)
Moray Firth (Highland, Scotland) (1)
Morvan (Aude, France) (1)
Mosses (1)
Mountains (1)
Mount Holyoke (1)
Mull (1)
Music -- 16th century -- Manuscripts (1)
Music -- France -- 16th century (1)
Music -- Italy -- 16th century (1)
Mya arenaria (1)
Mythology, Celtic (1)
Mythology, Greek (1)
Naples, Italy (1)
Natural History (1)
Neanderthals (1)
New Caledonia (Colony) (1)
Newcastle Upon Tyne (England) (1)
New Jersey (United States) (1)
New Madrid, Missouri, earthquake region--geological, seismological, and geotechnical studies (1)
New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853-1854 : New York, N.Y.) (1)
New Zealand (1)
Nice (France) (1)
Nigg (Ross and Cromarty) (1)
Nile River (1)
North America (1)
North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland (1)
Norway (1)
Norway -- Kristiania (1)
Nuremberg, Germany (1)
Oaths (1)
Oberhausen (Germany) (1)
Ohio River (1)
Old Sarum, Wiltshire (1)
Olot (Spain) (1)
Ornithology (1)
Orthez (France) (1)
Oslo (Norway) (1)
Osteichthyes (1)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (1)
Pakefield (England) (1)
Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico) (1)
Paleolithic period (1)
Pampas (1)
Pantalica (Extinct city) (1)
Parma (Italy) (1)
Peat Bogs (Habitats) (1)
Peccaries (1)
Pembrokeshire (Wales) (1)
Penrith (England) (1)
Pepperell (Mass. : Town) (1)
Perdido Mountain (Spain) (1)
Pholadomyoida (1)
Phonolite (1)
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Pietramelara (Italy) (1)
Pitlochry, Perth and Kinross, Scotland (1)
Pits (1)
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Poetry (1)
Poor laws (1)
Population studies (1)
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Preston, Lancashire, England (1)
Proteaceae (1)
Prunus virginiana (1)
Publishers and Publishing (1)
Purbeck (England) (1)
Pyrenees (France and Spain) (1)
Pyrite (1)
Quinag (Highland, Scotland) (1)
Rainbow (1)
Rathlin Island County Antrim Northern Ireland (1)
Red admiral (Insect) (1)
Regny (Loire, France) (1)
Religion (1)
Religion and science (1)
Richmond and Danville Railroad Company (1)
River Spey Inverness-shire Scotland (1)
Rocks, Metamorphic (1)
Romans (1)
Rome (Italy) (1)
Sable Island (N.S.) (1)
Saint-Acheul, France (1)
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Scottish Gaelic language (1)
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Sicily (Italy) (1)
Sidlaw Hills (Scotland) (1)
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St. Lawrence River, USA, Canada (1)
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Stalactites and stalagmites (1)
Steinheim an der Murr (Germany) (1)
Stirling, Scotland (1)
St Kilda Inverness-shire Scotland (1)
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Telemark fylke (Norway) (1)
Texas (United States) (1)
Thames, River (England) (1)
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The Trossachs, Stirling, Scotland (1)
Topographics (1)
Toronto (Ontario, Canada) (1)
Tortoises (1)
Toulouse (France) (1)
Trachyte (1)
Transmutation of animals (1)
Trees (1)
Treville (Aude, France) (1)
Trilobites (1)
Trümmelbach Falls (1)
Ullapool Ross and Cromarty Scotland (1)
Uniformitarianism (1)
Unitarianism (1)
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United States -- Mississippi -- Philadelphia (1)
United States -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh (1)
United States -- Virginia (1)
United States of America -- Michigan -- East Lansing (1)
United States of America -- South Carolina (1)
University of Oxford (1)
Upstate New York (N.Y.) (1)
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Vermont (United States) (1)
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Wales (1)
Wales -- Gwynedd -- Caernarfon (1)
Waterfalls (1)
Waulking songs (1)
Whaling (1)
Whirlpools (1)
Wicklow (Ireland) (1)
Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany (1)
Wigtownshire (Scotland) (1)
Winds (1)
Wolves (1)
Worcestershire (England) (1)
Yantlet Battery (England) (1)
Yorkshire (England) (1)
Zoophytes (1)
Zoos (1)

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