| Description | Murchison correspondence: letter from Charles LYELL, 29 Sep 1832. Re: with Murchison's recommendations regarding houses to rent, has chosen to settle at no.16 Hart Street, near Bloomsbury as it is near Somerset House [for the Geological Society] and the Athenaeum, but also because of the cost and healthiness of its situation; the vacant Presidency of the Geological Society, has considered it, but declines as he is newly married and is working on his book, also he is intending to make an annual geological tour of the continent and live off his 'hobby' in writing and lecturing; George Bellas Greenough allowed William Lonsdale to arrange the former's Red Sea shells despite an 'old feud' with ?Adam Sedgwick; would like Fitton to be President. |