Ref NoLDGSL/838/L/17/15
TitleMurchison correspondence: letter from Charles LYELL
Date20 Jun 1833
LevelItem
Extent1 letter
FormatDocument
DescriptionMurchison correspondence: letter from Charles LYELL, 20 Jun 1833. Re: Updating Murchison on his time in France, notably: correlating the geology with that of the Weald; events at the meeting of the Société géologique de France on the subject of elevation craters; meetings with French geologists (and their disputes with each other); studied part of Dufrenoy's map of France which is not yet published; splitting his Eocene, Miocene and Pliocene into further 'upper, middle and lower' sections; has also seen Pentland and Mrs Somerville.
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LanguageEnglish
ArchNoteDescription by John Thackray; revised by Caroline Lam
CreatorNameLYELL | Sir | Charles | 1797-1875 | 1st baronet | geologist
Previous referenceLDGSL 838/M/L17
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/16LYELL; Sir; Charles (1797-1875); 1st baronet; geologist1797-1875
DS/UK/2023SOMERVILLE; Mary (1780-1872); née Fairfax; science writer and polymath1780-1872
DS/UK/631VIRLET D'AOUST; Pierre Théodore (1800-1894); geologist1800-1894
DS/UK/630BOBLAYE; Emile Le Puillon de (1792-1843); geologist1792-1843
DS/UK/329ÉLIE DE BEAUMONT; Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce (1798-1874); geologist1798-1874
DS/UK/548PRÉVOST; Louis-Constant (1787-1856); geologist1787-1856
DS/UK/289DESHAYES; Gérard Paul (1795-1875); geologist and conchologist1795-1875
DS/UK/788BROCHANT DE VILLIERS; André Jean-Marie (1772-1840); mineralogist and geologist1772-1840
DS/UK/205BOUÉ; Ami (1794-1881); geologist1794-1881
DS/UK/546BRONGNIART; Alexandre (1770-1847); chemist, mineralogist and zoologist1770-1847
DS/UK/750DUFRÉNOY; Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit- (1792-1857); geologist and mineralogist1792-1857
DS/UK/365PENTLAND; Joseph Barclay (1797-1873); naturalist and traveller1797-1873
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