| Description | Roderick Impey Murchison, fieldbooks & diaries: England, Royal Institution, Oxford and Geological Society. Soft back notebook entitled 'Two of Buckland's lectures and ride to Shotover. Electricity. 1825.'
From front:Notes of the 8th lecture from the Royal Institution on Electricity [?given by William Thomas Brande], 26 February 1825 (pp1-7)
From back: geological notes on Debden Hall, nr Newport, Essex, 7 May 1825 (pp44-40);
Notes of two lectures 'On Springs' and 'Rivers' given by William Buckland at Oxford University, 7-8 June 1825, with copied section [presumably from one of Buckland's teaching diagrams] (pp39-26);
Geological notes and account of a 'Ride to Shotover Hill with Professor Buckland', 8 June 1825 (pp18-11);
Account of the Ordinary General Meeting of the Geological Society of 17 June 1825, including paper by Woods on the neighbourhood of Exeter, with comments by Buckland (pp10-7).
Loose sheets entitled '1st meeting 1825 Recollections of Geological Society', containing an account of the first Ordinary General Meeting attended by Murchison on Friday 7 January 1825 during which Charles Lyell presented his paper "On a recent Formation of Freshwater Limestone in Forfarshire, and on some recent Deposits of Freshwater Marl..." (pp45-46);
Notes of a geological class given by William Henry Fitton and William Buckland to Murchison and polar explorers John Franklin, George Back and Dr John Richardson [at the Geological Society's Museum, Bedford Street], Saturday 8 January 1825 (pp47-48), with notes on stratigraphy taken on 11 & 15 January 1825 (pp49-55);
Notes of a trip to the British Museum with Dr John Richardson, 14 [January 1825] to see animal fossil remains including the Mastodon (p56). |