| Description | Roderick Impey Murchison, fieldbooks & diaries: Central England and Wales. The volume mainly covers Shropshire, but includes visits to Welshpool and Montgomery. On the front in Murchison's hand the volume is dated July 1832, but is likely to contain earlier notes from June 1832.
Inside cover, index to the pages of the woodcuts included in Silurian System (1839);
Ink section and notes on Madeley and Iron Bridge, Shropshire (p1); coloured section of coal measures towards Madeley, with reference to Arthur Aikin's research on Shropshire, (p2); coloured section of Coalbrook Dale to Wrekin (p3);
Notes and sections on Lawless Cross, Gleedon Hill, Shropshire (pp4-5)
Notes, sections and profiles across of Wenlock Edge and the Wrekin, Shropshire (pp6-11)
Memoranda on Haughmond Hill, [nr Shrewsbury], Shropshire (p12), with coloured sections (p13);
Written section and notes on the Uffington Coal Pits (p14-15);
Pencil, ink and coloured sections of the Breidden Hills [Breidden, Middletown and Moel-y-Golfa], Powys (p17-20];
Section at Preston Hall, S W of Shrewsbury "made in the company of Col Wingfield, Sunday 1st July 1832" (p21);
Light pencil sketch profile of three hills [?Breidden Hills] (p21a);
Written section of the Pontesford Pits, 2 July [1832] (p22), coloured section of the Pontesford Pits showing the areas of worked coal (p23);
Snailbeach, Shropshire (pp24-25);
Ink sketch of the Stiper Stones taken from the east (p26), section from the Stiper Stones to Eltock Hill (p27), section 'Appearance of the strata...between the Stiper Stones and Longmynd' (p28)
Rough pencil sketches of ?Ness Cliff, Shropshire (p29)
Notes on the lithology of Pontesford Hill, the Wrekin, etc Shropshire (pp30-31), rough pencil sections around Pontesford Hill (pp32-32a), notes on lithology on Caradoc, Stiper Stones, etc continued with rough pencil section (pp33-35);
Coloured section from Lawrence Hill to Lincoln Hill (p36);
Benthall Edge, Shropshire, with pencil sections (pp37-38a);
Dryton and Longwood Collieries (p38b)
Soudley Quarries, with section (p39);
Pencil section of the The Hollies, Shropshire (p40);
Section between Wenlock Edge and Welshpool (p41);
Section near Cardington (p42);
Section of Hoars Edge (p43);
Section including ?Caer Caradoc to Linley Hill (pp44-46);
Section showing the limestone ridge of Caerdoc (p47);
Le Botwood [?Leebotwood] Pits, Shropshire (p49);
Bayston Hill, Shropshire (p50);
Brief notes and section of collieries around Shrewsbury (p51a);
Notes and sections on Harnage, Cound and Kenley (pp52-53);
Onslow to Welch Pool [Welshpool], 11 July [1832], with sketches of the hills (pp54-55);
Notes and profile sketch of the Breidden Hills (pp56-58);
Drawings, one coloured, of the Standard quarries at Welch Pool [Welshpool], corrected September 1833, (pp59-60);
Pencil outline profile sketch of the Breidden Hills (p60a);
Rough sketches of the quarries around Welshpool (p60b);
Notes and sections (one coloured), corrected in 1833, around Powis Castle and Welshpool, 13 July [1832] (pp61-63);
Montgomery Castle and areas in Montgomery, including coloured sections of Corndon Hill [fig 42 in Silurian System] (pp64-65) and through the Black Knolls;
Whittery Quarries (pp67-68);
Linley to Clungunford through Bishop's Castle, 14th Jul [1832] (p69), profile of hills between Twitchen and Clun (p70), ascent of hills from Clungonford to Shelderton with sketch (p71) rough section of Clunbury Hill (p71);
Aide memoire notes of things to see or people to meet, reference to Adam Sedgwick ending his work in Dollgellau 14th July [1832] (p73 to back cover). |
| Administrative History | The research in the field book formed the basis of Roderick Murchison's 'The Silurian System' (1839). |