| Description | Roderick Impey Murchison, fieldbooks & diaries: Southwest England. Volume entitled, '5. Bridport, Charmouth, Lyme, Sidmouth, Exmouth, Teignmouth, Bathicombe [?Batcombe], Torquay - Sept 11th-17th 1825'. (44pp) Comprises:
11-12 September 1825: stratigraphy and fossils of Bridport with reference to Chesil Beach (4), Abbotsbury, Burton Cliff, Golden Cap (5), Stoke Abbas (7), Loders, Eggardon Hill (8), Mapperton (9), Toller Down (10), Beaminster (11);
13 September 1825: stratigraphy around Chideock to Charmouth (15), Golden Cap (17);
14 September 1825: Lyme Regis with Mary Anning and her mother, witnessing Anning's methodology for finding ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, with descriptions of her prior discoveries (19-22); finding fault with the opinions of William Daniel Conybeare and Henry De la Beche (23-24)
15 September 1825 [note: dated 14 September]: Charmouth to Bridport, stratigraphy of the Rotherhampton quarries (25), Whitchurch, Chideock (26);
16 September 1825: Lyme to Exmouth, Devon, and the stratigraphy when passing through, Pinhay, Colyford (28), Sidmouth Valley (29), Sidmouth (31), Otterton (34), Budleigh (35), Exmouth (36);
17 September 1825: ?Exmouth to Torquay, passing through Dawlish Warren, Teignmouth (37), Stoke [in-Teignhead] (40), Marychurch, Torquay (41). |