| Description | Roderick Impey Murchison, fieldbooks & diaries: Germany [Bonn to Potsdam], 30 June-21 & 29 July 1829:
Ascent of Rhine from Bonn to Andernach, 30 June 1829 (p2); Andernach, 1 July 1829 (p5); Capel [Kappel], 7 July 1829 (p10), description of the strata around Kappel (pp13-15); Göttingen, 10 July 1829, with small ink section (p16); coloured section from the village of Ringkenkhul to the S E side of the Meissner (p18); description of the geology of Mount Meissner with plan view (pp19-23); descent from Mount Meissner (p25); Göttingen to visit 'old Blumenbach' [Johann Friedrich Blumenbach] (p26), attended Blumenbach's lecture on insects (p27), walked around the 'old ramparts' with Blumenbach discussing metaphysics & Walter Scott (p28); Clausthal to Goslar, 11 July 1829 (pp30-32); Goslar (p32); ink section from the Hartz through Goslar (p34); Blankenburgh [Blankenburg], 12 July 1829 (p36); journey from Ilsenburg through Wernigerode and Heimburg (p37); small ink section through Blankenburg (p38); evening excursion at Blankenburg, with two ink sections, one coloured, of the green sandstone hills from the 'northern flank of the Hartz', with description (pp39-40); Eisleben, 12 July 1829 (p42); village of Neinstedt, with small ink section (p43); palace of the Dukes of Berenberg (p44); small thumbnail section through Halstedt (p47); visit to the 'Berg Juspector's collection', with description of the series of rocks from Eisleben (pp48-54), including ink drawing of the fossilised plants from the 'Kupfer Scheifer of Eisleben' (p51); Halle, 15 July 1829, top of page is a thumbnail sketch by Professor Gessner showing the peculiarity of the dorsal fins of the fossil fish found in the Kupfer Scheifer (p53), Gessner's opinions on the fossil remains of the Kupfer Scheifer (pp53-57), socialising with Gessner (p58); Gessner's low opinion of Ami Boué, including his meanness to servants (pp59-61); Gessner's opinions of the other Professors at the University of Halle - Hoffmann, Hausmann, Sprengel and Humboldt (p61); Gessner recommends than Murchison examine the neighbourhood around Dresden, description of the local porphyry with two small thumbnail sketches (pp62-64); geologising with Baron von Weltheim, with list section of the beds at Lobegun (pp65-67); ink section of the Saal near Halle (p68); Berlin and its environs, 19 July 1829 (pp70-71); 'Hoffmann' [Friedrich Hoffmann], 19-20 July 1829 (p72), rough ink section showing Thonscheiffer and granite (p73); lists of facts from 'Pusch of Warsaw' of geological sources (pp74-78), including ink sections of the North Carpathians & Wieliczka near Cracow (p76), Kofsof on the River Rybnica, Poland & Międzygórze (pp77-78); Potsdam, 21 July 1829, list of paintings from the picture gallery (p80); road distances on the route to Dresden (p81); financial accounts (p84).
From the back of the volume, and written the other way up (ie rotated 180 degrees) are more notes:
Inside cover, rough pencil sketch section of Jura rocks; Bonn, July 29, list and descriptions of strata (p87); lists of fossils from Goldfuss (p85 & 83). |