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Lyell, Sir Charles, (1797-1875), 1st Baronet, geologist

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Surname: Lyell
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Charles
Gender: Male
Date: 1797-1875
Biography: ODNB link for Lyell, Sir Charles (1797-1875), 1st Baronet, geologist
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P138744 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P18120 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Charles Lyell
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1823-1875: corresp and papers incl scientific notebooks
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Coll-203 // SC-Acc-2019-0120
See Annual Return 2019
2
corresp, journals and papers
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
3
corresp and papers
Edinburgh University: Cockburn Museum
See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
4
corresp
American Philosophical Society Library
NRA 9728 American Philosophic
5
1826-54: letters to Charles Babbage
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 37183-200 passim
6
letters (21) to Sir Henry De la Beche
National Museum of Wales
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
7
corresp with James Forbes
St Andrews University Library
msdep7
NRA 13132
8
letters (25) to WR Grove
Royal Institution of Great Britain
NRA 9522
9
1850-73: letters to Robert Harkness
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
MS Add.7652
NRA 44054
10
corresp with Sir John Herschel
Royal Society
HS
NRA 8803
11
1828-45: letters (135) to Sir William Hooker
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
12
1844-72: corresp with Leonard Horner
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.2213-2217
13
1800-1899: correspondence between Sir Charles Lyell and his father-in-law Leonard Horner (58 items)
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
SC-Acc-2021-0045
See Annual Return 2021
14
corresp with Thomas McKenny Hughes
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
MS Add.9557
NRA 43940
15
1853-73: corresp with Thomas Huxley
Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit
B/HUXLEY
NRA 8194 Huxley
16
1835-56: letters (12) to Sir John Lubbock
Royal Society
LUB
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
17
1855-68: letters to Sir John Lubbock
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 49638-42 passim
18
1821-52: corresp (270 items) with Gideon Algernon Mantell
National Library of New Zealand: Alexander Turnbull Library
MS-Group-0305
NRA 40579

See Microfilm copies (ref.XA 64) at East Sussex R.O.
19
1825-68: letters (44) to Roderick Impey Murchison
Geological Society of London
M/L 17
NRA 28354 Geological Soc
20
1826-74: leters to John Murray, publishers, with related papers
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.40726-30
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
21
1837-58: corresp (48 items) with Sir Richard Owen and William Clift
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
L OC62
See Catalogue of MSS... Natural History Museum (1995)
22
1860-73: letters to William Pengelly
Torquay Museum
134
NRA 38234 Torquay
23
1836-71: letters (34) to John Phillips
Oxford University: Museum of Natural History
John Phillips Archive/Box 45
NRA 42482
24
1841-72: letters (21) to Sir Andrew Ramsay
Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit
KGA/RAMSAY
NRA 29646
25
c1822-63: letters to James Smith
Glasgow City Archives
TD1/1110,1112,1116
NRA 20864 Smith
26
1831-73: letters (14) to Mary Somerville and to Dr Somerville
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
NRAS191
NRA 9423
27
1825-40: letters (10) to members of the Sowerby family
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
L Sowerby Coll A
See Catalogue of MSS... Natural History Museum (1995)
28
letters to John Swinton
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRAS200
NRA 10561
29
letters (c20) to John Tyndall
Royal Institution of Great Britain
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
30
1864-69: letters to AR Wallace
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 46435
31
1831-63: letters (31) to William Whewell
Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
WHEWELL
NRA 8804
32
1805-1899: album entitled "Divines, Metaphysicians, Philologists" containing autograph letters (118) to Lyell and family, and portraits (57) of the senders
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Coll-1997; SC-Acc-2020-0022
See Annual Return 2020
33
c1820-1875: additional papers incl corresp and scientific papers
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Coll-203; SC-Acc-2020-0115
See Annual Return 2021
34
1800-1899: autograph letters (21) from various scientists, economists, artists etc. to Charles Lyell and members of his family
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
SC-Acc-2021-0044
See Annual Return 2021
35
1831-1854: manuscript notes of lectures on Agriculture, taken down by Charles Lyall, a student of the University of Edinburgh, during the academic session 1833-1834
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Coll-203 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0181)
See Annual Return 2023