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, Heritage 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	University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, University Collections and Museums Directorate	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, Heritage 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, Heritage Collections	Coll-1997; SC-Acc-2020-0022	See Annual Return 2020
33	c1820-1875: additional papers incl corresp and scientific papers	Edinburgh University Library, Heritage 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, Heritage 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, Heritage Collections	Coll-203 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0181)	See Annual Return 2023