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Archive Sub-series:
MS 1592
1872-1880
Comprises photographs of the following places: (1) Contorted limestone at Draughton, near Skipton, 1872; (2) Limestone quarry at Ray Gill, near Skipton, with cavity containing mammalian remains, 1875 ...
Archive File:
MS 452
c.1896
Also, a transcript made in 1896 by Thomas Sheppard of A.J. Jukes-Browne, 'The boulder clays of Lincolnshire', Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 41 (1885), pp.114-131 (18 ff.)
Archive File:
MS 695
c.1801-1825
Catalogue of 132 sundry Sicilian minerals, collected by P. Campanella of Messina
Archive File:
MS 98
1821
Comprises a lecture read to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, December 21, 1821; see the note on f. 56v
Archive Print Item:
Geology A-0.062 LYE
1830-1833
Appendices: I. Tables of fossil shells by Monsieur G. P. Deshayes.--II. Lists of fossil shells chiefly collected by the author in Sicily and Italy, named by M. Deshayes.
Archive Print Item:
Geology A-0.062 LYE
1830-1833
Appendices: I. Tables of fossil shells by Monsieur G. P. Deshayes.--II. Lists of fossil shells chiefly collected by the author in Sicily and Italy, named by M. Deshayes.
Archive Print Item:
Geology A-0.062/LYE
1832-33
Vol. 3 was contemplated when the first edition of v. 2 appeared, but was published for the first time in 1833 a little after the second edition of v. 1-2. No second edition of v. 3 was issued.
Archive Print Item:
Geology A-0.062/LYE
Principles of geology

Lyell, Charles Sir, Bart (1797-1875)

1847
Archive Print Item:
Pamphlets Geology A-0.09/NIC
[ca. 1846]
Caption title: Note explanatory of the Geological map of Scotland.
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Geology A-0.02/IRE
Report on the geology of the county of Londonderry, and of parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh

Portlock, Joseph Ellison (1794-1864); Ordnance Survey of Ireland

1843