Notebooks
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebooks (numbered), 1818 - 1846
Journals and Sketchbooks, 1818 - 1846
Comprising numbered and unnumbered field notebooks and sketchbooks. The notebooks include details of: daily excursions and geological features; places visited including working mines and quarries; specimens collected or purchased; expenses; health matters; and include some social history commentary. The sketchbooks include pencil, ink and watercolour stratigraphic sketches of places visited.
The Papers of Adam Sedgwick
The collection comprises 64 notebooks and 11 boxes of annotated field maps, 1818-1858. There are also notes and papers relating to geology university teaching syllabuses, 1821 and 1832.
The Papers of John Edward Marr
The collection comprises 68 field notebooks (1875-1925) covering work undertaken in a variety of places in the UK (e.g. Yorkshire, Wales, Cumbria) and Bohemia [Czech Republic]. They include maps, sketches and notes about fossils collected. There are also notes and some correspondence in the collection.
Writing and lectures, 1879-1927
Comprising lecture notes; notebooks; transcripts of stories; and details of papers written and cited.