Charles Lyell’s archaeological specimens at the University of Edinburgh Will Adams completed his MA Archaeology dissertation at the University of Edinburgh Summer 2023 looking at Lyell’s archaeological specimens – achieving an impressive 78% and winning an award to boot! …Continue reading →

Charles Lyell’s Books In his Scientific Notebook 1, dated March – April 1825, Charles Lyell lists things to take on his first geological tour, designed to gather the evidence for his first book. In …Continue reading →

Working with Charles Lyell – a call for papers Two-day workshop, 8-9 February 2024, University of Edinburgh CALL FOR PAPERS Contributions are invited to a two-day workshop on the life and work of the leading geologist and natural scientist …Continue reading →

Time Traveller: Charles Lyell at Work Free exhibition in the Main Library Exhibition Gallery (ground floor), Open from 27th October 2023 – 30th March 2024, Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm  Over the last few months, …Continue reading →

Lyell’s Islands We’ve been lucky to have had Harriet Mack, who is heading into her 3rd Year of a joint honours degree in Archaeology and Classics working with us as our Lyell …Continue reading →

The Case of the ‘L’Homme de la Denise’ We are grateful to present another guest blog! This time from Timothé Lhoste who is currently completing his master’s degree studying History of Science at the School for Advanced Studies …Continue reading →

Spending a wee while with Lyell  Following in the brilliant footsteps of Claire, Sarah and Joanne – we have been lucky to have Sarah Partington working on conserving the Lyell Collection. For 14 weeks, Sarah was …Continue reading →

Review 2022 and a look towards 2023 TAGS: Archives | Archives Access and Engagement | Archives Cataloguing | Archives Conservation | Archives Digitisation | Archives Transcription | Earth Science | Sir Charles Lyell (1795-1875) A lot has happened in 2022! Supported by both core and external funding, and with a return to more normal ways of working, we have been able to re-start and …Continue reading →

“An epoch in history” – Charles Lyell in Nova Scotia 1842 TAGS: Archives | Archives Digitisation | Centre for Research Collections | collections | Earth Science | Geology | Image Collections | Nova Scotia | Sir Charles Lyell (1795-1875) We are delighted to welcome Tim Fedak – a Curator and Palaeontologist based at Nova Scotia Museum – to our blog! Tim has been waiting ever so patiently for access …Continue reading →

Considering labels TAGS: Archives | Centre for Research Collections | Earth Science | Fossils | Geology | Sir Charles Lyell (1795-1875) | Specimens | Student Experience | University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections The Cockburn Geological Museum at the Grant Institute holds an extensive collection of over 130,000 geological specimens that reflect the whole spectrum of earth science materials, including minerals, rocks and …Continue reading →