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Total number of records: 264

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Books and printed items258
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Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society52
Brotherton Collection24
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection2
Ripon Cathedral2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Herbert Read Collection1

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geology264
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mineralogy16
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coal8
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Yorkshire (England)7
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Whitaker, William (1836-1925)17
Lyell, Charles Sir, Bart (1797-1875)12
Thorvaldur Thoroddsen (1855-1921)12
Phillips, John (1800-1874)11
Geologists' Association7
Soulavie, Jean-Louis Giraud (1752-1813)7
Cuvier, Georges Baron (1769-1832)5
Deshayes, G P (1795-1875)5
Hull, Edward (1829-1917)5
Jameson, Robert5

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Photographs issued by the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, 1872-1880

Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society

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 ...

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Geological rambles around Hull: partial draft of a proposed book, by Thomas Sheppard

Sheppard, Thomas (1876-1945)

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.)

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Catalogue of Sicilian minerals

c.1801-1825

Catalogue of 132 sundry Sicilian minerals, collected by P. Campanella of Messina

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On the different theories of the Earth, by Adam Hunter

Hunter, Adam (1794-1843)

1821

Comprises a lecture read to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, December 21, 1821; see the note on f. 56v

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Principles of geology : being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation (v.2)

Lyell, Charles Sir, Bart (1797-1875); Deshayes, G P (1795-1875)

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.

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Principles of geology : being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation (v.3)

Lyell, Charles Sir, Bart (1797-1875); Deshayes, G P (1795-1875)

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.

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Principles of geology : being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation (v.1)

Lyell, Charles Sir, Bart (1797-1875)

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.

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Principles of geology

Lyell, Charles Sir, Bart (1797-1875)

1847

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Geological map of Scotland : from the most recent authorities and personal observations

Nicol, James; Johnston, Alexander Keith (1804-1871)

[ca. 1846]

Caption title: Note explanatory of the Geological map of Scotland.

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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

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