[Rockhounds] Fwd: [oryctics] Charles Lyell's notebooks

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Thought you might like to know about this...

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From: Johan Kjellman <johan.kjellman at em.uu.se>
Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 11:21 AM
Subject: [oryctics] Charles Lyell's notebooks
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Charles Lyell (1797-1875) is well known as a key figure in history of
science, particularly for his part in the Darwinian evolutionary debates
and in convincing readers of the significance of 'deep time'. (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lyell) During the past decade,
Lyell's geographical theory of climate and his subdivision of recent
geological strata have gained renewed attention in connection with
discussions of climate change and the Anthropocene. The Lyell archive is
almost certainly the most important manuscript collection relating to
nineteenth century science still in private hands. At its core are 294
notebooks, which provide a daily record of Lyell's private thoughts,
travels, field observations and conversations.

In order for the family to meet inheritance tax, the Lyell notebooks were
sold to an unknown foreign buyer towards the end of last year. Fortunately,
the UK government has imposed a temporary export ban to enable fundraising
to purchase these remarkable documents, conserve them, and make them
available on-line for free to the public. The University of Edinburgh
Library, which already has the largest collection of Lyell material, is
organising the campaign. The website for this became active at the end of
last week. The sum required is £1,444,000; major donors have already
pledged more than a third of the total needed.

The temporary export ban has an initial deadline of 15th July, so time is
extremely short. If significant progress is made, then it may be extended
until 15th October. Therefore, all who are interested are asked to pledge a
donation, which will only be collected when the required amount is
achieved. For more information about the notebooks and to make a pledge,
please click on
https://www.ed.ac.uk/giving/save-lyell-notebooks/pledge-to-save/

If you can give anything to this campaign--even five pounds or a pound--it
will make a big difference, not least in showing larger donors that there
is substantial public interest and concern. It would be great if we can get
the donor count over 1000.

Please pass on this message to anyone who might be interested.



Johan Kjellman










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