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Green notebook, leather spine & corners, (8" x 5"); 174pp, MS Journal beginning...
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- HD/14/m
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1828
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Green notebook, leather spine & corners, (8" x 5"); 174pp, MS
Journal beginning 21 July, Ischl; additional items relating to 2nd edition of Salmonia, written in Southern Austria; notes of journey to Rome "where I arrived Nov 19th 1828.
Inside cover note on bread; note written with left hand, 23 July 1828
Pp.1-38 notes on travels, health, fishing; with some sketches
Pp.39-48 additions to Salmonia
Pp.49-70 travel notes, including fishing, ornithology, weather
Pp.71-72 philosophical notes - proofs of existence of a supreme intelligence
Pp.73-76 notes on instinct (Salmonia)
P.76 notes on health and weather
Pp.77-79 migration
Pp.79-107 notes on instinct etc. (Salmonia)
Pp.107-110 travel notes
Pp.110-112 additions to Salmonia
Pp.112-113 travel notes and notes on fish and birds
Pp.114-115 German vocabulary
Pp.116-122 travel notes
P.123 note of money drawn
Pp.124-132 travel notes (to Rome)
Pp.135-146 notes on the shock from the torpedo
Pp.147-160 additions to Salmonia
P.162 sketches of fish
P.164 sketches of fish
Pp.164-170 additions to Salmonia
Pp.172-174 notes of philosophical speculations in The Vision (Colosseum) back cover Italian phrases
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- Royal Institution of Great Britain
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- English
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Papers and correspondence of Sir Humphry Davy.
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Green notebook, leather spine & corners, (8" x 5"); 174pp, MS Journal beginning...