McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
Commonplace book
Item
1 volume ; 21.5 cm
File contains half leather bound notebook with marbled paper over boards containing notes and diagrams on geological topics, including Murray Bay (La Malbaie) and Montreal (Hochelaga), sheets of drawings and diagrams laid or tipped in, newspaper clippings (including on 1871 Hawkesbury earthquake, an 1879 Ontario earthquake, and other Quebec earthquakes during the 1880s), and letters to William Dawson and other fragments of notes tipped in. Various dates found throughout.
Two sheets of notes previously laid in have been removed and unfolded.