Who has supported the campaign
Leading institutions, groups and individuals have generously supported or endorsed our campaign to save Lyell's notebooks.
Thanks to the generosity of over 1,100 individuals, institutions and supporters from Scotland, the United Kingdom and around the world we were able to save Sir Charles Lyell’s notebooks. We extend a warm and heartfelt thank you to those who made it possible, including:
The Roy Alexander Charitable Trust
Amateur Geological Society
Baldoukie Charitable Trust
Blackbourn Geoconsulting
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cambridge Society of Edinburgh
The Curry Fund, Geologists' Association
History Of Earth Sciences Society
Edinburgh Geological Society
Edinburgh University Club of London
Friends of Edinburgh University Library
Friends of the National Libraries
The Friends of Charles Darwin
GeoConservationUK
GeoLancashire
The German Geological Society
The Geological Society of Glasgow
Ground and Project Consultants Ltd
Harrow and Hillingdon Geological Society
Heriot-Watt University
Highland Geological Society
History of Geology Group
The Lipman Family Foundation
The Liverpool Geological Society
Manchester Geological Association
The John R Murray Charitable Trust
National Heritage Memorial Fund
National Library of Scotland
Geological Society of Norfolk
North Sea Core
Palaeontological Association
Petroleum History Institute
Reading Geological Society
Tayside Geodiversity
Edinburgh University Club of Toronto
Town & Country Fine Foods
Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group
Nean Allman
Ronald L Austin
Vincent Balfour
Peter W Barnes, CEng FEI SPE
Anne Barrett, AIC MA, Imperial College London
David G Bate
Richard Battersby, Friend of Edinburgh University Library
Dr Graham Beamson
Prof German E Berrios
Dr Denis Bilodeau
Dr P E Binns
Prof Patrick Boylan, Professor Emeritus, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City, University of London
Carolyn Brodie Mackay
Dr Alan D G Brown
Dr Iain Gordon Brown, FSA FRSE
John Burgener
Bob Burrell
Prof Stephen Casper, Professor of History at Clarkson University
Sam Caethoven
Pratik Chakrabarti
Mrs Lynne Cockitt
Helen Cromie
Peter Crowther
Prof Martin Culshaw
Prof Stephen Daly
Mrs Charlotte Dean (nee Bulman)
Prof Paul Dennis, Professorial Research Fellow, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Dr Peter Dolan
Jason Drake
Roger Dunshea, FGS
Emeritus Professor, Dr David Elliot, School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University
Dr Martin C Evans
Dr P A Floyd
Prof Richard Fortey FRS
Peter B Freshwater, MA DipLib FSA Scot, Former Deputy University Librarian, Honorary Secretary Friends of Edinburgh University Library, Editor of the University of Edinburgh Journal
Ian Gardiner
Louise Gardiner
Robert G Garrett
Brian Garvan
Olwen Goss
Dr Alastair Graham, Petroleum Geologist and former BP Executive
Dr Tim Grapes
Dr Andrew Grout, Edinburgh University Library
Philip Hadland
David E W Hall
Dr Donald Hallett
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
John Henry
Dr Garrett Herman
Jon Hodge
J M Hodgson
Mrs C A Horrocks
Mr James Hunter
David Jarman, Mountain Landform Research, Ross-shire, Scotland
Peter Jones
Prof Emeritus Gilbert Kelling, OBE
Mr Peter Kennett
Dr Diane Knill (Lady Knill)
Marie Knudsen
Marie Korey
Rachel Laudan
Prof Alan Lord, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut Frankfurt
Prof John Ludden, CBE
Fiona V MacKelvie
Catarina Madruga
Prof David Manning, FGS CGeol CSci EurGeol
Philip Marshall
Professor Dr Alison Martin, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Dr Roger Mason
Professor John Mather, Emeritus Professor of Geology, University of London, formerly Lyell Professor of Geology, Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr John A A McCallum
David McClay
Chris McCormick
Gregor McElvogue
Dr Annette McGrath
Roy W McIntyre, member of the History of Geology Group
Duncan J McKay
Dr Alex Menez, CBiol MRSB FLS
Professor Martin Menzies, Lyell Professor, Royal Holloway University of London
Peter Micklethwait
Simon Richard Miles
Prof Stuart Monro, OBE
Dr Peter Morris
Dr Arthur Murchison
Prof John Murray, Southampton
John Naismith
Dr Stephen Ng
Prof Dr Kärin Nickelsen, Historisches Seminar der LMU München
Peter Nicol
Dr James Nye
Naomi Oreskes
Prof Graham Park
John Parkins
Dr Ronald Pattinson
Dr David Pattison, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Canada
Ruth Pollitt
Martin Price
Claire Priestley-O'Keeffe
Dr Kevin Privett
Dr Colin Prosser
Dr D I Rainey
Dr Tom J A Reijers
Dr Ruth Richardson FRHistS
Dr Mary Rimmer
Prof Isabel Rivers
Dr Ian Rolfe, formerly Deputy Director of the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, and Keeper of Geology, National Museum of Scotland; joint leader of Royal Society of Edinburgh’s 1997 Lyell bicentennial excursion to Lyell country
Prof Martin Rudwick, Professor Emeritus of History of Science, University of California San Diego, Honorary Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge
Mr Eric Russell
Sefa Sahin
Richard Scothorne
Professor James A Secord, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Director, Darwin Correspondence Project
Prof Dick Selley, Imperial College, London
Dr Alastair D.L. Sharp
Alexander Shaw, Kirriemuir
David Shilston, CGeol FGS FRSA, Past-President, The Geological Society of London
Prof Graeme Simpson
Dr Peter W Skelton
Alastair and Carola Small
Jennifer Nimmo Smith
Dr Anthony Spencer
Roy Starkey
Dr Michael Stock
James Sutherland, retired engineering geologist and geotechnical engineer
Brian Tait
Paul Tambuyser
Taylors of Tannadice
Prof Gavin H Thomas, University of York
Dr Christopher Toland, Managing Director, Oolithica Geoscience Ltd
Richard Trounson
John Underhill
Dr John van Wyhe, Director of The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
Andrew Wainwright
Prof Germaine Warkentin, FRSC
Susan Watt
Karsten Werner
Margaret Wilkes
Mrs Caroline Willis
Dr Andrew Wilson
Professor Charles W J Withers, Ogilvie Chair of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Geographer Royal for Scotland
Sarah Wride
Dr Jeremy R Young, Earth Sciences, University College London
Thank you as well to all of our supporters who wish to remain anonymous. If your name does not appear and you would like it to, please contact David McClay.
This is an exceptional collection in the story of earth science.