Sept. 26th./ 62
My dear Sir
I have never seen Mortillet’s1 paper2—or you sh[ou]ld have had it—He sent me his map alone which is not at hand. I had a small part of it made into a wood cut3 in which operation it seems to have been mislaid but may turn up in a day or two—If the map of the glaciers w[ou]ld be of any use I will try & find it for you if you will write & say so by post.
Ramsay I think told me he had some paper by Mortillet explanatory of the map.
[al[wa]y[s] y[ou]r[s] | Cha Lyell
RI MS JT/1/L/48
RI MS JT/1/TYP/3/847
Mortillet’s: Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821–1898), a French archeologist and anthropologist best known for his clarification and ordering of the archeology of the Paleolithic (Dictionnaire de biographie française, 21 vols (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1932–2016).
paper: G. de Mortillet, ‘Carte Des Anciens Glaciers du Versant Italien Des Alpes. Memoria letta nell’ adunanza del 23 decembre 1860’, Atti della Società Italiena di Scienze Naturali, 3 (1861), p. 44–81.
made into a wood cut: Lyell included this as figure 43 in his Antiquity of Man (London: John Murray, 1863), with the heading, ‘Map of the Moraines of Extinct Glaciers Extending from the Alps at the Plains of the Po near Turin’ (p. 306).
Please cite as “Tyndall1929,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on