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Royal Institution of Great Britain (1799-:)

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Lecture notes, 1884-1886

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/7
Scope and Contents

The Lecture notes series consists of:


  1. Notes and printed abstracts.
Dates: 1884-1886

Lecture on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', 1886

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/7/2
Scope and Contents

Notes for 4 lectures on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', given to the Royal Institution in 1886. Sir Archibald Geikie looked at the emergence of types of geological formations against a geological timeframe and how they have been affected by various processes, especially the action of volcanoes and materials produced by them, within the natural world. He used examples from numerous locations from different parts of the British Isles.

Dates: 1886

Royal Institution of Great Britain: Syllabus of a Course of Three Lectures on the Origin of Land-Surfaces by Archibald Geikie, FRS, 1867-1868

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/8/2
Scope and Contents

Syllabus for a series of 3 lectures Sir Archibald Geikie gave to The Royal Insitution of Great Britain in 1869, broadly focusing on valleys, hills and mountains, erosion, geological structure and related subjects.

Dates: 1867-1868

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Subject
Alps 2
Erosion 2
Europe 2
Landscape 2
Lectures and Lecturing 2
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Norway 2
Volcanic Activity 2
Volcanoes 2
Armagh (Northern Ireland : County) 1
Arran Buteshire Scotland 1
Ayrshire Scotland 1
Banffshire Scotland 1
Basalt 1
Berwickshire (Scotland) 1
Bosses (Geology) 1
Botany 1
Bristol Channel 1
Buckie (Scotland) 1
Campsie (Scotland) 1
Cornwall England 1
County Antrim Northern Ireland 1
County Donegal Ireland 1
Derbyshire (England) 1
Devon England 1
Dumbarton Dunbartonshire Scotland 1
Dykes (Geology) 1
Earth Sculpture 1
Faults (Geology) 1
Fintry (Scotland) 1
Formations (Geology) 1
Fossils 1
Garlton Hills (Scotland) 1
Geography 1
Geological Time 1
Geology 1
Geology, Stratigraphic Archaean 1
Geology, Stratigraphic Cambrian 1
Geology, Stratigraphic Carboniferous 1
Geology, Stratigraphic Cretaeceous 1
Geology, Stratigraphic Devonian 1
Geology, Stratigraphic Jurassic 1
Geology, Stratigraphic Tertiary 1
Geology, Stratigraphic Triassic 1
Geology, Structural 1
Great Glen (Scotland) 1
Hebrides (Scotland) 1
Ireland 1
Isle of Bute Buteshire Scotland 1
Isle of Man 1
Isle of Mull Argyllshire Scotland 1
Lake District (England) 1
Lakes 1
Lakes, Former 1
Lanarkshire (Scotland) 1
Largo Largo Scotland 1
Lava Flows 1
Limerick (Ireland : County) 1
London (England) 1
Moon 1
Moray Firth (Scotland) 1
Mountains 1
Necks (Geology) 1
Ness, Loch (Scotland) 1
Nithsdale (Scotland) 1
Ochil Hills (Scotland) 1
Old Red Sandstone 1
Orcadie, Lake (Orkney, Scotland) 1
Pembrokeshire (Wales) 1
Pentland Hills (Scotland) 1
Plateaus 1
Renfrewshire Scotland 1
Reptiles 1
Rock Types 1
Roxburghshire 1
Russia 1
Scandinavia 1
Scotland 1
Shetland (Scotland) 1
Sidlaw Hills (Scotland) 1
Sills (Geology) 1
Snowdon (Wales) 1
Spain 1
Strathbogie (Scotland) 1
Valleys 1
Vents, Volcanic 1
Volcanic ash, tuff, etc. 1
Volcanoes (Extinction) 1
Wales 1
Zoology 1
silurian 1
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