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Royal Institution of Great Britain (1799-:)

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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 Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles', 1884

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/7/1
Scope and Contents

Notes for 5 lectures on 'The Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles' given to the Royal Institution in 1884, along with printed abstracts. Sir Archibald Geikie focused on geological formations around the British Isles, with comparisons from European and North American locations, looking at the materials of which they are composed and the processes which went into their creation.

Dates: 1884

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: Landscape X

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Subject
Erosion 2
Europe 2
Geology 2
Great Britain 2
Mountains 2
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Rock Types 2
Volcanic Activity 2
Volcanoes 2
Alps 1
Arctic Ocean 1
Atlantic Ocean 1
Avon, River (Gloucestershire-Avon, England) 1
Baltic Sea 1
Belgium 1
Brecon (Wales) 1
Bristol Channel 1
Cheshire (England) 1
Clwyd (Wales) 1
Clyde River Valley (Scotland) 1
Coal 1
Coastal Landforms 1
Cork Ireland 1
Cotswold Hills (England) 1
County Donegal Ireland 1
Dover, Strait of 1
Drainage 1
Dykes (Geology) 1
Earth Movements 1
Earth Sculpture 1
England 1
English Channel 1
Escarpments 1
Faults (Geology) 1
France 1
Galway (Ireland) 1
Geological Time 1
Germany 1
Granite 1
Great Glen (Scotland) 1
Hebrides (Scotland) 1
Highlands Scotland 1
Humber, River (England) 1
Ice Sheets 1
Iceland 1
Ireland 1
Irish Sea Europe 1
Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Kerry (Ireland) 1
Lake District (England) 1
Laws, Geological 1
Loch Maree Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
Loch Tay (Scotland) 1
Lomond, Loch (Scotland) 1
London (England) 1
Mayo (Ireland : County) 1
Mediterranean Sea 1
Nith River (Scotland) 1
Norfolk (England) 1
North America 1
North Sea 1
Norway 1
Ocean bottom 1
Old Red Sandstone 1
Pennine Chain (England) 1
Plains 1
Plateaus 1
Ravines 1
Scandinavia 1
Scotland 1
Severn River (Wales and England) 1
Shannon River (Ireland) 1
Shropshire (England) 1
Snowdon (Wales) 1
Submergence 1
Subsidences (Earth Movements) 1
Suffolk (England) 1
Sutherland Scotland 1
Tay River (Scotland) 1
Thames, River (England) 1
Trent, River (England) 1
Upheaval 1
Usk River (Wales) 1
Valleys 1
Volcanic Fields 1
Wales 1
Wye, River (Wales and England) 1
Yorkshire (England) 1
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