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Hunterian Museum (1783-:)

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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Thomas Wright to John Young, 1869-1896

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/13/13
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Thomas Wright to John Young sub-series includes letters from:


  1. Thomas Wright
  2. John Young
Dates: 1869-1896

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Walter Gregory, 29 December 1927

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/33/14
Scope and Contents

Gregory writes that the lower jaw of a horse has been discovered in the upper drifts filling the pre-glacial valley of the Clyde at Lanark. He suspects that it dates from around the Early Neolithic period. He asks Ewart to look at the specimen and write a short note on it for inclusion in the Hunterian Museum glacial vertebrate fossils.

Dates: 29 December 1927

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Walter Gregory, 03 February 1928

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/34/1
Scope and Contents

Gregory enquires after Ewart's note on the horse for the Museum catalogue, as it is ready to go to print.

Dates: 03 February 1928

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Walter Gregory, 08 February 1928

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/34/2
Scope and Contents

Gregory writes that he has provisionally inserted the bed in a tabular classification as Neolithic. He believes it must be post-glacial, as it represents the silting up of valleys which were excavated at the end of glacial times, but the horse jaw is the only fossil evidence of this.

Dates: 08 February 1928

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Subject
Horses 3
Fossils 2
Mandible 2
Museums 2
Neolithic Period 2