Miller, Hugh, 1802-1856 (man of letters and geologist)
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Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook No.147, 15 June 1846 - July 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/147
Content warning:
This Notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s return to the UK after his second travel to America (Notebooks 121- 145), and so covers American and UK topics, whilst he is based on London, before travelling to Kinnordy - via Edinburgh, Granton and Craig Crook Castle. Note on pg. 70 indexed as 'Ld Cockburn, Hill's daguerrotype' indicates they visited Bonaly, where the Lyell were photographed. This notebook has a hard light brown cover with red on the spine and in triangles on the corners....
Dates:
15 June 1846 - July 1846
Notebook No.153, 19 July 1847 - 6 September 1847
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/153
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 19 July 1847 to 18 September 1847 [the stated end date is inferred from the start date of the following notebook]. There is an abstract of a ‘Times Sept. 6. 1847’ article and a discussion in response to a letter from Charles Darwin dated 8 September 1847. Lyell is home in Kinnordy with no excursions or visited locales being explicitly recorded during this time. The approximate first third of the daily entries are focused on the management of...
Dates:
19 July 1847 - 6 September 1847
Notebook No.155, January 1848 - May 1848
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/155
Scope and Contents
This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s discussions, ideas, and recordings when in London, starting in January 1848 and including some focus on ’Americana’ before his second travels in American was published in 1849. The first pages (and from p 78] are notes on pages and references relating to the other American notebooks - which could be publishing related or organisational. It covers conversations, queries, and discussions he started in America including geological,...
Dates:
January 1848 - May 1848
Notebook No.180, October 1852 - October 1852
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/180
Scope and Contents
Notebook 180 begins in mid-October and ends in late December 1852. Lyell is in the United States, traveling in the Boston area and giving a six-week lecture series for the Lowell Institute. In the first half of the notebook, Lyell is working with Louis Agassiz and Jeffries Wyman to identify the bones found while in Joggins, Nova Scotia. On December 1st, the Lyells departed on the steamship Asia for Liverpool, arriving on December 12th. The last section of the notebook continues with geologic...
Dates:
October 1852 - October 1852
Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-74
Scope and Contents
The papers Sir Archibald Geikie consist of:
personal, organisational and scientific correspondence
geological notebooks with field sketches and water-colours
reprints of his work
miscellaneous lecture notes
student's lecture notes
lecture notes and printed maps relating to a visit to Boston
proofs for...
Dates:
1851-1921
Print entitled "Kōfu Sake wo Tachite Issei no Kuwauju to Naru" [To Become a World-Famous Scholar After Renouncing Alcohol] illustrated by Kobayashi Toshikazu
Item
Identifier: MS MIL3
Scope and Contents
This is a woodblock-printed illustration entitled "Kōfu Sake wo Tachite Issei no Kuwauju to Naru" [To Become a World-Famous Scholar After Renouncing Alcohol], illustrated by Kobayashi Toshikazu, and corrected by Tominaga Toshichika. Tōkyō: Tsuji Keiji: Fukyū sha, Meiji 21 [1888]. "Later printing".It is a supplement to the Nishiki-e Shūshindan ("Brocade Pictures for Moral Education") series of texts for primary school students. The books, produced by Fukyū sha, Yoshitoshi, and...
Dates:
Publication: Meiji 21 [1888 C.E.]
Found in:
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Right of Way - Encounter in Glen Tilt; Irish and Scotch Clearings, 1 September 1847
piece
Identifier: Coll-10/4/88
Scope and Contents
Right of Way - Encounter in Glen Tilt; Irish and Scotch Clearings. Letterpress. 1 September 1847. Miller, Hugh, 1802-1856, Editor; The Witness (Edinburgh), Publisher.
Published in: The Witness, 1 September 1847.
Note: Newspaper cutting: reprinted articles from the Scotsman and the Morning Advertiser.
Dates:
1 September 1847
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