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Sorby, Henry Clifton, 1826-1908 (geologist)

 Person

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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Archibald Geikie, correpondence

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1518/2
Scope and Contents Letters to Sir Archibald Geike from: Hicks, Henry (25 Oct. 1887); Hooker, Joseph Dalton (Sir) (May 1890); Horne, John (5 Jun. 1898); Huxley, Thomas Henry (17 May 1862); Kidston, Robert (3 Aug. 1883); Lapworth, Charles (Sir) (16 Nov. 1898); Lyell, Charles (Sir) (31 Mar. 1860); Marcou, Jules (5 Jan. 1871); Marcon, Jules (30 Apr. 1878); Milne, John (15 Aug. 1895); Peach, Benjamin Neve (19 Oct. 1898); Prestwich, Joseph (Sir) (15 May 1892?); Scrope, G. Poulett (1866?); Sorby, Henry...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1840s-1940s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers on 19th Century Geology (Lyell and Geikie)

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: William Johnson Sollas to WC Trevelyan, 1870-1915

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/13/8
Scope and Contents The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: William Johnson Sollas to WC Trevelyan sub-series includes letters from: William Johnson Sollas Henry Clifton Sorby Eduard Seuss William Kirby Sullivan Ralph Tate Jethro Justinian Harris Teall Charles Wyville Thomson Ramsay Heatley...
Dates: 1870-1915
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (international and T-W)

Letters from Sorby, Henry Clifton to Charles Lyell, 19 January 1856 - 2 December 1864

 File — Box Box 1.12: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/248
Scope and Contents Lyell summarises the letters as: 1) Sorby Jan 19 1856 enclosing speculation of organic clay & sand. Depth of water determined by strata. 2) Sorby June 5 1860, Flint Heterlite at Grennelle (Seine) & Precy Oise with mammoth. 3) Sorby Whether diatonase in chalk. 4) On metanous phison, reference to his paper Brit. Assoc. report. Also contains two small samples of clay in a paper pouch. 5) Quartz crystallize from fusion & metamorphism, Dec 2...
Dates: 19 January 1856 - 2 December 1864
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

Notebook No.245, 6 November 1860 - March 1861

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/245
Scope and Contents Teal coloured leather Notebook, the index appears at the back of the book. On this occasion, Lyell creates the index chronologically, with the dates noted first, then page numbers and subjects. The notebook starts with Lyell in London. He creates a table for calculating the rate of rising of land. He is preparing to travel to Paris – listing maps and books to take, Notebooks which document earlier visits to Amiens, Abbeville, articles to read etc. Page 44 notes the weights of both Charles...
Dates: 6 November 1860 - March 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Sorby Research Fund, 1909-1914

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/4
Scope and Contents

The Sorby Research Fund series consists of:


  1. Constitution of the Sorby Research Fund, in handwritten, typewritten and printed forms
  2. Correspondence relating to the establishment of the fund
  3. Notes
Dates: 1909-1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie

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