Favre, Alphonse, 1815-1890 (Swiss professor of geology, University of Geneva)
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Professor Alphonse Favre, 03 April 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/1/10
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Alphonse Favre enquiring whether it would be possible for the central public library at Geneva to continue receiving Geological Survey publications, an arrangement first brought into operation the previous December by Sir Henry de la Beche and Sir Roderick Impey Murchison.
Dates:
03 April 1872
Letters from Favre, Alphonse to Charles Lyell, 15 July 1860-10 November 1873
File — Box Box 1.4: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/77
Scope and Contents
These letters are listed in date order, quoting the number Lyell has assigned to them. Written in French, Lyell summarises the letters in English as:
1) Alph[onse] Favre, Quartz crystal on St Acheul, Hatchets, 1861
2) A. Favre, Escher on Sahara, Civilization of man need not exceed 6000 years, July 7th 1864 [Arnold Escher von der Linth (1807-1872)]
4) A. Favre, Fahn [sic Foehn] Wind & Glaciers, Mar[ch] 9th 1864
1) [Aug] Origin of Lake - basins & of that of...
Dates:
15 July 1860-10 November 1873
Letters from Lyell, Charles to Favre, Alphonse, 11 April 1865 - 19 April 1865
File — Box Box 1.14: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); Series Coll-203/1B
Identifier: Coll-203/1B/8
Scope and Contents
Copy letters summarised as 'On Ramsay's erosion of Lake basins' and 'Upheavel & depression as a cause of Lake basins'.
Dates:
11 April 1865 - 19 April 1865