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
From the Series:
This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z, including one ‘Miscellaneous’ section within the 'M' series. Each correspondent has been assigned a file number – there may be several folders within that file, evidencing the longevity and depth of the relationship between Lyell and the correspondent - for example his brother in law Charles Bunbury.
Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the...
Dates:
15 July 1860-10 November 1873
Letters from Lyell, Charles to Favre, Alphonse, 11 April 1865 - 19 April 1865
File — Box Unknown: 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