Carruthers, William, 1830-1922 (botanist, Keeper of the Department of Botany, British Museum)
Person
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of 19th-century autograph letters assembled by the Rev. John Walker
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2103
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of c. 200 letters acquired by the Rev. John Walker (1855-1941), a Scottish-Australian autograph collector. The main fields of interest represented are geology, botany, theology, literature, academia, and politics. Names that feature particularly prominently include Walker's uncle John Stuart Blackie, Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh; William Garden Blaikie, Professor of Divinity at New College, Edinburgh; James Geikie, Professor of Geology at the...
Dates:
1792-1913
Letter from The Royal Society, to Charles Lyell, 30 November 1858 - 1864
File — Box Box 3.3: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/85
Scope and Contents
Letters containing an extract from the Address of the President of the Royal Society on presenting The Copley Medal to Sir Charles Lyell and an extract from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, No. 78; Obituary notice concerning Leonard Horner, 1785-1864.
Dates:
30 November 1858 - 1864
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 10 June 1912
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/41
Scope and Contents
Elwes writes that he has presented the three sheep skins collected by Carruthers to the British Museum on condition that they are mounted at once. He describes the wool of the sheep in the Calcutta Zoological Gardens and recommends that Ewart sees them when he goes. He has applied for a space at Bristol (the Royal Agricultural Show) the following year to exhibit a selection of his pure breeds and crosses, and asks Ewart to join him.
Dates:
10 June 1912
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 16 November 1911
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/77
Scope and Contents
Elwes writes that he is sending Ewart his paper for him to check, and asks him to select some photographs after consulting Eagle Clarke. He is also returning the original application as altered by Wallace, and recommends that Ewart make contact with Carruthers.
Dates:
16 November 1911
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 25 November [1911]
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/79
Scope and Contents
Elwes writes that he has no doubt that Carruthers will publish his discoveries when he returns. He asks that Ewart return the proof of his paper by 01 December at the latest. He commiserates over Ewart's farm and promises to help him when he returns to England the following year.
The year is not written on the letter.
Dates:
25 November [1911]
Letters from Carruthers, William to Charles Lyell, 29 August 1866 - 21 November 1873
File — Box Box 1.2: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/45
Scope and Contents
Notes by William Carruthers – a slip of paper referred to in Coll-203 Gen. 109 Lyell 1/527, giving detailed botanical editorial instructions concerning kelp and the growth of coal period trees, vegetation patterns and the resultant fossils. c 29 August 1866 Letter relating to fossils found in coal including Pothocites, Autholithes, [Carfioliltes] Helictoides. He mentions an ongoing scientific discussion between Brongniart, Ettingshausen and Morris as to the determination of the species...
Dates:
29 August 1866 - 21 November 1873
Letters from Hicks, Henry to Charles Lyell, 1 October 1868 - 20 March 1874
File — Box Box 1.7: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/130
Scope and Contents
Lyell’s summarises the letters as:
- 'The Cambrian group reduced to nothing if all the Longmynd [sic Long Mynd] are Silurian'. Thanking for receiving Elements edition, "there is an unusual charm in your books which compels a careful reading from them". Briefly refutes Mr Davidson’s Primordial Silurian group. 1 October 1868.
- 'Cambrian of Elements'. Divisions of periods, where they start & end, where various Welsh formations fall into those. Small diagram included...
Dates:
1 October 1868 - 20 March 1874
Miscellaneous letters A-J, 1791- 1884
File
Identifier: Coll-203/B2/1
Scope and Contents
Letters addressed to Charles Lyell, to Lady Mary Lyell, Katharine Lyell and other recipients including:
'A' Undated note from [Ahoard?] on Baron Steuben, accompanied by an original signed bank cheque written to pay T Lopez twenty dollars in New York 6th February 1791
'B' 22 June 1870 from O Becconi
'C' Undated letter, to 'dear friend' but likely to be...
Dates:
1791- 1884
Notebook No.256, 20 April 1869 - 10 September 1869
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/256
Scope and Contents
This dark green notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 20 April 1869 to 10 September 1869. Lyell starts in England and travels through Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria, with special attention to the Lake District. He then travels to Scotland, and from Edinburgh through Perthshire and the Highlands. Transcription note: This notebook was written by Charles, Mary and Arabella Buckley. The index is written entirely by...
Dates:
20 April 1869 - 10 September 1869
Notebook No.257, September 1869 - April 1870
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/257
Transcription note:
This dark green notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 10 September 1869 to 23 April 1870, and continues from the previous volume (256) starting in Scotland. Lyell travels from the Scottish Highlands, to Glasgow and Dumfries, then onto Devonshire, Suffolk, Somerset, and finishes back in Devon. Lyell attends meetings of various Societies, and writes about his correspondence with and the work of other notable researchers of the time. ...
Dates:
September 1869 - April 1870
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- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to 3
- Glen Clova 2
- Proofreading 2
- Roy, Glen (Highland, Scotland) 2
- article 2
- Agricultural exhibitions 1
- Angus (Scotland) 1
- Arthur's Seat (Edinburgh, Scotland) 1
- Assynt, Loch (Highland, Scotland) 1
- Athenæum Club (London, England) 1
- Australia -- Queensland 1
- Awe, Loch (Argyll and Bute, Scotland) 1
- Ben Nevis Kilmallie (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Blair Atholl (Scotland) 1
- Caledonian Canal (Scotland) 1
- Cambridge (England) 1
- Campsie (Scotland) 1
- Ceratodus 1
- Correspondence 1
- Cumbria (England) 1
- Demerara 1
- Devon, England 1
- Drumkilbo (Perthshire, Scotland) 1
- Dumfries (Scotland) 1
- Ely (England) 1
- Falls of Foyers (Highland, Scotland) 1
- Farms 1
- Fort Augustus, Highland, Scotland 1
- Fossil Wood 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Cambrian 1
- Glaciation 1
- Glasgow (Scotland) 1
- Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Scotland 1
- Gold mines and mining 1
- Guiana 1
- Hides and Skins 1
- Hybrids 1
- Invergarry Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland 1
- Kilmarnock (Scotland) 1
- Kilmaurs (Scotland) 1
- Laggan, Loch (Highland, Scotland) 1
- Lake District (England) 1
- Lancaster (England) 1
- Leeds (England) 1
- Lochranza 1
- Lomond, Loch (Scotland) 1
- Moel Tryfan 1
- Moray Firth (Highland, Scotland) 1
- Museums 1
- Orthoceras 1
- Photographs 1
- Pitlochry, Perth and Kinross, Scotland 1
- Pits 1
- Proteaceae 1
- Publications 1
- Quinag (Highland, Scotland) 1
- Raised Beaches 1
- River Spey Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Scotland -- Clyde River 1
- Scotland -- Sutherland 1
- Sedbergh (England) 1
- Sheep 1
- Skiddaw (Cumbria, England) 1
- Suffolk, England 1
- The Trossachs, Stirling, Scotland 1
- Ullapool Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- University of Edinburgh -- Class cards 1
- University of Edinburgh -- staff 1
- Wool 1
- Yorkshire (England) 1
- Zoos 1