Blackadder, William, 1782-1860 (Surveyor, Architect from Glamis, Forfarshire)
Person
Dates
- Existence: c1782 - 20 October 1860
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Extracts from Geological Works, 1824
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A2/3
Scope and Contents
Contains mostly extracts from select Geological Works, and some illustrations. Geological Works referred to include H[ar]burton on some beds of Shell Marle in Scotland; various authors on Bakie including Blackadder, Ogilvie; Humboldt's Personal Narrative. A number of pages blank, paginated.
Dates:
1824
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from William Blackadder regarding the geology of Forfarshire, 16 March 1825
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/25
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from William Blackadder discussing various geological matters including the heights of diluvium in the Forfarshire area, the lochs in the Forfarshire area and his suspicions that land near Cortachie had once been a lake, marl deposition in the Forfarshire and Borders areas of Scotland and flints found in Aberdeenshire, 16 March 1825.
Dates:
16 March 1825
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- Subject: Angus (Scotland) X
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- Aberdeenshire (Scotland) 1
- Deposition and Sedimentation 1
- Diluvium 1
- Flint 1
- Lochs 1