Boog-Watson, Robert, 1823-1910 (clergyman and zoologist)

Scope and Contents The Correspondence with Robert Boog-Watson sub-series consists of: 3 letters from Sir Archibald Geikie (1862-1863) inscribed reprint: Geikie | Archibald | Sir | 1835-1924 | professor of geology, University of Edinburgh, On the Phenomena of the Glacial Drift in Scotland, ( Glasgow,...

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Letter to Robert Boog-Watson from Sir Archibald Geikie. Geikie discusses Boog-Watson's geological mapping of the south end of Arran and compares it with his own mapping of the Isle of Bute, the Cumbrae Islands, Renfrewshire and Ayrshire. He discusses Scotland's old red sandstone unconformity. He extends an invitation to join him in mapping Tinto Hill as soon as his expected working visit from Lennox is over.

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Letter to Robert Boog-Watson from Sir Archibald Geikie thanking him for his gift of figs and telling him that his diet is currently restricted due to ill health. He reports on a difficult visit from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay. He discusses the geological unconformity of the south end of the Isle of Bute and includes a sketch cross-section.

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Letter to Robert Boog-Watson from Sir Archibald Geikie while on field study in Ayrshire. Geikie suggests that he writes a paper on the Arran deposit at Lamlash. He discusses his geological research in Ayrshire in detail and in particular glacial deposits. He reports a technical difficulty with his possible professorship. He mentions Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay's possible future movements and his current health.

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Letter book of correspondence from McCrie to Rev. Charles Watson, minister of Burntisland. 39 letters, dated 1819 and 1831-34.

Also bound in:

Account of the controversy respecting the Marrow of Modern Divinity, 1831-1832. 110 pages.

Address on Sabbath observance. December 1832. 16 pages.

Front board bears bookplate commemorating presentation to New College Library by the Family of Rev. Robert Boog Watson.

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Copy of: Geikie, Archibald, On the Phenomena of the Glacial Drift in Scotland, ( Glasgow, John Gray, 1863) inscribed by the author.