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Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh)

 Person

Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:

Annotated Map of Gibraltar, 1868

 Item
Identifier: Coll-99/11/1
Scope and Contents

Coloured index map to the 1/600 Plans of Gibraltar, with geological annotations detailing features such as raised beaches and shale.

Dates: 1868

Annotated map of the Faroe Islands, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/8
Scope and Contents

'Chart of the Færoe Islands, surveyed by order of the Danish Admiralty by Captain H Born (1806)', with later annotations denoting geological features.

Dates: late 19th century

Birth certificate for Mary Dorothea Geikie, 1893

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Identifier: Coll-99/10/2
Scope and Contents

Birth certificate for Mary Dorothea Geikie, the birth being registered by her father, James Geikie.

Dates: 1893

Board of Studies in Pure Science Scroll Minute Book, 1895-1914

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Identifier: GB 0237 EUA IN1/ACA/SCI/1/5
Scope and Contents

Includes letters and reports, covering subjects such as course summaries. Those present at meetings included Alexander Crum Brown, Leonard Dobbin, James Cossar Ewart and James Geikie.

Dates: 1895-1914

Certificate of Right of Burial, 1910-1915

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Identifier: Coll-99/10/3
Scope and Contents

Certificate of Right of Burial in the Metropolitan Cemetery, Mornigside, Edinburgh, purchased by George Ramsay Geikie in 1910 together with receipt for headstone erected following the death of James Geikie in 1915.

Dates: 1910-1915

Chemistry Class Registration Book (Sir Lyon Playfair and Alexander Crum Brown), 1858-1873

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/C2/5
Scope and Contents

List of students attending chemistry classes of Sir Lyon Playfair, then Alexander Crum Brown, including marks for 'knowledge'. Students include Sophia Jex Blake and James Geikie.

Dates: 1858-1873

Christmas Cards, 1874

 Series
Identifier: Coll-99/7
Scope and Contents
  1. Christmas Cards
Dates: 1874

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

Coloured and annotated Orographic Map of Arthur's Seat, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/6
Scope and Contents

Orographic Map of Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh with added hand colouring and annotations denoting geological features.

Dates: late 19th century

Coloured and annotated plan of Edinburgh, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/5
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory plan (1879), with later hand colouring and notation denoting geological and other features.

Dates: late 19th century