Lindsay-Carnegie, William Fullerton, 1788–1860 (Scottish industrialist, plant collector | Vice-lieutenant of Forfarshire, 1856–60)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from W.L. Carnegie, 1841
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/22
Scope and Contents
Letter with envelope to Sir Charles Lyell from W. L. Carnegie asking for information and advice on geological matters. He requests that Lyell might tell him where to find publications of Lyell's work and which publication about Trap he should buy. He discusses his work at quarries near Newcastle and relates a story (with diagram) about contractors there. He also mentions that he has discovered a quarry with superior material and expects to be able to supply Arbroath with cheap, high quality...
Dates:
1841
Letters from Carnegie, W. F. Lindsay, to Charles Lyell, 19th century
File — Box Box 3.1: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/23
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
- 10 boxes of correspondence
- 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
- 24 boxes of offprints of papers
- 294 notebooks
Dates:
19th century