King, William, 1809-1886 (professor of geology, Queen?s College, Galway)
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from William Benjamin Carpenter, 09 December 1865
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 501-502
Scope and Contents
Letter, thanking Lyell for forwarding some specimens. Descriptions of results in experiments to isolate the Foraminefera Eozoon from these and other specimens. Details of a dispute concerning this with William King and the possible diagrammatic presentation of results at the Geological Society of London when King presents his paper, 09 December 1865.
Dates:
09 December 1865
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from William Benjamin Carpenter, 09 January 1866
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 505-506
Scope and Contents
Letter, with envelope, reporting that Carpenter had been showing Rowney thin sections of Canadian Eozoon, a species of foraminefera to prove its existance to him. Asserts that Story-Maskerlyne and Busk are convinced it exists and that King and Rowney had been studying rocks which were too heavily metamorphosed. 09 January 1866.
Dates:
09 January 1866
Sketch map of the area North-west of Forfar, c1822-1824
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/5
Scope and Contents
Pen and ink sketch map of area North-west of Forfar showing the loch of Forfar, Alyth, Kirriemuir and Cortachie c1822-1824.
Dates:
c1822-1824