Harcourt, Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon, 1827-1904 (British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman)
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of a letter to Sir William Harcourt from Edwin Ray Lankester, 18 April 1882
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/1/13
Scope and Contents
Lankester announces his resignation from the Chair of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, citing peculiar conditions of candidature and competition, and previously undisclosed teaching duties as reasons for not accepting the post.
Dates:
18 April 1882
Letters from Harcourt, William Vernon to Charles Lyell, 3 February 1832
File — Box Box 1.5: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/116
Scope and Contents
Limestone of Berwick
Dates:
3 February 1832
Notebook No.197, April 1854 - August 1854
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/197
Scope and Contents
This black notebook covers the months between April and August 1854, recording Charles Lyell's final travel in Madeira and the Canary Islands, includes his voyage home and ends in London. Some of the key locations this notebook discusses are Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Madeira, Baranco de Santos, and Pico De Cruz. The beginning of this notebook includes sketches and notes on the geological formations of Madeira and Tenerife including dikes, alluvium, basalt, tuff, columnar lava and breccia. Whilst...
Dates:
April 1854 - August 1854