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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 Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from G Merian, asking for copies of publications for la Bibliotheque de l'Universite de Bale, as previously promised, to complete a set.

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Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Hugh Edwin Strickland asking for corrections to the thicknesses of the Cambrian series for a vertical section of the series of British strata which he was preparing for a lecture at Oxford.

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Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Alphonse Favre enquiring whether it would be possible for the central public library at Geneva to continue receiving Geological Survey publications, an arrangement first brought into operation the previous December by Sir Henry de la Beche and Sir Roderick Impey Murchison.

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Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from an unidentified correspondent thanking him for letters and articles that he has sent. He mentions the geological survey of Russia, and all the problems this entails. In many areas of Russia it is suspected the geological research will be in a similar vein as in Canada and the American prairies. He goes on to describe a further scientific project to examine the geology and geomorphology of the Aral Sea and Caspian Sea areas.

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The Letters to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay sub-series consists of:

Scope and Contents The papers Sir Archibald Geikie consist of: personal, organisational and scientific correspondence geological notebooks with field sketches and water-colours reprints of his work miscellaneous lecture notes student's lecture notes lecture notes and printed maps relating to a visit to Boston proofs for...