Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist)
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Robert Boog-Watson from Sir Archibald Geikie, 10 December 1863
Letter to Robert Boog-Watson from Sir Archibald Geikie while on field study in Ayrshire. Geikie suggests that he writes a paper on the Arran deposit at Lamlash. He discusses his geological research in Ayrshire in detail and in particular glacial deposits. He reports a technical difficulty with his possible professorship. He mentions Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay's possible future movements and his current health.
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from A Delesse, 13 November 1872
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from A Delesse thanking him for sending the third edition of his work 'Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain'. He goes on to ask some questions connected directly with illustrations in the work. He also mentions Ramsay's interest, his own work 'Lithology of the bottom of the ocean'.
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Bartolommeo Gastaldi, 14 February 1873
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Bartolommeo Gastaldi reporting a riot at his school where a colleague's lectures were boycotted. He mentions having sent details of geological maps of the area around Jura and promises to pay what he owes to the Geological Survey. Mention is also made of a letter by Gastaldi that Sir Charles Lyell is having published in the next edition of the Geological Magazine.
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Charles Ludolf Griesbach, 14 September 1878
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Charles Ludolf Griesbach thanking him for recommending him for the post of 3rd grade assistant on the Geological Survey of India.
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from E Dison, 27 June 1867
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from E Dison in Paris, apologising for the delay in forwarding his diploma conferring honorary membership of the Swiss Naturalists. The letter postulates whether Sir Ramsay could collect it in person while attending the Anthropological and Palioethaological Congress in Paris, or whether it could be delivered during a visit to the Great Exhibition. The letter details a fossil bear thought to be pre-glacial.
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Ernest Favre, 20 February 1875
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Ernest Favre who is sending him a copy of a geological work he has just completed on a range of mountains in the central area of Caucasus in Russia. He states that he has added many more routes/tracks to the original map designed by Frederic Dubois de Montpereux. His father, Alphonse Favre, has suggested that he approach Ramsay in the first instance to present the work to the Geological Society of London.
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from G Merian, 12 November 1873
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.
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Hugh Edwin Strickland, 02 October 1850
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.
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Laurent Guillaume De Koninck, 03 January 1873
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Laurent Guillaume de Koninck congratulating him on being nominated into a certain academy in Belgium.
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Professor Alphonse Favre, 03 April 1872
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.