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Gastaldi, Bartolommeo, 10 February 1818 – 5 January 1879 (Italian professor, geologist and paleontologist, and one of the founders of the Club Alpino Italiano)

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Bartolommeo Gastaldi, 14 February 1873

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/1/7
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 14 February 1873

Letters from Gastaldi, Bartholomeo to Charles Lyell, 28 August 1857 - 25 May 1866

 File — Box Box 1.4: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/85
Scope and Contents

"Lyell summarises the letters as:
1) 'Gastaldi, Turin & Swift miocene fossils compared.'
2) 'Gastaldi, E. primigenius Loggia Turin.'
3) 'Gastaldi section.'
4) 'Gastaldi sending section of [?] erratic block formation.'"

Dates: 28 August 1857 - 25 May 1866