Young, John, 1835-1902 (Gillespie lecturer in geology and Keeper of the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow)
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Thomas Wright to John Young, 1869-1896
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/13/13
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Thomas Wright to John Young sub-series includes letters from:
- Thomas Wright
- John Young
Dates:
1869-1896
Geological Survey of Scotland: Sheet 48, 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-99/11/3/2
Scope and Contents
Colour-coded geological map of eastern Perthshire and part of Fife, from a survey of or prior to 1883 by James Geikie, Henry Hyatt Howell, Benjamin Neeve Peach and John Young as part of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.
Dates:
1883
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Robert Broom, 12 June 1921
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/71
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Robert Broom telling Geikie that he has named a fossil after a colleague John Young. The fossil, Youngina, is possibly the common ancestor of lizards, crocodiles, dinosaurs, pterodactyls and birds. He describes his work progress in South Africa including a drawing of a gorgonopsid reptile skeleton.
Dates:
12 June 1921
Letters from Young, John to Charles Lyell, 23 November 1869 - 27 October 1872
File — Box Box 1.14: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/307
Scope and Contents
Written from the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, and from Young's home in Beith, Ayrshire. Summarised as 'Irish Elk of Crofthead and Kilmaurs Elephant', with press cuttings, 'Thanks for Students' Elements, Arctic Shells at Cartsdyke on the Clyde - Boulder Clay with local boulders'. Manuscript of articles on' Post Roman rise of land' and 'Upraised Strata in Sweden and Norway'. He receives a copy of Antiquity of Man, and will look at the section on the recent rise of the shores of the Clyde - the...
Dates:
23 November 1869 - 27 October 1872
Notebook No.257, September 1869- April 1870
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/257
Transcription note:
This dark green notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 10 September 1869 to 23 April 1870, and continues from the previous volume (256) starting in Scotland. Lyell travels from the Scottish Highlands, to Glasgow and Dumfries, then onto Devonshire, Suffolk, Somerset, and finishes back in Devon. Lyell attends meetings of various Societies, and writes about his correspondence with and the work of other notable researchers of the time. ...
Dates:
September 1869- April 1870
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- Professional Interaction 2
- Angus (Scotland) 1
- Ben Nevis Kilmallie (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Birds 1
- Caledonian Canal (Scotland) 1
- Campsie (Scotland) 1
- Crocodiles 1
- Dinosaurs 1
- Dumfries (Scotland) 1
- Examinations 1
- Fife Scotland 1
- Fossils 1
- Geological Mapping 1
- Geological Maps 1
- Geology, Publications 1
- Glasgow (Scotland) 1
- Glen Clova 1
- Gorgonopsid 1
- Kilmarnock (Scotland) 1
- Kilmaurs (Scotland) 1
- Laggan, Loch (Highland, Scotland) 1
- Lizards 1
- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to 1
- Perthshire Scotland 1
- Professional Links 1
- Pterodactyls 1
- Reptiles 1
- Roy, Glen (Highland, Scotland) 1
- Scotland -- Clyde River 1
- South Africa 1 + ∧ less
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