Young, John, 1835-1902 (Gillespie lecturer in geology and Keeper of the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow)
Person
Found in 4 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
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- Professional Interaction 2
- Birds 1
- Crocodiles 1
- Dinosaurs 1
- Examinations 1
- Fife Scotland 1
- Fossils 1
- Geological Mapping 1
- Geological Maps 1
- Geology, Publications 1
- Gorgonopsid 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
- South Africa 1 + ∧ less
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