Young, John, 1835-1902 (Gillespie lecturer in geology and Keeper of the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow)
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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
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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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- Subject: Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to X