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Letter to Alexander MacMillan from Joseph Beete Jukes, 20 September 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/16
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Letter to Alexander MacMillan from Joseph Beete Jukes explaining that he has enclosed an example of the sort of material he could submit for the biography of Edward Forbes. He lists other possible topics and asks for confirmation that they will be required before spending time on them.

Dates: 20 September 1860

Letter to [Alexander MacMillan] from Joseph Beete Jukes, 14 October 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/17
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Letter to [Alexander MacMillan] from Joseph Beete Jukes recommending which photograph of Edward Forbes to use in the biography, which parts of the manuscript he will be forwarding to use, and giving some anecdotes from his life.

Dates: 14 October 1860

Letter to Alexander MacMillan from William James Linton, c1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/44
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Letter to Alexander MacMillan from William James Linton with suggestions for the layout of type around the drawings [in 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'].

Dates: c1860

Letter to George Wilson from Jane Forbes, 18 August 1855

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/12
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Letter to George Wilson from Jane Forbes refuting that her son was disinterested in his roots on the Isle of Man.

Dates: 18 August 1855

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 24 January 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/25
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan concerning the ownership of letters in Sir Archibald Geikie's possession, and a method of obtaining implicit permission for their retention.

Dates: 24 January 1860

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 15 February 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/26
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan concerning a strategy suggested by Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay and Thomas Henry Huxley for smoothing over a disagreement with Joseph Beete Jukes and Emily M Yelverton concerning the proposed Memoir of Edward Forbes, FRS, ( 1861).

Dates: 15 February 1860

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 16 February 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/27
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan telling him that he will publish the proposed biography of Edward Forbes despite possible opposition from Joseph Beete Jukes and Emily M Yelverton.

Dates: 16 February 1860

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 17 February 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/28
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan telling him that Joseph Beete Jukes does not oppose his proposed 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes', but rather is happy to assist by providing information and editorial help and smoothing the way with Emily M Yelverton.

Dates: 17 February 1860

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 25 February 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/29
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan with comment on the first 4 chapters of his Memoirs of Edward Forbes, ( 1861) and advice for future chapters. He suggests printing the book in Edinburgh. He comments that he does not expect any further opposition to the book fom Emily M Yelverton and has had further endorsements for the book from Thomas Henry Huxley and Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen.

Dates: 25 February 1860

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 30 July 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/31
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan asking him to send a copy of his ['Memoirs of Edward Forbes'], to date, to the printer Thomas Constable to enable them to make an estimate. He reports that he is leaving for Arran that Wednesday and will make a trip to Edinburgh if required.

Dates: 30 July 1860

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Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 57
MacMillan, Alexander, 1815-1896 (publisher) 28
Jukes, 1811-1869 (director of the Geological Survey of Ireland) 18
Yelverton, Emily M, fl1860 (widow of Edward Forbes) 15
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 12
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Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist) 12
Wilson, Jessie Aitken, fl.1860 (fiction writer, sister of George Wilson, wife of James Sime) 10
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 8
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (man of science) 7
Wilson, George, 1818-1859 (regius professor of technology, University of Edinburgh) 7
Godwin-Austen, Robert Alfred Cloyne, 1808-1884 (foreign secretary of the Geological Society) 6
Voorst, John Van, fl1863 (publisher) 6
Falconer, Hugh, 1808-1865 (palaeontologist and botanist) 5
Government School of Mines and of Science as Applied to the Arts (1851-) 5
Thomas Constable (1834-1850) 5
Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 (English biologist) 4
Paterson, Robert, 1802-1872 (president, Natural History Society of Belfast) 4
Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854 (British naturalist, conchologist and artist) 4
Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 (geologist and distiller) 3
Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 3
Agassiz, Jean Louis, 1807-1873 (Swiss-American naturalist and professor of natural history) 2
Archiac, Adolphe d', 1802-1868 (Vicomte d'Archiac | French geologist and palaeontologist) 2
Austed, DT (DT) 2
Baily, William Hellier, 1819-1888 (geologist and palaeontologist) 2
Balfour, John Hutton, 1808-1884 (professor of botany, University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh) 2
Bunbury, Sir Charles James Fox, 1809-1886 (8th Baronet of Barton Hall, Sussex (England) | English naturalist) 2
Campbell, Peter Colin, 1810-1876 (first principal, University of Aberdeen) 2
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 (American Unitarian preacher and theologian) 2
Day, George Edward, 1815-1872 (professor of anatomy and medicine, University of St. Andrews) 2
Edmonston & Douglas (fl1861) 2
Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 2
Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, 1769-1859 (German naturalist, geologist and explorer) 2
Linton, William James, 1812-1898 (engraver, poet and political reformer) 2
Lonsdale, William , 1794-1871 (Geologist and Paleontologist) 2
Lonsdale, William L, 1794-1871 (English geologist and palaeontologist) 2
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 2
Orbigny, Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d', 1802-1857 (French naturalist) 2
Pusey, Edward Bouverie, 1800-1882 (Anglican Cleric, Professor of Hebrew, Oxford) 2
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 2
Story, Joseph, 1779-1845 (Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States) 2
Tennant, James, 1808-1881 (mineralogist) 2
Waterhouse, George Robert, 1810-1888 (naturalist) 2
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 (Lawyer and Statesman) 2
Wood, Searles Valentine, 1830-1884 (geologist) 2
Airy, Sir George Biddell, 1801-1892 (Astronomer Royal, 1835-1881) 1
Anthony, John Gould, 1804-1877 (American naturalist, mollusks) 1
Bache, Alexander Dallas, 1806-1867 (Physicist, Scientist and Surveyor) 1
Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 (American historian, statesman and Democratic politician) 1
Barrande, Joachim, 1799-1883 (Geologist and Paleontologist) 1
Bayfield, Henry Wolsey, Captain, 1795-1885 (British naval officer and surveyor) 1
Beche, Sir Henry Thomas, 1796-1855 (English geologist) 1
Bennett, John Hughes, 1812-1875 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 1
Binney, Edward William, 1812­-1881 (geologist and founder Manchester Geological Society) 1
Bravard, Auguste, 1803 - 1861 (Engineer and Palaeontologist) 1
Bristow, Henry William, 1817-1889 (geologist) 1
Brown, Robert, 1773-1858 (Botanist and paleobotanist) 1
Bunsen, Christian Charles Josias von, 1791-1860 (German diplomat and scholar) 1
Byron, Anne Isabella Noel, Baroness, 1792-1860 1
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (historian, essayist and philosopher) 1
Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885. (English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist) 1
Caswall, Edward, 1814-1878 (English clergyman and hymn writer) 1
Cautley, Proby Thomas, 1802-1871 (English engineer and palaeontologist) 1
Clark, Sir James, 1788-1870 (court physician) 1
Claudet, 1797-1867 (photographer) 1
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (America attorney and statemen) 1
Cogswell, Joseph, 1786-1871 (American librarian, bibliographer and educator) 1
Cotton, John , 1585-1652 (English clergyman, theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) 1
Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 (American geologist, mineralogist, and naturalist) 1
Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle, 1795-1867 (English chemist, botanist, and geologist) 1
Davis, John, 1787-1854 (American lawyer, businessman and politician ) 1
De la Beche, Thomas, 1796-1855 (English geologist, palaeontologist) 1
Dujardin, Felix, 1801-1860 (French biologist) 1
Elie de Beaumont, Leonce, 1798-1874 (French geologist) 1
Empson, William, 1791-1852 (English barrister, professor and journalist) 1
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (American politician, Unitarian pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator) 1
Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867 (English scientist) 1
Forbes, David, 1828-1876 (secretary to the Geological Society) 1
Forbes, Jane (mother of Edward Forbes) 1
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 ( Genevan–American politician, diplomat, ethnologist and linguist.) 1
Gerville, Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de, 1769-1853 (French antiquarian, historian, naturalist) 1
Gilbert, Ashurst Turner, 1786-1870 (English churchman, Principal of Brasenose College, and bishop of Chichester.) 1
Gordon-Lennox, Charles Henry, 6th Duke of Richmond and 1st Duke of Gordon 1
Grey, Charles Edward, Sir, 1785-1865 (English judge and colonial governor) 1
Grey-Egerton, Philip De Malpas, 1806-1881 (palaeontologist) 1
Hall, James (Sir James Hall of Dunglass), 1761-1832 (Scottish geologist and geophysicist | 4th Baronet) 1
Hall, James, 1811-1898 (American geologist and paleontologist) 1
Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859 (English historian) 1
Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864 (American attorney, politician and planter) 1
Hearne, Samuel, 1745-1792 (English explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist) 1
Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 (American scientist, Secretary of the Smithsonian) 1
Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 (American scientist, educator and minister) 1
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 (English painter, satirist, and writer) 1
Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 (British botanist, explorer | Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew) 1
Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 (professor of botany, University of Glasgow) 1
Horner, Joanna Baillie, b 1823 (Writer) 1
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (7th President of the United States) 1
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 1
Kean, Charles, 1811-1868 (British actor) 1
Laughton, James Brotherstone (James Brotherstone) 1
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