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

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/32
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan enclosing a document (not attached) and the offer of some sketches from Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen for use in 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'.

Dates: 30 August 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/33
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan telling him that Jessie Aitken Wilson's biography of her brother George Wilson has already gone to press. He urges Sir Archibald Geikie to proceed with sending the initial chapters of 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes' to press and arrange an engraver for the illustrations. He also encloses some material from Joseph Beete Jukes and tells him he has forwarded a parcel from Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen.

Dates: 24 September 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/34
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan forwarding some material from Joseph Beete Jukes with permission to use it [in 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes']. Alexander MacMillan agrees to the use of a portrait of [Edward Forbes] taken by Antoine Francois Jean Claudet as soon as he has heard from Emily M Yelverton.

Dates: 15 October 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/35
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan with editorial notes on 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes' and suggestions for sources of more detailed information for certain portions.

Dates: 24 October 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 31 October 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/37
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan telling him that John Van Voorst will send him copies of Edward Forbes introductory lectures at King's College. He tells him that the printer, Thomas Constable is unable to produce a reliable estimate until the final length of the book ['Memoirs of Edward Forbes'] is decided.

Dates: 31 October 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 10 November 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/38
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan asking for confirmation that he has received copies of Edward Forbes introductory lectures at King's College from John Van Voorst and urging him to liaise with Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay and Joseph Beete Jukes concerning which of Edward Forbes' own drawing to include in his biography.

Dates: 10 November 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/40
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan enclosing a letter from James Scott Bowerbank, confirming that he will lend [some manuscripts] and aspiring that they will be available by Saturday for a visit from Thomas Henry Huxley. There are also instructions from Jessie Aitken Wilson concerning the revision of portions [of 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'] written by her brother George Wilson.

Dates: 24 November 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 28 November 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/41
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan telling him that sketches have arrived from James Scott Bowerbank and that the final choice will be made with the help of Thomas Henry Huxley. He advises Geikie that he has been in further contact with Jessie Aitken Wilson who is concerned that her brother [George Wilson]'s portion [of 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'] should not be edited.

Dates: 28 November 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 07 December 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/42
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan telling him that he and Thomas Henry Huxley had met and chosen drawings by Edward Forbes [for 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'] and had decided that they should be inserted at the end of chapters or at suitable points in the text. MacMillan asks Geikie to arrange that space is left for the illustrations with the printer, Thomas Constable, and informs him that James Scott Bowerbank has further information concerning the origin of the...
Dates: 07 December 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 14 December 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/43
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan concerning the layout of 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes' and asking him to remind Thomas Henry Huxley that he had promised to write a forward to the book.

Dates: 14 December 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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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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