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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 08 January 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/45
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan enclosing a letter from John Van Voorst (attached) refusing permission to use some wood cuts [in 'Memoir of Edward Forbes'], 1861, and requesting sight of Mrs. Yelverton's "things".

Dates: 08 January 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 06 March 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/46
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan inviting him to dinner and commenting on the Yelverton bigamy case.

Dates: 06 March 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 19 June 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/47
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan lamenting the slow sales of his book 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes' and suggesting this is due to the popularity of "the Gorilla book", [3rd edition Charles Robert Darwin's Origin of the Species].

Dates: 19 June 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from David Forbes, 29 July 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/11
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Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from David Forbes with criticism and spelling corrections for part of his book Memoir of Edward Forbes, ( 1861) .

Dates: 29 July 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Edmonston and Douglas, 19 June 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/9
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Edmonston and Douglas handing him a list of persons to whom a presentation copy of Memoir of Edward Forbes, ( 1861) have been sent.

Dates: 19 June 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George Edward Day, 02 July 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/8
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George Edward Day thanking him for a copy of Memoir of Edward Forbes, ( 1861) and suggesting some corrections, should a second edition be published.

Dates: 02 July 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow, 09 June 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/63
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow thanking Geikie for his gift of a copy of Memoir of Edward Forbes, FRS, ( 1861) and praising the content.

Dates: 09 June 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from James Brotherstone Laughton, 02 July 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/24
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from James Brotherstone Laughton introducing himself as the only remaining member of the Oineromathic Club, suggesting the publication of some poems by Edward Forbes, and offering some for this purpose.

Dates: 02 July 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 24 January 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/55
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson concerning the ownership of letters which her late brother George Wilson had borrowed as background material for the 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'. She suggests writing to the owners to let them know that she has transferred them to Sir Archibald Geikie, and writes a detailed action list. She discusses the health of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay and her dislike of Emily M Yelverton.

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

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 26 January 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/56
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson telling him that she has written to various people concerning the continued use of letters which were lent for the compilation of the 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'. She informs him of the death of Captain Graves and encloses papers from Peter Colin Campbell (not attached).

Dates: 26 January 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Names
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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