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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 30 January 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/57
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson enclosing a letter from Emily M Yelverton (not attached) which places obstacles in the way of the completion of 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'. A discussion follows concerning the intellectual ownership of personal letters which are to be used as source material and possible methods of pacifying Emily M Yelverton.

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

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 03 August 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/58
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson enclosing part of her brother George Wilson's unfinished 'Memoir of Edward Forbes' (not attached). She suggests some people who might be able to provide information concerning the Edward Forbes' period of residence in Paris.

Dates: 03 August 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 04 December 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/59
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson apologising for earlier abrupt behaviour due to a misunderstanding concerning mistakes made by the printer Thomas Constable [when printing 'Memoir of Edward Forbes'].

Dates: 04 December 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from John Hughes Bennett, 19 October 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/5
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Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from John Hughes Bennett detailing Edward Forbes' periods of study in Paris.

Dates: 19 October 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from Joseph Beete Jukes, 22 February 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/14
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Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from Joseph Beete Jukes offering to help with the proposed biography of Edward Forbes and apologising for the dirty paper he has used.

Dates: 22 February 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from Joseph Beete Jukes, 01 May 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/15
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Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from Joseph Beete Jukes telling him that he was not acquainted with Edward Forbes between 1839 and 1846 and so will be unable to help with research for that period. He offers post 1846 anecdotes and urges that he be sent reminders for these.

Dates: 01 May 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Joseph Beete Jukes, 23 October 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/18
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Joseph Beete Jukes explaining that pressure of work completing explanantions to Irish geological maps means he cannot help further with information on Edward Forbes. He suggests a meeting in Edinburgh on 01 November 1860 as he will be there giving evidence at a trial concerning Burghead coal.

Dates: 23 October 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Joseph Beete Jukes, 09 January 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/19
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Joseph Beete Jukes suggesting that he comes to Ireland to see some items and sketchs made by Edward Forbes and discuss the gaps in the biography he is preparing with Emily M Yelverton.

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

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Joseph Beete Jukes, 26 January 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/20
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Joseph Beete Jukes detailing his current duties as an explanation for not providing information for the biography of Edward Forbes earlier. He asks for details of which periods are missing from the research so that letters from this period can be forwarded. He discusses the Yelverton bigamy trial.

Dates: 26 January 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Joseph Beete Jukes, 20 March 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/21
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Joseph Beete Jukes asking him to send a copy of a manuscript to Emily M Yelverton's solicitor.

Dates: 20 March 1861
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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