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Archibald Geikie, correpondence

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1815/2
Scope and Contents Letters to Sir Archibald Geike from: Hicks, Henry (25 Oct. 1887); Hooker, Joseph Dalton (Sir) (May 1890); Horne, John (5 Jun. 1898); Huxley, Thomas Henry (17 May 1862); Kidston, Robert (3 Aug. 1883); Lapworth, Charles (Sir) (16 Nov. 1898); Lyell, Charles (Sir) (31 Mar. 1860); Marcou, Jules (5 Jan. 1871); Marcon, Jules (30 Apr. 1878); Milne, John (15 Aug. 1895); Peach, Benjamin Neve (19 Oct. 1898); Prestwich, Joseph (Sir) (15 May 1892?); Scrope, G. Poulett (1866?); Sorby, Henry...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1840s-1940s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence from Gabriell Auguste Daubrée, 1874-1896

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/15
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence from Gabriell Auguste Daubrée sub-series consists of:


  1. 22 letters, chronologically arranged (1874-1896)
Dates: 1874-1896
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence: Joseph Wilson Lowry to HR Mill, 1839-1909

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/14
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence: Joseph Wilson Lowry to HR Mill sub-series consists of:


  1. 35 letters, alphabetically arranged (1839-1909)
Dates: 1839-1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie A-M, late 19th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/15
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie A-M series consists of:


  1. letters alphabetically arranged by sender, including those from Charles Robert Darwin, the Geological Society, Joseph Lister, Sir Charles Lyell and Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
  2. postcards
  3. obituaries
Dates: late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Alexander Henry Green to Edward Townley Hardman, 1855-1901

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/20
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Alexander Henry Green to Edward Townley Hardman sub-series consists of:


  1. 32 letters, alphabetically arranged (1855-1901)
  2. 2 letters from Valentine Ball (1894)
Dates: 1855-1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Journal article authored by Geikie, Prof. Archibald, on 'Metamorphic and Volcanic Actions', 18 December 1873

 File — Box Box 3.2: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/44
Scope and Contents

Complimentary copy of journal article read by Geikie on metamorphic and volcanic actions, to the Edinburgh Geological Society, inscribed 'Sir Charles Lyell Bart with A Geikie's Compliments'.

Dates: 18 December 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, 27 May 1861

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/49
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay with editorial comments about the inclusion of sensitive material concerning the School of Mines, the Museum of Economic Geology and the Geological Survey of Great Britain in his 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'.

Dates: 27 May 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters from Geikie, Archibald to Charles Lyell, 24 March 1860 - 13 July 1863

 File — Box Box 1.5: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/89
Scope and Contents

Letters are summarised by Lyell as:
1) Geikie on Elephants in Ayrshire & Falkirk 23 March 1860 and on Coast-ice in Scotland
2) Geikie Crag & talc Valley not parallel to strike of bed dated 5th April, Dunfermline
3) Geikie on foot-print beds may be /Old/ Red - Map [in folder] of land at close of Glacial period - 2000 ft depression, June 17 1860, Dumfries
4) Geikie on Scotch erratics
6) Geikie on Roman pottery in raised beach 25 feet[?] high, 6th June 1861.

Dates: 24 March 1860 - 13 July 1863
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) X
  • Names: Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) X

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Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 2
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (man of science) 2
Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist) 2
Ball, Valentine, fl1894 (Director of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin (Ireland)) 1
Clark, Sir James, 1788-1870 (court physician) 1
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Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 1
Daubrée, Gabriel Auguste, 1814-1896 (French geochemist) 1
Dublin Science and Art Museum (1878-:) 1
Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) 1
Geological Society of London (1807-:) 1
Geological Survey of Ireland 1
Government School of Mines and of Science as Applied to the Arts (1851-) 1
Green, Alexander Henry, 1832-1906 (geologist) 1
Gregory, John Walter, 1864-1932 (professor of geology, University of Glasgow) 1
Griffith, Sir Richard John, 1784-1878 (geologist and civil engineer) 1
Guppy, Henry Brougham, 1854-1926 (botanist) 1
Hardman, Edward Townley, 1845-1887 (geologist) 1
Hicks, Henry, 1837-1899 (Welsh geologist and surgeon) 1
Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 (British botanist, explorer | Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew) 1
Horne, John, 1848-1928 (geologist) 1
Kidston, Robert, 1852-1924 (honorary palaeobotanist to the British Geological Survey) 1
Lapworth, Charles, 1842-1920 (geologist) 1
Lister, Sir Joseph, 1827-1912 (1st Baron Lister | British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery) 1
Lonsdale, William L, 1794-1871 (English geologist and palaeontologist) 1
Lowry, Joseph Wilson, 1803-1879 (engraver to the British Geological Survey) 1
Lubbock, Sir Joseph Wilson, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avesbury (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 1
Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell, 1850-1926 1
Maclaren, Charles, 1782-1866 (first editor of the Scotsman) 1
Mallet, Robert, 1810-1881 (civil engineer and scientific investigator) 1
Marcou, Jules, 1824 – 1898 (French-Swiss-American geologist) 1
McHenry, Alexander, fl1881-1894 (worked on the Geological Survey of Ireland) 1
Milne, John, 1850-1913 (mining engineer and seismologist) 1
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 1
Museum of Economic Geology (1841-) 1
Peach, Benjamin Neeve, 1842-1926 (geologist) 1
Playfair, Sir Lyon, 1818-1898 (1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews) 1
Prestwich, Sir Joseph, 1812-1896 (British geologist and businessman, Fellow of the Royal Society) 1
Royal Dublin Society (1820-:) 1
Scotsman (1817-:) 1
Scrope, George Julius Poulett, 1797-1876 (geologist and political economist) 1
Société géologique de France (1830-:) (scientific society) 1
Sorby, Henry Clifton, 1826-1908 (geologist) 1
Teall, Jethro Justinian, 1849-1924 (geologist) 1
Thomson, Sir William, 1824-1907 (1st Baron Kelvin | mathematical physicist and Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow 1846-1899) 1
Traquair, Ramsay Heatley, 1840-1912 (geologist and palaeontologist) 1
University of Melbourne (1855-:) 1
University of Oxford (c1096-:) 1
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 (naturalist) 1
Yorkshire College of Science (1874-c1887) 1
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