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Correspondence: from Duncan M Irvine to Alfred John Jukes-Browne, 1865-1899

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Identifier: Coll-74/12/7
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The Correspondence: from Duncan M Irvine to Alfred John Jukes-Browne sub-series consists of:


  1. 44 letters, alphabetically arranged (1865-1899)
Dates: 1865-1899

Correspondence from Joseph Beete Jukes and family, 1864-1871

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Identifier: Coll-74/12/8
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The Correspondence from Joseph Beete Jukes and family series consists of:


  1. 18 letters, chronologically arranged (1864-1871)
Dates: 1864-1871

Correspondence: John Edward Marr to C Neaves, 1852-1899

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Identifier: Coll-74/12/16
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The Correspondence: John Edward Marr to C Neaves sub-series consists of:


  1. 54 letters, alphabetically arranged (1852-1899)
Dates: 1852-1899

Correspondence: John Phillips to Frederick William Rudler, 1845-1901

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Identifier: Coll-74/12/18
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The Correspondence: John Phillips to Frederick William Rudler sub-series consists of:


  1. 40 letters, alphabetically arranged (1845-1901)
Dates: 1845-1901

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

Correspondence of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1827-1871

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/10
Scope and Contents The Correspondence of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison series consists of: letters from Murchison to his wife, 1854 and 1857 miscellaneous correspondence and notes (including letters to Sir Archibald Geikie) 1831-1871 correspondence relating to Murchison's dispute with Adam Sedgwick regarding Silurian classification 1838 and 1852-1866 assorted...
Dates: 1827-1871

Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Robert Harkness to Francis John Haverfield, 1872-1915

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/22
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Robert Harkness to Francis John Haverfield sub-series consists of:


  1. 18 letters, alphabetically arranged (1872-1915)
Dates: 1872-1915

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry Walter Bates, 31 October 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/31
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry Walter Bates telling Geikie that has sent him a copy of an address by Sir Henry Rawlinson (not attached) which will give him information concerning Sir Roderick Impey Murchison's connection with the Royal Geographical Society. He gives an additional reference and promises further information will follow.

Dates: 31 October 1874

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow, 18 May 1875

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/66
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow thanking him for his gift of a copy of his work Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart. : based on his journals and letters with notices of his scientific contemporaries and a sketch of the rise and growth of Palaeozoic geology in Britain, ( 1875) . He hopes that the publication will not reopen the historical controversy between Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and Adam Sedgwick.

Dates: 18 May 1875

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

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/55
Scope and Contents

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

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  • Names: Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) X
  • Names: Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) X

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Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist and professor of geology, University of Cambridge) 5
Geological Society of London (1807-:) 3
Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 3
Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist) 3
Beche, Sir Henry Thomas, 1796-1855 (English geologist) 2
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Bigsby, John Jeremiah, 1792-1881 (English physician, geologist, writer and Mayor of Newark upon Trent) 2
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 2
Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) 2
Geological Survey of Ireland 2
Jukes, 1811-1869 (director of the Geological Survey of Ireland) 2
Albert, 1819-1861 (Prince Consort of Queen Victoria) 1
Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 (naturalist, explorer and assistant secretary, Royal Geographical Society) 1
Bristow, Henry William, 1817-1889 (geologist) 1
Challenger Expedition (1872 -1876) 1
Clarke, Reverend William Branwhite, 1798-1878 (Anglican clergyman and geologist, New South Wales (Australia)) 1
Cooke, Mr, fl1867-1868 (illustrator) 1
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 1789-1864 (critic and antiquary) 1
Edinburgh Geological Society 1
Geological Survey of Queensland (1868-:) 1
Godwin-Austen, Robert Alfred Cloyne, 1808-1884 (foreign secretary of the Geological Society) 1
Government School of Mines and of Science as Applied to the Arts (1851-) 1
Hargraves, Edward Hammond, 1816-1891 (Australian gold mining pioneer) 1
Harkness, Robert, 1816-1878 (British geologist and zoologist | Professor of Geology, Queen's College Cork) 1
Hartley, Sir Charles Augustus, 1825-1915 (civil engineer) 1
Haverfield, Francis John, 1860-1919 (archaeologist) 1
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | astronomer) 1
Holland, Sir Henry, 1788-1873 (physician) 1
Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, 1769-1859 (German naturalist, geologist and explorer) 1
Irvine, Duncan M, fl1876-1898 (geologist) 1
Jack, Robert Logan, 1845-1921 (geologist) 1
James, Sir Henry, 1803-1877 (British Army Officer | Director-General of the Ordnance Survey) 1
Jeffreys, John Gwyn, 1809-1885 (British conchologist and malacologist) 1
Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa, 1840-1912 (medical practitioner, reformer and suffragette) 1
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871 (geographer) 1
Johnston, Alexander Keith, son of Alexander Keith Johnston (1804-1871) 1
Jones, Thomas Rupert, 1819-1911 (geologist and palaeontologist) 1
Jukes, Georgina Augusta, fl1871 (wife of Joseph Beete Jukes) 1
Jukes-Browne, Alfred John, 1851-1914 (palaeontologist and stratigrapher) 1
Lister, Sir Joseph, 1827-1912 (1st Baron Lister | British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery) 1
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 1
Marr, John Edward, 1857-1933 (geologist) 1
Meldola, Raphael, 1849-1915 (chemist) 1
Merivale, Herman, 1806-1874 (under secretary of state for India) 1
Miall, Louis Compton, 1842-1921 (naturalist) 1
Miers, Sir Henry Alexander, 1858-1942 (mineralogist and administrator) 1
Miller, Hugh, 1802-1856 (man of letters and geologist) 1
Miller, Hugh, son of Hugh Miller (1802-1856) 1
Miller, Lydia Falconer, wife of Hugh Miller (1802-1856) 1
Milne, John, 1850-1913 (mining engineer and seismologist) 1
Moigno, François Napoléon Marie, 1804-1884 (physicist and author) 1
Morris, John, 1810-1886 (English geologist) 1
Murchison, Charlotte, 1788-1869 (nee Hougin, geologist, wife of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison) 1
Murchison, JH, fl1854 1
Murray, James Augustus Henry, 1837-1915 (lexicographer) 1
Murray, Andrew, 1812-1878 (naturalist) 1
Murray, John, Sir, 1841-1914 (Oceanographer and Naturalist) 1
Ordnance Survey (1790-:) 1
Paterson, Robert, 1802-1872 (president, Natural History Society of Belfast) 1
Philips, John, 1800-1874 (geologist) 1
Phillips, John Arthur, 1822-1887 (geologist and metallurgist) 1
Poulton, Sir Edward Bagnall, 1856-1943 (zoologist) 1
Powrie, James, 1819-1895 (geologist) 1
Prestwich, Sir Joseph, 1812-1896 (British geologist and businessman, Fellow of the Royal Society) 1
Pumpelly, Raphael, 1837-1923 (American geologist) 1
Rae, John, 1813-1893 (explorer) 1
Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke, 1810-1895 (diplomat and Assyriologist) 1
Reeks, Trenham, fl1869-1871 (Curator of the Museum of Practical Geology) 1
Reid, Clement, 1853-1916 (geologist) 1
Roscoe, Sir Henry Enfield, 1833-1915 (professor of chemistry, Owens College, Manchester) 1
Rose, Alexander (geologist) 1
Royal Geographical Society (1830-:) 1
Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (c1771-:) 1
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 1
Rudler, Frederick William, 1840-1914 (professor of geology and geography, University of Aberystwyth) 1
Salter, John William, 1820-1869 (palaeontologist, Geological Survey of Great Britain) 1
Scott, Robert Henry, Robert Henry 1833-1916 (meteorologist) 1
Strzelecki, Count Paul Edmund, 1797-1879 (Polish nobleman and geologist) 1
The Athenaeum (1822-:) 1
Thompson, William, 1805-1852 (naturalist) 1
University College London (1826-:) 1
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1
University of Oxford, Magdalen College (1448-:) (university college) 1
Voorst, John Van, fl1863 (publisher) 1
Wilson, George, 1818-1859 (regius professor of technology, University of Edinburgh) 1
Wilson, Jessie Aitken, fl.1860 (fiction writer, sister of George Wilson, wife of James Sime) 1
Yelverton, Emily M, fl1860 (widow of Edward Forbes) 1
Yorkshire College of Science (1874-c1887) 1
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