University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown sub-series consists of:

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George James Allman telling him that his paper on the Trap Rocks of Scotland will be accepted for the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh once he has undertaken the additions which he indicated he intends to make.

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George James Allman telling him that his paper on the Trap Rocks of Scotland is of sufficient quality to publish in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh without the additions he was planning, if that is what he wishes.

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour asking if he can procure an obituary for Professor Robert Harkness for the Royal Society [of Edinburgh]. He arranges to talk about Geikie's paper on metamorphic rocks when they meet.

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour telling him that he has been awarded the Macdougall-Brisbane prize by the Royal Society [of Edinburgh] for his memoir on the old red sandstone of western Europe which was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society [of Edinburgh] in 1877-1878. The prize will be announced at the Society's meeting on the 07 July 1879 and awarded at the year's concluding meeting on 21 July 1879.

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour telling him that the addresses by Professors Philp Kelland and Matthew Forster Heddle are currently with Neill and Co but could be borrowed from them so long as they are returned to Balfour and copies made available for the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour telling Geikie that the council [of the Royal Society of Edinburgh] has approved the requested sum of £53 and he can engage the lithographer.