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Correspondence: GA Le Bel to G De Lorenzo, 1869-1914

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Identifier: Coll-74/12/12
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence: Albert Auguste de Lapparent to Charles Lapworth sub-series consists of:


  1. 36 letters, alphabetically arranged (1869-1914)
Dates: 1869-1914

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H), 1843-1921

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) series consists of:


  1. 22 sub-series, mostly alphabetically arranged by correspondant
Dates: 1843-1921

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: American geologists, 1878-1907

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Identifier: Coll-74/13/1
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: American geologists sub-series consists of:


  1. 67 letters and postcards, alphabetically arranged (1878-1907).
Dates: 1878-1907

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Belgian geologists, 1876-1899

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Identifier: Coll-74/13/3
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Belgian geologists sub-series consists of:


  1. letters concerning such items as the 1899 Belgian Geological Society annual general meeting, the desire for cooperation with colleagues in Britain and the translation of Geikie's work into French.
Dates: 1876-1899

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (H-S), 1839-1916

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

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (H-S) series consists of:


  1. 19 sub-series, largely alphabetically arranged by correspondent.
Dates: 1839-1916

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

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George Edward Simonds Boulger, 19 November 1889

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/61
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George Edward Simonds Boulger asking permission to use a copy of Geikie's sketch of the Old Man of Hoy in a forthcoming article on rock pinnacles.

Dates: 19 November 1889

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from HF Blanford, 21 January 1890

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/55
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from HF Blanford telling Geikie that he will bring the illustrations for the Geography [book] to London one day that week. He says that there will be 30 altogether, although some have been used in Blanford's previous publications.

Dates: 21 January 1890

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour, 05 July 1879

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/10
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 05 July 1879

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour, 14 July 1879

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

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.

Dates: 14 July 1879

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Names
Ball, Sir Robert Stawell, 1840-1913 (astronomer and mathematician) 5
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 3
Balfour, John Hutton, 1808-1884 (professor of botany, University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh) 2
Bigsby, John Jeremiah, 1792-1881 (English physician, geologist, writer and Mayor of Newark upon Trent) 2
Lesley, J Peter, 1819-1903 (American geologist) 2
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MacMillan Publishers Ltd (1843-:) 2
Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-:) 2
Adam and Charles Black (1815-:) (Publishers) 1
Albert, 1819-1861 (Prince Consort of Queen Victoria) 1
American Institute of Mining Engineers (1871-:) 1
Ames, Mary L, fl1904 (daughter of J Peter Lesley and cousin of Benjamin Smith Lyman) 1
Ami, Henry Marc, 1858-1931 (Canadian scientist) 1
Bascom, Florence, 1862-1945 (American geologist) 1
Becker, George Ferdinand, 1847-1919 (American geologist) 1
Belgian Geological Society 1
Bell, Robert, 1841-1917 (Director of the Geological Survey of Canada) 1
Blanford, Henry Francis, 1834-1893 (meteorologist and palaeontologist) 1
Boulger, George Edward Simonds, 1853-1922 (botanist and professor, City of London College) 1
Bramwell, Sir Frederick Joseph, 1818-1903 (engineer) 1
Clark, William Bullock, 1860-1917 (American geologist) 1
Clarke, John Mason, 1857-1925 (American geologist) 1
Clarke, Reverend William Branwhite, 1798-1878 (Anglican clergyman and geologist, New South Wales (Australia)) 1
Clay, Sons and Taylor (fl1881) 1
Davis, William Morris, 1850-1934 (American geographer and geologist) 1
Dollo, Louis, 1857-1931 (Belgian palaeontologist) 1
Dupont, 1841-1911 (Belgian geologist) 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 Canada (1842-:) 1
Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843-1918 (American geologist) 1
Gordon-Lennox, Charles Henry, 6th Duke of Richmond and 1st Duke of Gordon 1
Hague, Arnold, 1840-1917 (American geologist) 1
Hargraves, Edward Hammond, 1816-1891 (Australian gold mining pioneer) 1
Hayden, Ferdinand Vandiveer, 1829-1887 (American geologist) 1
Heddle, Matthew Forster, 1828-1897 (professor of chemistry, University of St Andrews) 1
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | astronomer) 1
Hobbs, William Herbert, 1864-1952 (American geologist) 1
Holland, Sir Henry, 1788-1873 (physician) 1
Hughes, Thomas, author of Tom Brown's Schooldays 1
Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, 1769-1859 (German naturalist, geologist and explorer) 1
International Geodetic Association (fl1904) 1
Johns Hopkins University (1876-:) 1
Kelland, Philip, 1808-1879 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 1
Le Bel, GA, fl1893 (French chemist) 1
Le Conte, Joseph, 1823-1901 (American physiologist and geologist) 1
Lebour, George Alexander Louis, 1847-1918 (geologist and curator of the Natural History Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 1
Lennox, Arthur, fl1869-1875 (Inspector of Science and Art Schools) 1
Lesley, Susan Inches, 1823-: (wife of J Peter Lesley) 1
Lewis, Henry Carvill, 1853-1888 (American geologist and educator) 1
Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman, 1836-1920 (astronomer) 1
Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 (American geologist and mining engineer) 1
MacMillan, Alexander, 1815-1896 (publisher) 1
Maryland Geological Survey (1896-:) 1
Merivale, Herman, 1806-1874 (under secretary of state for India) 1
Murchison, Charlotte, 1788-1869 (nee Hougin, geologist, wife of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison) 1
Murchison, JH, fl1854 1
Nature 1
Price, WJA, fl1886 (Scranton (Pennsylvania, United States)) 1
Privy Council on Education (1839-1899) 1
Renard, 1842-1903 (Belgian geologist) 1
Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science (fl1870-1875) 1
Royal Institution of Great Britain (1799-:) 1
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 1
Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvannia (1874-1899) 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist and professor of geology, University of Cambridge) 1
Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906 (American geologist) 1
South Kensington Museum (1857-1909) 1
Stevenson, John James, 1841-1924 (American geologist) 1
The Times (c1787-:) 1
Thomson, Sir William, 1824-1907 (1st Baron Kelvin | mathematical physicist and Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow 1846-1899) 1
Thoroddsen, Thorvaldur, 1855-1921 (Icelandic naturalist) 1
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Walcott, Charles Doolittle, 1850-1927 (American geologist) 1
Wallop, Newton, 1856-1917 (6th Earl of Portsmouth) 1
Washington, Henry Stephens, 1867-1934 (American petrologist and geologist) 1
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