Showing Records: 1 - 10 of 11
5 Lectures on geology, c1879
Notes and text for five lectures on geology. Sir Archibald Geikie placed civilisation, religion and mythology in the context of geological development, looking at geolgical formations and the processes and materials involved in their creation.
Booklet: 'Geographical Evolution', 1879
Printed booklet by Sir Archibald Geikie, entitled 'Geographical Evolution' and containing the text of a lecture given to the Royal Geographical Society on 24 March 1879 and taken from 'Proceedings of the Royal Society and Monthly Record of Geography', July 1879.
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Scandanavian and Danish geologists, 1876-1906
The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Scandanavian and Danish geologists sub-series includes letters from:
- Waldemar Christofer Brögger (1889-1902)
- Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (1882-1904)
- Hans Henrik Reusch (1880-1906)
- Jakob Johannes Sederholm (1899-1906)
- Thorvaldur Thoroddsen (1896-1906)
Correspondence: Sir Arthur William Rücker to James Smith, 1863-1900
The Correspondence: Sir Arthur William Rücker to James Smith sub-series consists of:
- 34 letters, alphabetically arranged (1863/1900)
Correspondence: Sir John Stuart Keltie to Herbert Kynaston, 1867-1916
The Correspondence: Sir John Stuart Keltie to Herbert Kynaston sub-series consists of:
- 24 letters, alphabetically arranged (1867-1916)
Correspondence: WA Herdman to Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1872-1900
The Correspondence: WA Herdman to Joseph Dalton Hooker sub-series consists of:
- 33 letters, alphabetically arranged (1872-1900)
Lecture on 'The Materials of the Land', c1879
Lecture on the materials the land is composed of and their origins, including types of rocks and volcanic activity.
Lecture on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', 1886
Notes for 4 lectures on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', given to the Royal Institution in 1886. Sir Archibald Geikie looked at the emergence of types of geological formations against a geological timeframe and how they have been affected by various processes, especially the action of volcanoes and materials produced by them, within the natural world. He used examples from numerous locations from different parts of the British Isles.
Lecture text: 'Lecture I', c1879
Text of lecture looking at geological themes, such as landscape, physical geography, the formation of continents, types of rock and volcanic activity, and relating them to such subjects as the relationship between man and nature, mythology, history and religion.
Lectures on American geological history, c1879
Notes and text for seven lectures looking at the geological history of the American continent, looking at specific locations therein, based partly on results from American survey work. These locations were related to to other places around the world, particularly in Britain and Europe. A variety of geological formations were looked at, including that of the continent itself, considering the materials which make them up and the geological timeframe.