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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Richard Baron, 15 August 1884

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/22
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Richard Baron giving Geikie a precis of the geological structure of the island of Madagascar, where he is a missionary. He asks Geikie if he would be able to identify some rock samples for him if he sent them to London, and offers to send fossils and specimens in return. He reports that gold has recently been found on the island.

Dates: 15 August 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Richard Baron, 24 June 1886

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/23
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Richard Baron in which he reminds Geikie that he had offered to make thin sections to identify rock samples which he had sent him. He expresses concern that he has had no response to the paper and rock specimens which he sent, especially as he has had a response concerning some plant specimens which he sent to Kew at the same time. He reports that a Swiss government geologist will shortly arrive in Madagascar and that gold has been found in 8 or 9...
Dates: 24 June 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Thomas Forster Brown, 01 July 1898

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/72
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Thomas Forster Brown of the firm Forster Brown and Rees, Mining and Civil Engineers requesting a reference or some assistance to help him ascertain whether gold or silver is mined on Islay, the annual value of such and the composition of other minerals recovered.

Dates: 01 July 1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Thomas Forster Brown, 09 July 1898

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/73
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Thomas Forster Brown thanking him for arranging for a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain staff to investigate his request concerning gold and silver mining on Islay.

Dates: 09 July 1898
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
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Names
Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 3
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 3
Baron, Richard, 1847-1907 (clergyman, botanist and missionary, London Missionary Society) 2
Forster Brown, Thomas, fl1898-1903 (civil engineer) 2
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist and professor of geology, University of Cambridge) 2
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Albert, 1819-1861 (Prince Consort of Queen Victoria) 1
Beche, Sir Henry Thomas, 1796-1855 (English geologist) 1
Clarke, Reverend William Branwhite, 1798-1878 (Anglican clergyman and geologist, New South Wales (Australia)) 1
Geological Society of London (1807-:) 1
Geological Survey of Queensland (1868-:) 1
Hargraves, Edward Hammond, 1816-1891 (Australian gold mining pioneer) 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-Browne, Alfred John, 1851-1914 (palaeontologist and stratigrapher) 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
Ordnance Survey (1790-:) 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
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
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
Strzelecki, Count Paul Edmund, 1797-1879 (Polish nobleman and geologist) 1
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1
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