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Answers to queries, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-74/5/5

Scope and Contents

Answers to queries made by Sir Archibald Geikie on the form of clouds, dust wirlwinds, heights of British lakes, Petermann's drawings of vertical distribution of plants and the sea bed between Britain and Norway.

Dates: late 19th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence from Karl August Lossen, 1882-1889

Sub-Series

Identifier: Coll-74/12/13

Scope and Contents

The Correspondence from sub-series consists of:

5 letters, chronologically arranged (1882-1889)

Dates: 1882-1889

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lecture notes, 1884-1886

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Identifier: Coll-74/7

Scope and Contents

The Lecture notes series consists of:

Notes and printed abstracts.

Dates: 1884-1886

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lecture notes, late 19th century

Series

Identifier: Coll-74/9

Scope and Contents

The Lecture notes series consists of:

Notes for lectures on British geology.

Dates: late 19th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lecture on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', 1886

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Identifier: Coll-74/7/2

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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.

Dates: 1886

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 31 October 1883

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/15

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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton expressing regret that he was unable to vacation in Germany and France during the month of October as he had anticipated. He thanks Geikie for his papers on the pre-cambrian, reports that American geologists are also considering this problem and surmises that American exposures of pre-cambrian fosseliferous rocks are more extensive than those in Britain.

Dates: 31 October 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 21 July 1884

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/16

Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton telling him that he is undertaking field work in New Mexico. He is concentrating on the plateau country aided by good topographic maps of the region. He tells Geikie that there are landforms and cliffs similar to those in Utah and Arizona with exposures of Triassic, Permain and Cretaceous strata. These are overlain with evidence of volcanic activity, ancient basalt of 50-200 feet depth on the plateau. Young basalt, in vast lava...

Dates: 21 July 1884

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Captain Clarence Edward Dutton, 05 March 1880

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/1

Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton asking him to suggest 100 possible British and Irish recipients for gratuitous copies of his monograph on the volcanic geology of Utah: Report on the Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah, with Atlas, ( 1880) Includes a pencil list of possible recipients.

Dates: 05 March 1880

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes for lectures given in Dublin, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-74/9/2

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Notes for 2 lectures given in Dublin. Sir Archibald Geikie looked at the evolution of scenery around the British Isles. He looked particularly at those elements formed by erosion, such as river valleys, using many locations as examples. He also looked at the formation of tablelands and other geological features and how these have impacted on the people and society in the localities.

Dates: late 19th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-74/9/1

Scope and Contents Notes for 6 lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', encompasing a wide variety of related subjects. Sir Archibald Geike looked at various geological periods and how both the areas occupied by land and water changed over time. He looked at the creation of many geological formations, at the materials they were composed of and the processes involved, including the infleunce of different elements within the natural world. He used as examples numerous locations, mostly within the British Isles but...

Dates: late 19th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Answers to queries, late 19th century

Correspondence from Karl August Lossen, 1882-1889

Lecture notes, 1884-1886

Lecture notes, late 19th century

Lecture on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', 1886

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 31 October 1883

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 21 July 1884

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Captain Clarence Edward Dutton, 05 March 1880

Notes for lectures given in Dublin, late 19th century

Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', late 19th century

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