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Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: American geologists, 1878-1907
The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: American geologists sub-series consists of:
- 67 letters and postcards, alphabetically arranged (1878-1907).
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Australian and New Zealand geologists, 1884-1900
The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Australian and New Zealand geologists sub-series consists of:
- 11 letters, alphabetically arranged (1884-1900)
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: French geologists, Barrios, 1880-1906
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: French geologists, Barrios sub-series consists of:
- letters, particularly from Charles Barrios of the Faculty of Science, University of Lille, discussing such items as the 8th International Geological Congress in Paris, 1900, various scientific publications and French volcanoes.
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Italian, Spanish and Portuguese geologists, 1871-1907
The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Italian, Spanish and Portuguese geologists sub-series includes letters from:
- Giovanni Capellini (1886-1904).
- WP Jervis (1882-1889).
- Giuseppe De Lorenzo (1901-1906).
- Gaetno Platania (1893-1906).
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Letters from Coutts Trotter, 1879-1886
The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Letters from Coutts Trotter sub-series includes letters from:
- 3 letters, chronologically arranged (1879-1886)
Correspondence:Henry Hyatt Howell to Arthur Roope Hunt, 1884-1909
The Correspondence: Henry Hyatt Howell to Arthur Roope Hunt sub-series consists of:
- 22 letters, alphabetically arranged (1884-1909)
Lecture notes, 1884-1886
The Lecture notes series consists of:
- Notes and printed abstracts.
Lecture notes on 'The Materials of Land', c1879
Lecture notes on the materials the land is composed of, relating these to both mythology and the natural world in general, focusing in on the likes of mountain architecture, volcanoes and earth sculpture.
Lecture on 'The Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles', 1884
Notes for 5 lectures on 'The Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles' given to the Royal Institution in 1884, along with printed abstracts. Sir Archibald Geikie focused on geological formations around the British Isles, with comparisons from European and North American locations, looking at the materials of which they are composed and the processes which went into their creation.
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.