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Archibald Geikie, correpondence

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1815/2
Scope and Contents Letters to Sir Archibald Geike from: Hicks, Henry (25 Oct. 1887); Hooker, Joseph Dalton (Sir) (May 1890); Horne, John (5 Jun. 1898); Huxley, Thomas Henry (17 May 1862); Kidston, Robert (3 Aug. 1883); Lapworth, Charles (Sir) (16 Nov. 1898); Lyell, Charles (Sir) (31 Mar. 1860); Marcou, Jules (5 Jan. 1871); Marcon, Jules (30 Apr. 1878); Milne, John (15 Aug. 1895); Peach, Benjamin Neve (19 Oct. 1898); Prestwich, Joseph (Sir) (15 May 1892?); Scrope, G. Poulett (1866?); Sorby, Henry...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1840s-1940s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Autograph Letter Signed from Charles Lyell to an unknown correspondent, 21 April 1874

 Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0081
Scope and Contents This is an antograph letter signed "Cha. Lyell", sent by Charles Lyell to an unnamed individual, dated 24 April 1874, 73 Harley Street, London. In this letter he thanks his correspondent for "the additional list of Aldeby shells", explaining that he has completed "[his] new edition of the Students Elements [of Geology]" and that he "[had the assistance of Mr Searles Wood". He goes on to discuss papers and maps relating to the geology of the Rhine which Lyell himself had found instructive,...
Dates: 21 April 1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Bartolommeo Gastaldi, 14 February 1873

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/1/7
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Bartolommeo Gastaldi reporting a riot at his school where a colleague's lectures were boycotted. He mentions having sent details of geological maps of the area around Jura and promises to pay what he owes to the Geological Survey. Mention is also made of a letter by Gastaldi that Sir Charles Lyell is having published in the next edition of the Geological Magazine.

Dates: 14 February 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Sir John William Dawson, 5 March 1875

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/1/12
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Sir John William Dawson asking him to propose his son George Mercer Dawson for membership of the Geological Society. He gives a brief summary of his son's geological career to date. He mentions that he is publishing a book and a paper on Eozon. He laments the death of Sir Charles Lyell and Sir William Logan's current illness.

Dates: 5 March 1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, 27 May 1861

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/49
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay with editorial comments about the inclusion of sensitive material concerning the School of Mines, the Museum of Economic Geology and the Geological Survey of Great Britain in his 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'.

Dates: 27 May 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters from Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crosbie to Charles Lyell, 18 October 1846 - 28 February 1874

 File — Box Box 1.11: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/220
Scope and Contents

Includes letter from J Ramsay and possible photograph stating"Richard Bluhme, Berg-Afsoc(?)".

Dates: 18 October 1846 - 28 February 1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notebook No.258, 22 April 1870-3 July 1871

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/258
Scope and Contents This black Notebook is annotated with Lyell's name, address at 73 Harley Street, London. The Notebook begins with the end a tour of Devon - started in the previous Notebook 257 - with Lyell in Barnstaple. Mostly written by Buckley, there are sections of very poor writing at times, which could be Lyell's own. From Devon to Bristol Clifton Bridge and Bath. Time following up queries and visiting the British Museum in London is followed by train to Glasgow with Mary and Leonard, then to the Isle...
Dates: 22 April 1870-3 July 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 2
Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 (British botanist, explorer | Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew) 2
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (man of science) 2
Bryce, James, 1806-1877 (Irish mathematician, naturalist and geologist) 1
Buckley, Arabella Burton, 1840 – 1929 (Writer and Educator) 1
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Campbell, George John Douglas, 1823-1900 (8th and 1st Duke of Argyll, British polymath and Liberal statesman) 1
Carruthers, William, 1830-1922 (botanist, Keeper of the Department of Botany, British Museum) 1
Clark, Sir James, 1788-1870 (court physician) 1
Daintree, Richard, 1832-1878 (geologist, surveyor, photographer) 1
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 1
Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901 (geologist) 1
Dawson, Sir John William, 1820-1899 (geologist) 1
De la Beche, Thomas, 1796-1855 (English geologist, palaeontologist) 1
Forbes, David, 1828-1876 (Manx mineralogist, metallurgist, and chemist, secretary to the Geological Society) 1
Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) 1
Gastaldi, Bartolommeo, 10 February 1818 – 5 January 1879 (Italian professor, geologist and paleontologist, and one of the founders of the Club Alpino Italiano) 1
Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 1
Government School of Mines and of Science as Applied to the Arts (1851-) 1
Hicks, Henry, 1837-1899 (Welsh geologist and surgeon) 1
Horne, John, 1848-1928 (geologist) 1
Hughes, Thomas McKenny, 1832-1917 (Welsh geologist, Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University) 1
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (English biologist and anthropologist) 1
Kidston, Robert, 1852-1924 (honorary palaeobotanist to the British Geological Survey) 1
Lapworth, Charles, 1842-1920 (geologist) 1
Logan, Sir William Edmond, 1798-1875 (Canadian geologist | Director of Geological Survey of Canada 1842-1869) 1
Lonsdale, William L, 1794-1871 (English geologist and palaeontologist) 1
Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 1
Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell, 1850-1926 1
Marcou, Jules, 1824 – 1898 (French-Swiss-American geologist) 1
Milne, John, 1850-1913 (mining engineer and seismologist) 1
Moore, Charles, 1815-1881 (geologist) 1
Museum of Economic Geology (1841-) 1
Peach, Benjamin Neeve, 1842-1926 (geologist) 1
Playfair, Sir Lyon, 1818-1898 (1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews) 1
Prestwich, Sir Joseph, 1812-1896 (British geologist and businessman, Fellow of the Royal Society) 1
Scrope, George Julius Poulett, 1797-1876 (geologist and political economist) 1
Sorby, Henry Clifton, 1826-1908 (geologist) 1
Steenstrup, 1794-1865 (Danish zoologist and professor of chemistry and mineralogy, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)) 1
Teall, Jethro Justinian, 1849-1924 (geologist) 1
Thomson, Sir William, 1824-1907 (1st Baron Kelvin | mathematical physicist and Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow 1846-1899) 1
Traquair, Ramsay Heatley, 1840-1912 (geologist and palaeontologist) 1
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 (naturalist) 1
Wood, Searles Valentine, 1830-1884 (geologist) 1
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