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Copy of letter to [Jessie Aitken Wilson] from Emily M Yelverton, 27 January 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/60
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Copy of letter to [Jessie Aitken Wilson] from Emily M Yelverton telling her that she does not sanction the completion of the 'Memoir of Edward Forbes' by Sir Archibald Geikie and asking for the return of all personal items which she had lent to the late George Wilson for the project.

Dates: 27 January 1860

Correspondence concerning the compilation of 'Memoir of Edward Forbes', 1854-1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3
Scope and Contents The Correspondence concerning the compilation of 'Memoir of Edward Forbes' sub-series consists of: pen and ink sketches by Edward Forbes (c1854) letters from and to contributors and collaborators (1854-1861) letters to and from the publisher Alexander MacMillan (1860-1861) letters to and from the printer Thomas Constable (1860-1861) list...
Dates: 1854-1861

Correspondence from Sir Francis Darwin, 1884-1887

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/13
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The Correspondence from Sir Francis Darwin sub-series consists of:


  1. 13 letters, the bulk dated 1884-1887 and arranged chronologically
Dates: 1884-1887

Correspondence: Joseph Wilson Lowry to HR Mill, 1839-1909

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Identifier: Coll-74/12/14
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The Correspondence: Joseph Wilson Lowry to HR Mill sub-series consists of:


  1. 35 letters, alphabetically arranged (1839-1909)
Dates: 1839-1909

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Canadian geologists, 1872-1900

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Identifier: Coll-74/13/4
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The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Canadian geologists sub-series consists of:


  1. 50 letters, alphabetically arranged (1872-1900)
Dates: 1872-1900

Correspondence of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1827-1871

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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

Correspondence: Sir Arthur William Rücker to James Smith, 1863-1900

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Identifier: Coll-74/12/19
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The Correspondence: Sir Arthur William Rücker to James Smith sub-series consists of:


  1. 34 letters, alphabetically arranged (1863/1900)
Dates: 1863-1900

Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: FW Egan to John Evans, 1866-1900

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/16
Scope and Contents The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: FW Egan to John Evans sub-series consists of: 2 letters from FW Egan (1897-1900) 5 letters from Sir Philip De Malpas Grey Egerton (1871-1875) 4 letters from the Earl of Enniskillen (1884-1896) 9 letters from Robert Etheridge snr. (1869-1879) 2 letters from Robert Etheridge jnr....
Dates: 1866-1900

Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Robert Harkness to Francis John Haverfield, 1872-1915

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/22
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Robert Harkness to Francis John Haverfield sub-series consists of:


  1. 18 letters, alphabetically arranged (1872-1915)
Dates: 1872-1915

Letter to Alexander MacMillan from Joseph Beete Jukes, 20 September 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/16
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Letter to Alexander MacMillan from Joseph Beete Jukes explaining that he has enclosed an example of the sort of material he could submit for the biography of Edward Forbes. He lists other possible topics and asks for confirmation that they will be required before spending time on them.

Dates: 20 September 1860

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  • Subject: Biography X
  • Names: Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) X

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Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) 37
MacMillan, Alexander, 1815-1896 (publisher) 19
Jukes, 1811-1869 (director of the Geological Survey of Ireland) 17
Yelverton, Emily M, fl1860 (widow of Edward Forbes) 12
Wilson, Jessie Aitken, fl.1860 (fiction writer, sister of George Wilson, wife of James Sime) 8
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Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (man of science) 7
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 6
Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist) 6
Wilson, George, 1818-1859 (regius professor of technology, University of Edinburgh) 6
Godwin-Austen, Robert Alfred Cloyne, 1808-1884 (foreign secretary of the Geological Society) 5
Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 4
Paterson, Robert, 1802-1872 (president, Natural History Society of Belfast) 4
Voorst, John Van, fl1863 (publisher) 4
Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 (geologist and distiller) 3
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 3
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 3
Baily, William Hellier, 1819-1888 (geologist and palaeontologist) 2
Bristow, Henry William, 1817-1889 (geologist) 2
Edmonston & Douglas (fl1861) 2
Government School of Mines and of Science as Applied to the Arts (1851-) 2
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 2
Scotsman (1817-:) 2
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist and professor of geology, University of Cambridge) 2
Thomas Constable (1834-1850) 2
Thompson, William, 1805-1852 (naturalist) 2
Albert, 1819-1861 (Prince Consort of Queen Victoria) 1
Balfour, John Hutton, 1808-1884 (professor of botany, University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh) 1
Ball, Robert, 1802-1857 (naturalist, president of the Geological Society of Ireland) 1
Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 (naturalist, explorer and assistant secretary, Royal Geographical Society) 1
Beche, Sir Henry Thomas, 1796-1855 (English geologist) 1
Bell, Robert, 1841-1917 (Director of the Geological Survey of Canada) 1
Bennett, John Hughes, 1812-1875 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 1
Best, Edward, fl1861-1884 1
Bettany, George Thomas, 1850-1891 (historian and anthropologist) 1
Campbell, Peter Colin, 1810-1876 (first principal, University of Aberdeen) 1
Clark, Sir James, 1788-1870 (court physician) 1
Clarke, Reverend William Branwhite, 1798-1878 (Anglican clergyman and geologist, New South Wales (Australia)) 1
Claudet, 1797-1867 (photographer) 1
Cole, William Willoughby, 1807-1886 (3rd Earl of Enniskillen | paleontologist) 1
Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 (American geologist, mineralogist, and naturalist) 1
Darwin, Sir Francis, 1848-1925 (botanist) 1
Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901 (Canadian geologist) 1
Dawson, Sir John William, 1820-1899 (geologist) 1
Day, George Edward, 1815-1872 (professor of anatomy and medicine, University of St. Andrews) 1
Egan, FW, fl1897-1900 (member of the Geological Survey of Ireland) 1
Etheridge, Robert, 1819-1903 (geologist and palaeontologist) 1
Etheridge, Robert, 1846-1920 (geologist and palaeontologist) 1
Evans, Sir John, 1823-1908 (archaeologist and numismatist) 1
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 1
Geological Survey of Canada (1842-:) 1
Geological Survey of Ireland 1
Geological Survey of Newfoundland (1864-:) 1
Graves, fl1841-1852 (captain, HM Surveying ship Beacon) 1
Grey-Egerton, Philip De Malpas, 1806-1881 (palaeontologist) 1
Hargraves, Edward Hammond, 1816-1891 (Australian gold mining pioneer) 1
Harkness, Robert, 1816-1878 (British geologist and zoologist | Professor of Geology, Queen's College Cork) 1
Hartley, Sir Charles Augustus, 1825-1915 (civil engineer) 1
Haverfield, Francis John, 1860-1919 (archaeologist) 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
Hunt, Thomas Sterry, 1826-1892 (Canadian chemist) 1
Laughton, James Brotherstone (James Brotherstone) 1
Logan, Sir William Edmond, 1798-1875 (Canadian geologist | Director of Geological Survey of Canada 1842-1869) 1
Lowry, Joseph Wilson, 1803-1879 (engraver to the British Geological Survey) 1
Lubbock, Sir Joseph Wilson, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avesbury (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 1
Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell, 1850-1926 1
Maclaren, Charles, 1782-1866 (first editor of the Scotsman) 1
Mallet, Robert, 1810-1881 (civil engineer and scientific investigator) 1
McHenry, Alexander, fl1881-1894 (worked on the Geological Survey of Ireland) 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
Murray, Alexander, 1810-1884 (Director General of the Geological Survey of Newfoundland) 1
Museum of Economic Geology (1841-) 1
Playfair, Sir Lyon, 1818-1898 (1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews) 1
Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke, 1810-1895 (diplomat and Assyriologist) 1
Royal Geographical Society (1830-:) 1
Rücker, Sir Arthur William, 1848-1915 (physicist) 1
Salter, John William, 1820-1869 (palaeontologist, Geological Survey of Great Britain) 1
Scott, Dukinfield Henry, 1854-1934 (president of the Linnean Society) 1
Scott, Robert Henry, Robert Henry 1833-1916 (meteorologist) 1
Scouler, John, 1804-1871 (surgeon and naturalist) 1
Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil, 1824-1902 (geologist and director of the geological survey of Canada) 1
Shairp, John Campbell, 1819-1885 (principal of University College St Andrews) 1
Skertchly, Sydney Barber Josiah, 1850-1926 (Australian botanist and geologist) 1
Thiselton-Dyer, Sir William Turner, 1843-1928 (botanist and director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (England)) 1
Tyrrell, Joseph Burr, 1858-1957 (Canadian explorer and geologist) 1
University College London (1826-:) 1
William Blackwood & Sons (1804-c1980) (Publishers) 1
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