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5 Lectures on geology, c1879

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Identifier: Coll-74/6/18
Scope and Contents

Notes and text for five lectures on geology. Sir Archibald Geikie placed civilisation, religion and mythology in the context of geological development, looking at geolgical formations and the processes and materials involved in their creation.

Dates: c1879
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Account of the 'Liasic district of Skye', 1853

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Identifier: Coll-74/2/2
Scope and Contents

An account of geolocical and natural history aspects of the Isle of Skye made by Sir Archibald Geikie, who visited there in 1853. References are made to the scenery, shale, limestone, coral and glacial formations amongst others.

Dates: 1853
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Applications in regard to Levelling Old Strand Lines in Scotland, 1900-1901

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Identifier: Coll-74/3/10
Scope and Contents

5 letters to Sir Archilbald Geikie, 1 each from Martin Alister Campbell Hinton (1883-1961) and Russell F Gwinnell, following Geikie's lecture to the Geologists' Association on 'Our Older Sea Margins', and 3 from John W Lime offering his services for further survey work around the coast of Scotland.

Dates: 1900-1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Archibald Geikie, correpondence

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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

Bibliographic notes, 1890s-1900s

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Identifier: Coll-74/3/13
Scope and Contents

Rough bibliographical notes relating to Raised Beaches.

Dates: 1890s-1900s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Booklet: 'Geographical Evolution', 1879

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Identifier: Coll-74/6/3
Scope and Contents

Printed booklet by Sir Archibald Geikie, entitled 'Geographical Evolution' and containing the text of a lecture given to the Royal Geographical Society on 24 March 1879 and taken from 'Proceedings of the Royal Society and Monthly Record of Geography', July 1879.

Dates: 1879
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Boston lectures, c1879

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Identifier: Coll-74/6
Scope and Contents

The Boston lectures and other items series consists of:


  1. Text of lectures
  2. Notes for lectures
  3. Maps
Dates: c1879
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Copy of letter to Alexander MacMillan from George Wilson and copy of letter to a cousin of George Wilson's from George Wilson, 16 September 1858, 03 December 1854

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/54
Scope and Contents

Copy of letter to Alexander MacMillan from George Wilson outlining the chapter headings for his 'Memoir of Edward Forbes' and copy of letter to a cousin of George Wilson's from George Wilson concerning the fate of Edward Forbes' soul.

Dates: 16 September 1858; 03 December 1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/60
Scope and Contents

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
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
Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) 57
MacMillan, Alexander, 1815-1896 (publisher) 30
United States Geological Survey 27
Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 25
Jukes, 1811-1869 (director of the Geological Survey of Ireland) 21
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Dutton, Capt Clarence Edward, 1841?1912 (American geologist, United States Geological Survey) 20
Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist) 20
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 15
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 15
Yelverton, Emily M, fl1860 (widow of Edward Forbes) 15
Geological Society of London (1807-:) 13
Balfour, John Hutton, 1808-1884 (professor of botany, University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh) 10
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (man of science) 10
Wilson, Jessie Aitken, fl.1860 (fiction writer, sister of George Wilson, wife of James Sime) 10
Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843-1918 (American geologist) 8
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 8
Allport, Samuel, fl1870-1882 (geologist and librarian) 7
Ball, Sir Robert Stawell, 1840-1913 (astronomer and mathematician) 7
Godwin-Austen, Robert Alfred Cloyne, 1808-1884 (foreign secretary of the Geological Society) 7
Peach, Benjamin Neeve, 1842-1926 (geologist) 7
Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-:) 7
Anderson, Joseph, fl1877-1903 (antiquarian) 6
Anderson, W, fl1890-1893 (geologist) 6
Royal Institution of Great Britain (1799-:) 6
Thomas Constable (1834-1850) 6
Voorst, John Van, fl1863 (publisher) 6
Wilson, George, 1818-1859 (regius professor of technology, University of Edinburgh) 6
Baily, William Hellier, 1819-1888 (geologist and palaeontologist) 5
Bechler, Gustavus R, fl1879 (topographer, United States Geological Survey) 5
Boog-Watson, Robert, fl1862 (clergyman and zoologist) 5
Brodie, P B, 1815-1897 (palaeontologist) 5
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 5
Geological Survey of Ireland 5
Government School of Mines and of Science as Applied to the Arts (1851-) 5
Paterson, Robert, 1802-1872 (president, Natural History Society of Belfast) 5
Royal Geographical Society (1830-:) 5
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist and professor of geology, University of Cambridge) 5
Allman, George James, 1812-1898 (botanist and zoologist) 4
Barrow, George, 1853-1932 (geologist) 4
Bennett, FJ, fl1885-1895 (geologist) 4
Bennie, James, fl1874-1897 (geologist, Geological Survey of Scotland) 4
Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 (geologist and distiller) 4
Bristow, Henry William, 1817-1889 (geologist) 4
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 4
Hayden, Ferdinand Vandiveer, 1829-1887 (American geologist) 4
Horne, John, 1848-1928 (geologist) 4
Howell, Henry Hyatt, 1872-1898 (geologist) 4
King, Clarence, 1842-1901 (American geologist) 4
Anderson, Tempest, 1846-1913 (opthalmic surgeon, photographer and volcanologist) 3
Baron, Richard, 1847-1907 (clergyman, botanist and missionary, London Missionary Society) 3
Bartholomew, John George, 1860-1920 (cartographer) 3
Binney, Edward William, 1812­-1881 (geologist and founder Manchester Geological Society) 3
Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923 (clergyman, mountaineer and geologist) 3
Department of Mineral Resources. Geological Survey of New South Wales (1875-:) 3
Hicks, Henry, 1837-1899 (Welsh geologist and surgeon) 3
Hull, Edward, 1829-1917 (Irish geologist) 3
MacMillan Publishers Ltd (1843-:) 3
Nature 3
Prestwich, Sir Joseph, 1812-1896 (British geologist and businessman, Fellow of the Royal Society) 3
Salter, John William, 1820-1869 (palaeontologist, Geological Survey of Great Britain) 3
Scotsman (1817-:) 3
Scott, Robert Henry, Robert Henry 1833-1916 (meteorologist) 3
Société géologique de France (1830-:) (scientific society) 3
Sorby, Henry Clifton, 1826-1908 (geologist) 3
Teall, Jethro Justinian, 1849-1924 (geologist) 3
Thomson, Sir William, 1824-1907 (1st Baron Kelvin | mathematical physicist and Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow 1846-1899) 3
Wilson, AD, fl1878 (topographer, United States Geological Survey) 3
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 (American naturalist and industrialist) 2
Ball, John, 1818-1889 (man of science and politician) 2
Banerman, H, fl1894-1898 (member, Geological Society of London) 2
Barrett, Sir William Fletcher, 1844 -1925 (professor of physics, Royal College of Science, Dublin (Ireland)) 2
Beche, Sir Henry Thomas, 1796-1855 (English geologist) 2
Belinfante, LL, fl1896-1898 (assistant secretary, Geological Society of London) 2
Bell, Robert, 1841-1917 (Director of the Geological Survey of Canada) 2
Bemrose, H Arnold, fl1897-1904 (naturalist) 2
Best, Edward, fl1861-1884 2
Bigsby, John Jeremiah, 1792-1881 (English physician, geologist, writer and Mayor of Newark upon Trent) 2
Bolton, Herbert (museum curator) 2
Brögger, Waldemar Christofer, 1851-1940 (Norwegian geologist and mineralogist) 2
Campbell, Peter Colin, 1810-1876 (first principal, University of Aberdeen) 2
Clarke, Reverend William Branwhite, 1798-1878 (Anglican clergyman and geologist, New South Wales (Australia)) 2
Croll, James, 1821-1890 (physical geologist and Keeper of Maps and Correspondence, Geological Survey of Scotland) 2
Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 (American geologist, mineralogist, and naturalist) 2
Daubrée, Gabriel Auguste, 1814-1896 (French geochemist) 2
Day, George Edward, 1815-1872 (professor of anatomy and medicine, University of St. Andrews) 2
Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art (1864-1904) 2
Edmonston & Douglas (fl1861) 2
Etheridge, Robert, 1819-1903 (geologist and palaeontologist) 2
Forbes, David, 1828-1876 (secretary to the Geological Society) 2
Forster Brown, Thomas, fl1898-1903 (civil engineer) 2
Gannett, Henry, fl1879| geographer, United States Geological Survey 2
Geological Survey of Canada (1842-:) 2
Gordon, George, 1801-1893 (clergyman, geologist, naturalist and botanist) 2
Hague, Arnold, 1840-1917 (American geologist) 2
Harker, Alfred, 1859-1939 (petrologist) 2
Harkness, Robert, 1816-1878 (British geologist and zoologist | Professor of Geology, Queen's College Cork) 2
Heddle, Matthew Forster, 1828-1897 (professor of chemistry, University of St Andrews) 2
Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 (American geologist, anthropologist, and museum director) 2
Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 (British botanist, explorer | Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew) 2
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