Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 15 February 1860
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/26
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan concerning a strategy suggested by Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay and Thomas Henry Huxley for smoothing over a disagreement with Joseph Beete Jukes and Emily M Yelverton concerning the proposed Memoir of Edward Forbes, FRS, ( 1861).
Dates
- Creation: 15 February 1860
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
1 letter
Extent
From the Fonds: 2 metres
Physical Description
1 letter
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Sarah Higgins 18 December 2000
Creator
Subject
- Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) (Person)
- Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) (Person)
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (man of science) (Person)
- Jukes, 1811-1869 (director of the Geological Survey of Ireland) (Person)
- MacMillan, Alexander, 1815-1896 (publisher) (Person)
- Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist) (Person)
- Yelverton, Emily M, fl1860 (widow of Edward Forbes) (Person)
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