Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 25 February 1860
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/29
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan with comment on the first 4 chapters of his Memoirs of Edward Forbes, ( 1861) and advice for future chapters. He suggests printing the book in Edinburgh. He comments that he does not expect any further opposition to the book fom Emily M Yelverton and has had further endorsements for the book from Thomas Henry Huxley and Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen.
Dates
- 25 February 1860
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Language of Materials
English
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1 letter
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From the Fonds: 2 metres
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1 letter
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Sarah Higgins 18 December 2000
- Biography
- Book Proposals
- Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854)
- Geikie, Archibald, Sir (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh)
- Godwin-Austen, Robert Alfred Cloyne, 1808-1884 (foreign secretary of the Geological Society)
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (man of science)
- Jukes, 1811-1869 (director of the Geological Survey of Ireland)
- MacMillan, Alexander, 1815-1896 (publisher)
- Yelverton, Emily M, fl1860 (widow of Edward Forbes)
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+44(0)131 650 8379
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