Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from W.L. Carnegie, 1841
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/26
Scope and Contents
Letter with envelope to Sir Charles Lyell from W. L. Carnegie asking for information and advice on geological matters. He requests that Lyell might tell him where to find publications of Lyell's work and which publication about Trap he should buy. He discusses his work at quarries near Newcastle and relates a story (with diagram) about contractors there. He also mentions that he has discovered a quarry with superior material and expects to be able to supply Arbroath with cheap, high quality paving blocks, 1841.
Dates
- 1841
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Extent
1 letter
- Arbroath Angus Scotland
- English Agricultural Society
- Geology
- Lindsay-Carnegie, William Fullerton, 1788–1860 (Scottish industrialist, plant collector | Vice-lieutenant of Forfarshire, 1856–60)
- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist)
- Museum of Economic Geology (1841-)
- Newcastle Upon Tyne (England)
- Paving
- Quarries and Quarrying
- Trap Conglomerate
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University of Edinburgh Main Library
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Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
special.collections.library@ed.ac.uk