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Collection of Drawings of Minerals
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-542
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of highly colourful drawings of minerals and are organised into five volumes of accompanying notes. Manuscript notes in the volumes indicate that the drawings are arranged in families according to the system of Professor Robert Jameson (1774-1854).
Dates:
1830-1836
Correspondence of Robert Dick
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-195
Scope and Contents
The correspondence in the collection consists entirely of letters to Charles William Peach about the plants and fossils of Caithness. Some comments too against Darwin's theory of evolution. There are also obituaries, press-cuttings and letters about Robert Dick.
Dates:
1800-1866
Letters from Charles Kingsley to Archibald Geikie about the effects of ice
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-837
Identifier: Coll-1164
Scope and Contents
Letter from Kingsley to Archibald Geikie: Eversley 30 November 1868: giving a detailed account of his observations of the effect of ice on the geology of Deeside, Scotland.
Dates:
30 November 1868
Material related to Dr Brian Sissons's research
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1875
Scope and Contents
Maps, borehole records, notebooks and correspondence from Dr Brian Sissons (Reader at Edinburgh University's department of geography from 1953 until his retirement), together with slides, instruments and draft diagrams. The maps and files relate to different periods of his career, and different areas of research such as Glen Roy, the Forth Valley, Berwickshire, the Isle of Skye, the Cairngorms, and Loch Lomond. Areas of study include the Loch Lomond Advance, glacier striations, and Glen Roy...
Dates:
1945-2018
Notes from lectures on climate, geology and zoology given by Robert Jameson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1372
Scope and Contents
2 volumes of approximately 180 pages each: a careful transcription, with some diagrams, of lectures in climate, geology and zoology.
Both bear the book plate from the library of the Rev William Dansey, Rector of Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire, though there is nothing to suggest Dansey had been a student of Jameson's
Both bear the book plate from the library of the Rev William Dansey, Rector of Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire, though there is nothing to suggest Dansey had been a student of Jameson's
Dates:
early 19th century
Notes taken by Ralph Richardson at lectures by Sir Archibald Geikie
Fonds — Volume: Gen.694
Identifier: Coll-1168
Scope and Contents
Notes taken by Ralph Richardson at, with accompanying syllabus to, lectures delivered by Sir Archibald Geikie during his first session (1871-1872) as Murchison Professor of Geology at the University of Edinburgh. Originally in five separate parts, Richardson had them bound into one volume, which bears his bookplate.
Dates:
1871-1872
Papers of Dr. John Walker
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-205
Scope and Contents
[to be completed]
Dates:
1731-1803
Papers of Professor James Geikie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-99
Scope and Contents
The papers of James Geikie consist of:
original lecture notes
reprints of scientific papers
correspondence relating to the publication of scientific papers
personal correspondence and photographs
a copy of The Great Ice Age and its Relation to the Antiquity of Man, (1877), 2nd ed with hand-written notes
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Dates:
1872-1917
Papers of Rolland J. B. Munro relating to James Hutton
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-804
Scope and Contents
The collection contained in two files, six notebooks and one envelope within an archive box is composed of: copies in typescript ofOn the loss of James Hutton's geological collection, an address given on 12 March 1941; notes on James Hutton and the wider Hutton family; correspondence 1939; correspondence 1942-1947; notes on Hutton and Isaac Newton; and address delivered by Munro to the Edinburgh Geological Society, 19 March 1947; genealogical notes; and, assorted notes and correspondence.
Dates:
1939-1947
Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-74
Scope and Contents
The papers Sir Archibald Geikie consist of:
personal, organisational and scientific correspondence
geological notebooks with field sketches and water-colours
reprints of his work
miscellaneous lecture notes
student's lecture notes
lecture notes and printed maps relating to a visit to Boston
proofs for...
Dates:
1851-1921
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- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 1
- Miller, Hugh, 1802-1856 (man of letters and geologist) 1
- Munro, Rolland J. B., fl 1939-1947, Researcher of James Hutton 1
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- Peach, Charles William, 30 September 1800 – 28 February 1886 (British naturalist and geologist) 1
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