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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lectures of Robert Jameson (1774-1854), Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: MS JAM
Scope and Contents

Manuscript volume titled, 'Notes from the lectures of Professor Jameson on geology'. Contains a list of recommended books on geology on the first page. Diagrams included throughout.

Dates: c.1820
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Letterbook of Hugh Miller (1802-1856), geologist and editor of ‘The Witness’

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MIL1
Scope and Contents MS MIL 1.1Volume containing handwritten holograph copies of 232 letters between Hugh Miller and a number of correspondents from 1825 to 1839. Correspondents include William Ross, John Swanson, George Anderson, Robert Carruthers, Mrs. Dunbar of Boath, the Duke of Wellington, Thomas Dick Lauder, the Very Reverend Principal Baird, and others. There are also a number of poems and a few drawings throughout. Two letters in an envelope to Dr. Mitchell Hunter from Henry...
Dates: 1825-1839; 1995
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Dates: early 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Dr. John Walker

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-205
Scope and Contents

[to be completed]

Dates: 1731-1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Professor James Geikie

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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...
Dates: 1872-1917
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 4
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 3
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 3
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 3
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 3
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 3
Geological Society of London (1807-:) 2
Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 2
Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-:) 2
Agriculture Society of Edinburgh 1
Anderson, George, 1802-1878 1
Anderson, Tempest, 1846-1913 (opthalmic surgeon, photographer and volcanologist) 1
Baird, George Husband, 1761-1840 (minister, Principal of the University of Edinburgh) 1
British Association for the Advancement of Science (1831-:) 1
Buckland, William, 1784-1856 (English theologian, geologist) 1
Cronstedt, Axel Fredrik, 1722-1765 (Swedish chemist) 1
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and metalurgist) 1
Cust, Richard, 1754-1844, Geologist 1
Dansey, William, Rev., 1792?1856 (clergyman | Rector of Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire) 1
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 1
Dick, Robert, 1811-1866, Geologist and Botanist 1
Edinburgh Geological Society 1
Flett, John Smith, Sir, 1869-1947 1
Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) 1
Highland Society of Scotland 1
Home, Henry, Lord Kames, 1696-1782 (judge and philosopher) 1
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875, Author 1
Lauder, Thomas Dick, Sir, 1784-1848 1
Linnaeus, Carl, 1707-1778 (Swedish taxonomist) 1
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
Natural History Society of Edinburgh 1
Peach, Charles William, 30 September 1800 – 28 February 1886 (British naturalist and geologist) 1
Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist) 1
Richardson, Ralph (Writer to the Signet) 1
Rose, Alexander (geologist) 1
Royal Scottish Geographical Society (1884-:) 1
Sissons, Brian, 1926-2018 (British earth scientist) 1
University of Edinburgh, Natural History Collection. Natural History Collection (1697-1812) 1
University of London. King's College London (1829-:) 1
Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman) 1
Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington 1
Werner, Abraham Gottlob, 1750-1817 (German geologist, inspector and teacher, Freiberg Mining Academy) 1
Wernerian Natural History Society (1808-1858) 1