Isle of Man
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence: François Antione Alfred Lacroix to Edwin Ray Lankester, 1892-1909
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/10
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence: François Antione Alfred Lacroix to Edwin Ray sub-series consists of:
- 21 letters, alphabetically arranged (1892-1909)
Dates:
1892-1909
Geological Survey notebook 'W W', 1897
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/1/9
Scope and Contents
Drawings and notes on the geology of Ireland and Lowland Scotland, particularly Fife and the Ochills, and also of the Isle of Man. References are made to crystalline rocks at Donegal, clays at Sligo and Elie, shale at Dura Den and Blebo (both Fife) and marine terraces at Kincraig (near Elie).
Dates:
1897
Lecture on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', 1886
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/7/2
Scope and Contents
Notes for 4 lectures on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', given to the Royal Institution in 1886. Sir Archibald Geikie looked at the emergence of types of geological formations against a geological timeframe and how they have been affected by various processes, especially the action of volcanoes and materials produced by them, within the natural world. He used examples from numerous locations from different parts of the British Isles.
Dates:
1886
Letter to George Wilson from Jane Forbes, 18 August 1855
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/12
Scope and Contents
Letter to George Wilson from Jane Forbes refuting that her son was disinterested in his roots on the Isle of Man.
Dates:
18 August 1855
Note on the 'ostiarij', 1886
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/310
Scope and Contents
Note on the 'ostiarij' [ostiarii or Iona's inhabitants] and that their name comes from their former office in the church [doorkeepers].They never exceed 5 or 8 in number from a male because of an act of misbehaviour committed in St Columba's time according to Dean Frazer [Dean John Fraser]. Also notes that Dean Frazer gave the governorship of the Isle of Man to Sacheverall and that the currach is still used in Wales.
Dates:
1886
Notebook No.78, 12 August 1839-17 October 1839
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 3: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/78
Scope and Contents
This dark maroon colored leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's specimen lists, to do lists, notes from colleagues publications, sketches, many blank pages. Miscellaneous notes; pp.21-22 - References to Darwin's 'Glen Roy' paper. Front and back cover are blank, index is p. 115-6. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from digital...
Dates:
12 August 1839-17 October 1839