Geology
Found in 165 Collections and/or Records:
Notes for paper on Sections of Isla, [Melgus], Prosen and South Esk, c1822-1824
Notes for a paper on sections of Isla, [Melges], Prosen and South Esk containing information from publications and other scientists about rock types in Forfarshire. c1822-1824.
Notes from lectures on climate, geology and zoology given by Robert Jameson
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
Notes on deserted houses, archaeological sites and the geography of Tarasaigh/Taransay with accompanying sketch, 9 July 1870
Notes on Dumfriesshire and the Alps, 1802
Volume contains notes on the geology of Dumfriesshire, dated by Professor Sweet to 1802, and an outline of the writeup of the geology of the Alps by 'Saussures', probably Swiss colleague Horace Benedict de Saussure (1740-1799).
Notes on Examinations for the Falconer Fellowship, late 19th century
Notes about the two day oral and written examination in Geology and Paleontology for the Falconer Fellowship which was awarded to RA Lundie. Under the Deed of Foundation aspects of Zoology and Botany were also touched upon.
Notes on the island of Esaidh [Easaigh/Ensay], 13 July 1870
Notes on the New Zealand earthquake of 1855, c1855
Notes on wildlife, 21 May 1877
Notes on the flora and fauna of A Mheribh Bheag [A' Bheiribhe Bheag, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] including glas-fhaoileagan [herring gulls], buttercups and wild kale. Includes sketch of a perpendicular hole found on the south east of the island.
Notes taken by Ralph Richardson at lectures by Sir Archibald Geikie
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.
On the Geological Structure of the Madeiran Islands, 1856
On the Geological Structure of the Madeiran Islands by Sir Charles Lyell and Georg Hartung which is a summary of their observations during a visit to the Madeiran Islands in the winter of 1853-1854 and to three Canary islands, La Palma, Teneriffe and Grand Canary, in the Spring of 1854, with diagrams, 1856.