Geology
Found in 170 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook No.113, 31 August 1843 - 8 October 1843
Notes about Dun Othail, 17 October 1873
Notes about Dun Othail [Dùn Othail, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis] that it is a detached rock which overhangs the sea, is about two hundred feet high on the sea side, has ruins on the top and is level with the land. He notes that it is 'Whilly impregnable except to guns.'
Notes about Gill odhar, September 1870
Notes probably collected from John Black, aged eighty-six, Killean, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire about Gill odhar [Clach Gille Odhar] that it was the only place where there was an echo but that it was now broken. He also describes metal archaeological finds he found while making a drain at Aoine Port an Daimh in Achadun.
Notes for lectures given in Dublin, late 19th century
Notes for 2 lectures given in Dublin. Sir Archibald Geikie looked at the evolution of scenery around the British Isles. He looked particularly at those elements formed by erosion, such as river valleys, using many locations as examples. He also looked at the formation of tablelands and other geological features and how these have impacted on the people and society in the localities.
Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', late 19th century
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.