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The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown sub-series consists of:

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Folder inscribed 'Comparison of Huancayo [Peru] and Tananarive [French name for Antananarivo, Madagascar]'. The material consists of tabulated data on various values, almost all in Edward Appleton's hand, dated 1951-1954.

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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Richard Baron giving Geikie a precis of the geological structure of the island of Madagascar, where he is a missionary. He asks Geikie if he would be able to identify some rock samples for him if he sent them to London, and offers to send fossils and specimens in return. He reports that gold has recently been found on the island.

Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Richard Baron in which he reminds Geikie that he had offered to make thin sections to identify rock samples which he had sent him. He expresses concern that he has had no response to the paper and rock specimens which he sent, especially as he has had a response concerning some plant specimens which he sent to Kew at the same time. He reports that a Swiss government geologist will shortly arrive in Madagascar and that gold has been found in 8 or 9...

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Photograph of a herd of Madagascar Zebu cattle in the grasslands with several men standing watching them in 1916.

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1. Draft report, "Information prepared by the Imerina District Committee of the London Missionary Society for the Proprosed simultaneous deputations for Madagascar, the summer of 1913" 30 pp.
2. Autobiography by Phoebe Joyce Evans 1890-1975