Landscape
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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', late 19th century
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Identifier: Coll-74/9/1
Scope and Contents
Notes for 6 lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', encompasing a wide variety of related subjects. Sir Archibald Geike looked at various geological periods and how both the areas occupied by land and water changed over time. He looked at the creation of many geological formations, at the materials they were composed of and the processes involved, including the infleunce of different elements within the natural world. He used as examples numerous locations, mostly within the British Isles but...
Dates:
late 19th century
Pencil sketches of fields and village with a coloured version, 1860
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Identifier: Coll-1619/9/2
Scope and Contents
Two pencil sketches of fields and village alongside a coloured version as well.
Dates:
1860
Poem beginning 'Oh! for the flush of the mount[ain] heather', 23 June 1885
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/281
Scope and Contents
Poem beginning 'Oh! for the flush of the mount[ain] heather' written at 31 Raeburn Place, Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann].
Dates:
23 June 1885
PR2.10855, 1953-1961
Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10855
Scope and Contents
Note and correspondence relating to male patient .
Dates:
1953-1961
Royal Institution of Great Britain: Syllabus of a Course of Three Lectures on the Origin of Land-Surfaces by Archibald Geikie, FRS, 1867-1868
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Identifier: Coll-74/8/2
Scope and Contents
Syllabus for a series of 3 lectures Sir Archibald Geikie gave to The Royal Insitution of Great Britain in 1869, broadly focusing on valleys, hills and mountains, erosion, geological structure and related subjects.
Dates:
1867-1868
Two proof plates from Cleghorn’s Forests & Gardens of South India, 1861
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Identifier: Coll-1619/19/1-2
Scope and Contents
Two proof plates (7,13) from Cleghorn's Forests & Gardens of south India, D. Hamilton delt. [Major Douglas Hamilton, who drew forest sceneries], W. H. MacFarlane, Lithr. Edinr [William Husband MacFarlane, Edinburgh lithographer].
Dates:
1861