Landscape

Content Description This is an album used as a sketchbook and a common-place book from the mid-19th century to the 1930s, created and compiled by two Scottish women of the same family. The first contributor is Caroline Elizabeth Houstoun (1840-1926), who filled the volume with well-spaced studies of landscapes and buildings in coloured pencil, pastel, and some watercolour. Some noteworthy sites include Inverness from the Castle, Edinburgh Castle, Euston Station in London, and Saint-Germain in Paris. The...

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Landscape photograph of John Knox's House. Caption: "John Knox's House, Edinburgh".

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No caption. Description of photograph: Landscape photograph of riverbank with tree overhanging. Grass growing from cracks in the side of the river bank wall. Burnside, Fife. Also called the River Almond and the Water of Leith.

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Landscape image of the General Assembly Hall with Edinburgh Castle visible in the background.

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The Lecture notes series consists of:

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Notes for 5 lectures on 'The Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles' given to the Royal Institution in 1884, along with printed abstracts. Sir Archibald Geikie focused on geological formations around the British Isles, with comparisons from European and North American locations, looking at the materials of which they are composed and the processes which went into their creation.

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Text of lecture looking at geological themes, such as landscape, physical geography, the formation of continents, types of rock and volcanic activity, and relating them to such subjects as the relationship between man and nature, mythology, history and religion.

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Landscape photograph of Newhaven. Caption: "Newhaven". From a pencil inscription on the page: "Newhaven St Andrews". From an exhibition caption: "ST Andrews, Fishgate Women and Children Baiting the Lines Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn From original calotype negative, c. 1906".

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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.

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...