Fossils

Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Item

Identifier: Coll-16/I/130-131

Scope and Contents

Letter from Dr John Heysham to Joseph Black sending a fossil substance.

Dates: 01 November 1783

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Item

Identifier: Coll-16/I/38-39

Scope and Contents

Letter from George Burnett, Gibraltar (nephew of Joseph Black) to Joseph Black, sending mineralogical specimens and fossils.

Dates: 23 September 1771

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Names: Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) X