Fossils
Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:
Draft manuscript concerning the geology of Madeira with index, June 1856
Draft manuscript concerning the geology of Madeira with index. Topics covered include: Size and structure of Madeira, Scoriaeceous formations, Fossil remains of 3 periods which are to be found on Madeira, Lavas, Successive eruptions. June 1856. Folio 399-412 is a notebook of drawings by JB [Joanna Baillie] Horner.
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing proverbs; Fenian tales; stories about shipwrecks; Roderick Morison 'An Clàrsair Dall' and his father John Morison tacksman of Bragar; the Beaton family; and about sea-faring; notes about islands in the Sound of Harris; and a small amount of vocabulary.
Grand Canary fossils, 1855
List entitled 'Grand [sic Gran] Canary fossils - numbered so as to count them along the side.
Lecture on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', 1886
Notes for 4 lectures on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', given to the Royal Institution in 1886. Sir Archibald Geikie looked at the emergence of types of geological formations against a geological timeframe and how they have been affected by various processes, especially the action of volcanoes and materials produced by them, within the natural world. He used examples from numerous locations from different parts of the British Isles.
Letter from Dr John Heysham to Joseph Black, 01 November 1783
Letter from Dr John Heysham to Joseph Black sending a fossil substance.
Letter from George Burnett (nephew) to Joseph Black, 23 September 1771
Letter from George Burnett, Gibraltar (nephew of Joseph Black) to Joseph Black, sending mineralogical specimens and fossils.
Letter from Hugh Miller to Alexander Rose, c1845
Letter from Hugh Miller to Alexander Rose, originally accompanying some Old Red Sandstone fossils which he comments on. He also refers to the space they will occupy and to an article Rose had sent him.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from J.B Robertson, 18 November 1910
Robertson writes that he had come to the same conclusion as Ewart that a slender horse played an important part in the ancestry of the English thoroughbred. He has compared various fossilised remains and concluded that although the shaft of the central portion of the large metacarpal bone is broad, the shapes of the first three phalanger are indicative of a slender race. He makes several observations on the significance of the metacarpals.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Walter Gregory, 29 December 1927
Gregory writes that the lower jaw of a horse has been discovered in the upper drifts filling the pre-glacial valley of the Clyde at Lanark. He suspects that it dates from around the Early Neolithic period. He asks Ewart to look at the specimen and write a short note on it for inclusion in the Hunterian Museum glacial vertebrate fossils.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Walter Gregory, 08 February 1928
Gregory writes that he has provisionally inserted the bed in a tabular classification as Neolithic. He believes it must be post-glacial, as it represents the silting up of valleys which were excavated at the end of glacial times, but the horse jaw is the only fossil evidence of this.