Geological Specimens
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Collector's box and teaching cabinet of Catherine Mary Stirling
Collection
Identifier: Coll-1893
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one Victorian wooden box, used for collecting and teaching, that belonged to Catherine Mary of Stirling, from Kippenross House, near Dunblane. It is still complete and fitted with 5 removable trays containing specimens of:
Animal & Vegetable Substances (such as nut galls, Portuguese cork, a piece of tortoise shell, timber specimens, pearls, etc.)
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Dates:
1847
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: William Whitaker to Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, 1870-1900
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/13/12
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: William Whitaker to Horace Bolingbroke Woodward sub-series includes letters from:
- William Whitaker
- Sir Charles William Wilson
- Edward Adrian Wilson
- John Wilson
- Horace Bolingbroke Woodward
Images from this series:
Dates:
1870-1900
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Sir Edward Frankland, 23 December 1879
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/1/8
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Sir Edward Frankland apologising for the delay in reporting on some rock specimens. He explains that this is due to the necessity to repeat some of the analysis and the death of Valentine.
Dates:
23 December 1879