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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie N-Z, late 19th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/16
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie N-Z series consists of:


  1. letters alphabetically arranged by sender, including those from Sir Joseph Prestwich, Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay and the Royal Society
  2. lectures by James Geikie
  3. postcards
  4. obituaries
Dates: late 19th century

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 17 November 1860

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/39
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan concerning a delay with the printer Thomas Constable. He also tells him that he is trying to trace James Scott Bowerbank via Thomas Henry Huxley and that he encloses a letter to be forwarded from Charles Kingsley to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay.

Dates: 17 November 1860

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow, 16 March 1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/65
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow telling Geikie that after 30 years service he has been promoted to Director of the Geological Survey of England and Wales, in the place of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay who has been promoted to Director in Chief. He reports that Henry Hyatt Howell will take his place as District Surveyor. He asks how sales are going of Joseph Beete Jukes' The Student's Manual of Geology, ( 1857) which Geikie edited.

Dates: 16 March 1872

Letters received by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and other documents, 1805-1871

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-51/3/3
Scope and Contents

3 bundles of around 15 letters (total) received by Sir R.I.Murchison, c.1820-1870, correpondents including his wife, his solicitor and Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay.

Documents connected with Sir R.I.Murchison, c.1805-1871. c.50 items. Includes: passport to France 1814-1815; appointment as Director-General of Geological Survey, 1855.

There are also drawings, one of which is labelled 'by Lady Murchison' one of which is available on LUNA.

Dates: 1805-1871