Social Interaction
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from FJ Bennett, 26 March 1895
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from FJ Bennett inviting Geikie to dinner and giving train and accommodation details. Bennett reports on his health. Train times are jotted on the back in a different hand.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Frank Evers Beddard, mid-late 19th century
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Frank Evers Beddard accepting Geikie's dinner invitation.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow, 09 June 1861
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow thanking Geikie for his gift of a copy of Memoir of Edward Forbes, FRS, ( 1861) and praising the content.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow, 11 April 1865
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow congratulating Geikie on his professorship and casting some criticisms at the selection procedure for the post.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow, 16 March 1872
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.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow, 18 May 1875
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow thanking him for his gift of a copy of his work Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart. : based on his journals and letters with notices of his scientific contemporaries and a sketch of the rise and growth of Palaeozoic geology in Britain, ( 1875) . He hopes that the publication will not reopen the historical controversy between Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and Adam Sedgwick.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from James Bennie, 06 May 1874
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from James Bennie reporting that he had cleared out the cupboard at Ramsay Lodge, as instructed, and had left the specimens in the greenhouse and returned the papers and the bust of Shakespeare to the office. He thanks Geikie for a present.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Ball, mid-late 19th century
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Ball telling him that he will call at the museum the next day as he has to go to Kew on that day.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Robert Stawell Ball, 24 May 1895
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Robert Stawell Ball inviting Geikie to dine with him at hall in King's College, Cambridge the next day.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Spencer Fullerton Baird, 31 May 1878
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Spencer Fullerton Baird telling him that a letter and package addressed to Professor Jules Marcau has been sent to his address in error. Baird requests that Geikie either return the items to their sender William Wesley or send them on to Professor Marcau.