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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry Walter Bates, 31 October 1874

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/31
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry Walter Bates telling Geikie that has sent him a copy of an address by Sir Henry Rawlinson (not attached) which will give him information concerning Sir Roderick Impey Murchison's connection with the Royal Geographical Society. He gives an additional reference and promises further information will follow.

Dates: 31 October 1874

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow, 09 June 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/63
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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.

Dates: 09 June 1861

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow, 18 May 1875

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/66
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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.

Dates: 18 May 1875

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from James Brotherstone Laughton, 02 July 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/24
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from James Brotherstone Laughton introducing himself as the only remaining member of the Oineromathic Club, suggesting the publication of some poems by Edward Forbes, and offering some for this purpose.

Dates: 02 July 1861

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 24 January 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/55
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson concerning the ownership of letters which her late brother George Wilson had borrowed as background material for the 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'. She suggests writing to the owners to let them know that she has transferred them to Sir Archibald Geikie, and writes a detailed action list. She discusses the health of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay and her dislike of Emily M Yelverton.

Dates: 24 January 1860

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 30 January 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/57
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson enclosing a letter from Emily M Yelverton (not attached) which places obstacles in the way of the completion of 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'. A discussion follows concerning the intellectual ownership of personal letters which are to be used as source material and possible methods of pacifying Emily M Yelverton.

Dates: 30 January 1860

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 03 August 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/58
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson enclosing part of her brother George Wilson's unfinished 'Memoir of Edward Forbes' (not attached). She suggests some people who might be able to provide information concerning the Edward Forbes' period of residence in Paris.

Dates: 03 August 1860

Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from John Hughes Bennett, 19 October 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/5
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Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from John Hughes Bennett detailing Edward Forbes' periods of study in Paris.

Dates: 19 October 1860

Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from Joseph Beete Jukes, 22 February 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/14
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Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from Joseph Beete Jukes offering to help with the proposed biography of Edward Forbes and apologising for the dirty paper he has used.

Dates: 22 February 1860

Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from Joseph Beete Jukes, 01 May 1860

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/15
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Letter to [Sir Archibald Geikie] from Joseph Beete Jukes telling him that he was not acquainted with Edward Forbes between 1839 and 1846 and so will be unable to help with research for that period. He offers post 1846 anecdotes and urges that he be sent reminders for these.

Dates: 01 May 1860