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Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (H-S), 1839-1916

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (H-S) series consists of:


  1. 19 sub-series, largely alphabetically arranged by correspondent.
Dates: 1839-1916
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie

Correspondence of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1827-1871

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/10
Scope and Contents The Correspondence of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison series consists of: letters from Murchison to his wife, 1854 and 1857 miscellaneous correspondence and notes (including letters to Sir Archibald Geikie) 1831-1871 correspondence relating to Murchison's dispute with Adam Sedgwick regarding Silurian classification 1838 and 1852-1866 assorted...
Dates: 1827-1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie

General: 1955, 1955

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/37
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from William Roxburgh Forrester and Reinhold Niebuhr. Includes letters instructing publishers as to recipients of complimentary copies of Donald Macpherson Baillie's To whom shall we go? ( 1955) and John Baillie's A diary of readings ( 1955).

Dates: 1955
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

Interpretation of Religion, 1927-1939

 File
Identifier: BAI 1/18/1/2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and royalty reports from publishers (Charles Scribner's Sons and T & T Clark) and correspondence with friends, colleagues and other readers relating to Interpretation of Religion ( 1929).

Dates: 1927-1939
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Correspondence: books / Correspondence: books (by title)

Invitation to Pilgrimage, 1943-1944

 File
Identifier: BAI 1/18/1/8
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with publishers (Oxford University Press) and correspondence with friends, colleagues and other readers relating to Invitation to Pilgrimage ( 1942).

Dates: 1943-1944
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Correspondence: books / Correspondence: books (by title)

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George Edward Simonds Boulger, 19 November 1889

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/61
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George Edward Simonds Boulger asking permission to use a copy of Geikie's sketch of the Old Man of Hoy in a forthcoming article on rock pinnacles.

Dates: 19 November 1889
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from HF Blanford, 21 January 1890

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/55
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from HF Blanford telling Geikie that he will bring the illustrations for the Geography [book] to London one day that week. He says that there will be 30 altogether, although some have been used in Blanford's previous publications.

Dates: 21 January 1890
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour, 05 July 1879

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/10
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour telling him that the addresses by Professors Philp Kelland and Matthew Forster Heddle are currently with Neill and Co but could be borrowed from them so long as they are returned to Balfour and copies made available for the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Dates: 05 July 1879
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour, 14 July 1879

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

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour telling Geikie that the council [of the Royal Society of Edinburgh] has approved the requested sum of £53 and he can engage the lithographer.

Dates: 14 July 1879
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Jeremiah Bigsby, 20 April 1879

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/49
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Jeremiah Bigsby asking Geikie to include his Thesaurus Siluricas in the list of recent palaeontology works in his next edition of Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart, ( 1875) . He mentions that Sir Roderick Impey Murchison gave him advice for the book, and a listing would help the sales of his forthcoming Thesaurus Devonico-Carboniferous. A list of Scottish towns...
Dates: 20 April 1879
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown

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