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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Jeremiah Bigsby, 27 April 1875

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/50
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Jeremiah Bigsby thanking Geikie for the note in which he apologised for accidentally missing Bigsby's Thesaurus Siluricas from his list of recent paleontology works in Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart, ( 1875) .

Dates: 27 April 1875
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 Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell, 06 February 1889

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/62
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell in his capacity as Honarary Secretary of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, asking Geikie if he could speak one Friday evening after Easter, possibly the 07 June 1889.

Dates: 06 February 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 Sir Robert Stawell Ball, mid-late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/15
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Robert Stawell Ball telling him that he could contribute chapters on geodesy, surveying and cartography to Geikie's proposed textbooks on geography. Ball asks to hear from the publishers on the business aspect of this arrangement.

Dates: mid-late 19th century
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 Sir Robert Stawell Ball, 25 June 1885

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/16
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Robert Stawell Ball thanking him for his letter promising co-operation, and enclosing some pages (not attached).

Dates: 25 June 1885
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 Sir Robert Stawell Ball, 09 February 1886

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/17
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Robert Stawell Ball thanking him for thanking him for the "Revised Geology".

Dates: 09 February 1886
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 Sir Robert Stawell Ball, 09 June 1886

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/18
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Robert Stawell Ball asking Geikie when he thinks he will be able to submit his article for the "Admiralty Manual", as it is now required by the publishers.

Dates: 09 June 1886
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 Sir Robert Stawell Ball, 21 December 1886

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/19
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Robert Stawell Ball enclosing a cheque for £10-10s in payment for Geikie's article for the "Admiralty Manual".

Dates: 21 December 1886
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

Letters to Alexander MacMillan, 1870-1873

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/2
Scope and Contents

The Letters to Alexander MacMillan sub-series consists of:


  1. 6 letters from a variety of contemporary literary figures (1870-1873).
Dates: 1870-1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H)

Our knowledge of God, 1939-1943

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Identifier: BAI 1/18/1/7
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with publishers (Oxford University Press and Charles Scribner's Sons) and correspondence with friends, colleagues and other readers relating to Our knowledge of God ( 1939).

Dates: 1939-1943
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)

Proof copies of Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on geology, 1879

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Identifier: Coll-74/8/3
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Proof copies of Sir Archibald Geikie's contribution on geology to the Encyclopaedia Britannica from various dates in 1879, published by Adam and Charles Black.

Dates: 1879
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Publication proofs and lecture syllabuses

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