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Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 23 January 1883

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/13
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton discussing his field trip to the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii). He reports on the large scale of the ultra basic basalt lava flows of the Mauna Loa eruption and the lack of cinder cones. He reports on the ferruginous nature of the lavas and their high olivine content along with observed layers of hematite and magnetite. He describes the volcano's impressive topography and its inability to support running water. He...
Dates: 23 January 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence from Captain Clarence Edward Dutton

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from J Bell, 25 September 1891

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/37
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from J Bell telling him that he was making alternative arrangements for an illustration and had wired Alexander MacMillan to tell him this.

Dates: 25 September 1891
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

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/10
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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

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/11
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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 LL Belinfante, 09 January 1896

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/35
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from LL Belinfante telling him that his paper Tertiary Basalt- Plateaux of North-western Europe will be published in the next Quaterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. Some amendments to 2 of the figures are suggested and these are enclosed (not attached).

Dates: 09 January 1896
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 John Scott Keltie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 22 May 1882

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/11
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir John Scott Keltie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton apologising that the advance atlas sheets for Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District, ( 1882) have not been sent to him due to a hold up at the printer's. He reports that he will shortly leave for the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) but will leave instructions for them to be sent on. This may not be for another 2 weeks due to the scale of the print job. He tells Keltie that he hopes Sir Archibald...
Dates: 22 May 1882
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence from Captain Clarence Edward Dutton

Letter to the Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 26 August 1928

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L68
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Letter, 26 August 1928, Suffolk, Sir Donald Francis Tovey to the Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Description of finished articles for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Typescript copy.

Dates: 26 August 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letters to George Black from John Robinson, 1799-1801

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Identifier: Coll-16/VI
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John Robison wrote to George Black (fl1799-1801), the nephew of Joseph Black, regarding the publication of Joseph Black's lectures.


9 letters, chronologically arranged (1799-1801)

Dates: 1799-1801
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family

List entitled 'To Whom Paper on Grazing and Agrestic Customs are to be sent', 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/215
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List entitled 'To Whom Paper on Grazing and Agrestic Customs are to be sent' composed of a list of seventy seven names and the date on which the paper was sent, and in some cases the places where the people live. Amongst the people listed are John Francis Campbell of Islay, Lord Archibald Campbell, Lord Colin Campbell, Queen Victoria and Sheriff Alexander Nicolson.

Dates: 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Manuscripts, 1916-1964

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Identifier: BAI 1/13
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manuscripts of published and unpublished works, with accompanying notes and revisions

Dates: 1916-1964
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie

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