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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 20 January 1881

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/7
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton. He encloses a report by Clarence King and explains the poor quality of his own entry in this. He discusses the formation of the basaltic plateaux which are cut by the Grand Canyon in the light of some articles written by Geikie. He concludes that there are 2 models of volcanic eruption: The Mediterranean Type where many small eruptions concentrated in a small area produce cinder cones and the Rocky Mountain Type where few very...
Dates: 20 January 1881
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 Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 03 May 1882

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/10
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton telling Geikie that he has declined the invitation from the journal Nature to review Geikie's forthcoming publications, as he will shortly be leaving for the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) to do field work in preparation for a systematic study of the volcanic fields of California and Oregon. He recommends his colleague Grove Karl Gilbert for the task and asks Geikie if he will review his new monograph...
Dates: 03 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 Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 22 May 1882

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/12
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton apologising that he has only been able to send final proofs of his atlas sheets for Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District, ( 1882) at the current time. He apologises for being unable to review Geikie's forthcoing books due to his forthcoming field work in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) and pontificates that Grove Karl Gilbert will do a better job in the long run. He reports that Gilbert and...
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 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