Professional Criticism
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Articles and Reviews, 1913-1956
Series
Identifier: BAI 1/8
Scope and Contents
cuttings, offprints, manuscripts and publications
Dates:
1913-1956
Correpondence relating to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison's dispute with Adam Sedgwick about Silurian classification, c1852
Series
Identifier: Coll-74/10/3
Scope and Contents
The correpondence relating to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison's dispute with Adam Sedgwick about Silurian classification consists of:
- correspondence
- notes and related papers
Dates:
c1852
Correspondence from Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1874-1884
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/1
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence from Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden sub-series consists of:
- 51 letters, chronologically arranged (1874-1884)
- presscuttings, photographs, notices and notes
Dates:
1874-1884
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: American geologists, 1878-1907
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/13/1
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: American geologists sub-series consists of:
- 67 letters and postcards, alphabetically arranged (1878-1907).
Dates:
1878-1907
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow, 11 April 1865
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/64
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow congratulating Geikie on his professorship and casting some criticisms at the selection procedure for the post.
Dates:
11 April 1865
Mr Whistons mistakes in his new theory, 3 April 1698
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [45]
Scope and Contents
A short critique of William Whiston's A New Theory of the Earth, from its Original to the Consummation of all Things, (1696) , intended to damn Cartesian astronomy and advance corollaries to Newtonian thought instead. He affirmed the truth of the flood narrative in Genesis, ascribing the deluge to the impact of a comet. Whiston had been converted to Newtonianism by a paper of David Gregory. At the foot of this document is an unrelated note, dated 6 Sept. 1708, to the...
Dates:
3 April 1698
Periodicals and cuttings, 1913-1943
Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/8/2
Scope and Contents
periodicals, including the Expository Times and the New Republic
press cuttings
press cuttings
Dates:
1913-1943
Reviews by John Baillie, 1917-1956
Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/8/1
Scope and Contents
Typescript reviews written by John Baillie
Dates:
1917-1956
Reviews of John Baillie's publications, 1929-1953
Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/8/3
Scope and Contents
articles, brochures and cuttings arranged by publication
Dates:
1929-1953