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 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown, cAugust 1855 - 12 June 1921

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown sub-series consists of:


  1. 73 letters to Sir Archibald Geikie, alphabetically arranged (1855-1921)
Dates: cAugust 1855 - 12 June 1921

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour, 30 March 1878

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

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour asking if he can procure an obituary for Professor Robert Harkness for the Royal Society [of Edinburgh]. He arranges to talk about Geikie's paper on metamorphic rocks when they meet.

Dates: 30 March 1878

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

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