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Professional Recognition

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Subject Source: Local sources
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour, 27 June 1879

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/9
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour telling him that he has been awarded the Macdougall-Brisbane prize by the Royal Society [of Edinburgh] for his memoir on the old red sandstone of western Europe which was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society [of Edinburgh] in 1877-1878. The prize will be announced at the Society's meeting on the 07 July 1879 and awarded at the year's concluding meeting on 21 July 1879.

Dates: 27 June 1879