Geography
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Booklet: 'Geographical Evolution', 1879
Printed booklet by Sir Archibald Geikie, entitled 'Geographical Evolution' and containing the text of a lecture given to the Royal Geographical Society on 24 March 1879 and taken from 'Proceedings of the Royal Society and Monthly Record of Geography', July 1879.
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Scandanavian and Danish geologists, 1876-1906
The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Scandanavian and Danish geologists sub-series includes letters from:
- Waldemar Christofer Brögger (1889-1902)
- Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (1882-1904)
- Hans Henrik Reusch (1880-1906)
- Jakob Johannes Sederholm (1899-1906)
- Thorvaldur Thoroddsen (1896-1906)
Correspondence: Sir John Stuart Keltie to Herbert Kynaston, 1867-1916
The Correspondence: Sir John Stuart Keltie to Herbert Kynaston sub-series consists of:
- 24 letters, alphabetically arranged (1867-1916)
Correspondence: WA Herdman to Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1872-1900
The Correspondence: WA Herdman to Joseph Dalton Hooker sub-series consists of:
- 33 letters, alphabetically arranged (1872-1900)
Lecture on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', 1886
Notes for 4 lectures on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', given to the Royal Institution in 1886. Sir Archibald Geikie looked at the emergence of types of geological formations against a geological timeframe and how they have been affected by various processes, especially the action of volcanoes and materials produced by them, within the natural world. He used examples from numerous locations from different parts of the British Isles.
Lectures on American geological history, c1879
Notes and text for seven lectures looking at the geological history of the American continent, looking at specific locations therein, based partly on results from American survey work. These locations were related to to other places around the world, particularly in Britain and Europe. A variety of geological formations were looked at, including that of the continent itself, considering the materials which make them up and the geological timeframe.