silurian
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Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', late 19th century
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Identifier: Coll-74/9/1
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Notes for 6 lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', encompasing a wide variety of related subjects. Sir Archibald Geike looked at various geological periods and how both the areas occupied by land and water changed over time. He looked at the creation of many geological formations, at the materials they were composed of and the processes involved, including the infleunce of different elements within the natural world. He used as examples numerous locations, mostly within the British Isles but...
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late 19th century
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- Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 8
- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 2
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 2
- Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist and professor of geology, University of Cambridge) 2
- Albert, 1819-1861 (Prince Consort of Queen Victoria) 1
- Allston, Washington, 1779-1843 (American painter and poet) 1
- Barrande, Joachim, 1799-1883 (Geologist and Paleontologist) 1
- Bartholomew Ltd (c1850-:) 1
- Bigelow, John Prescott, 1797-1872 (American politician) 1
- Brown, Robert, 1773-1858 (Botanist and paleobotanist) 1
- Buckley, Samuel Botsford, 1809-1884 (American botanist, geologist, and naturalist) 1
- Calhoun, John Caldwell, 1782-1850 ( American statesman, seventh vice president of the United States) 1
- Clarke, Reverend William Branwhite, 1798-1878 (Anglican clergyman and geologist, New South Wales (Australia)) 1
- Cotting , John Ruggles, 1783-1867 (American chemist, geologist and educator) 1
- Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879 (American Democratic politician and diplomat ) 1
- Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 1
- Dewey, Orville, 1794-1882 (American Unitarian minister) 1
- Dickens, Charles John Huffam, 1812-1870 (novelist and journalist) 1
- Dutton, Capt Clarence Edward, 1841?1912 (American geologist, United States Geological Survey) 1
- Emmons, Ebenezer, 1799-1863 (American geologist and mountaineer) 1
- Falconer, Hugh, 1808-1865 (palaeontologist and botanist) 1
- Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) 1
- Geological Society of London (1807-:) 1
- Geological Survey of Ireland 1
- Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843-1918 (American geologist) 1
- Hall, James, 1811-1898 (American geologist and paleontologist) 1
- Hargraves, Edward Hammond, 1816-1891 (Australian gold mining pioneer) 1
- Harper Collins (1819-) 1
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | astronomer) 1
- Holbrook, Amory , 1820-1866 (American attorney and politician ) 1
- Holland, Sir Henry, 1788-1873 (physician) 1
- Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865 (professor of botany, University of Glasgow) 1
- Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 1
- Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, 1769-1859 (German naturalist, geologist and explorer) 1
- Lawrence, Abbott, 1792-1855 (American businessman, politician, and philanthropist) 1
- Legaré, Hugh Swinton, 1797-1843 (American lawyer, diplomat and politician) 1
- Little, Brown and Company (American publishing company) 1
- Merivale, Herman, 1806-1874 (under secretary of state for India) 1
- Murchison, Charlotte, 1788-1869 (nee Hougin, geologist, wife of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison) 1
- Murchison, JH, fl1854 1
- Napier, Charles, Admiral Sir, 1786-1860 (British Naval Officer) 1
- Newberry, John Strong, 1822-1892 (American geologist and palaeontologist) 1
- Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 (English zoologist and ornithologist) 1
- Nicholson, Henry Alleyne, 1844-1899 (professor of natural history, University of St Andrews) 1
- Nolan, J, fl1898 (worked with the Geological Survey of Ireland) 1
- Oakes, William, 1799-1848 (American botanist) 1
- Orbigny, Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d', 1802-1857 (French naturalist) 1
- Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 (English biologist) 1
- Peach, 1800-1886 (naturalist and geologist) 1
- Peach, Benjamin Neeve, 1842-1926 (geologist) 1
- Perry, John, fl1895-1896 (scientist) 1
- Phillips, John, 1800-1874 (Geologist ) 1
- Potter, Alonzo, 1800-1865 (American bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States ) 1
- Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859 (American historian and Hispanist) 1
- Pusey, Edward Bouverie, 1800-1882 (Anglican Cleric, Professor of Hebrew, Oxford) 1
- Royal College of Science, Dublin (Ireland) (1865-:) 1
- Royal Institution of Great Britain (1799-:) 1
- Russell, John, 1st Earl Russell, 1792-1878 (British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) 1
- Sabine, Edward, Sir 1
- Scott, Robert Henry, Robert Henry 1833-1916 (meteorologist) 1
- Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil, 1824-1902 (geologist and director of the geological survey of Canada) 1
- Sowerby , James de Carle, 1787-1871 (Mineralogist, botanist and illustrator) 1
- Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854 (British naturalist, conchologist and artist) 1
- Sue, Eugène (Marie-Joseph), 1804-1857 1
- United States Geological Survey 1
- University of St Andrews (1411-:) 1
- University of Toronto (1827-:) 1
- Verneuil, Edouard de, 1805-1873 (French geologist) 1
- Warburton, Henry, 1784-1858 (Merchant, Politician and Scientist) 1
- Wilde, Richard Henry, 1789-1847 (American representative and lawyer from Georgia) 1
- Wiley & Putnam (American book publisher) 1
- Wood, Searles Valentine, 1830-1884 (geologist) 1
- Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874 (American naturalist and anatomist) 1 + ∧ less
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