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Mineralogy

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

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Annual Address by Thomas Sturrock, vice president, 1845

 Item
Identifier: Coll-43 ::: MS 2935.5
Scope and Contents

Annual Address by Thomas Sturrock, vice president of the Edinburgh Geological Society, looking at the development of geology and mineralogy, wider scientific developments and their relationship to religion, war and other issues.

Dates: 1845

Autograph Letter Signed from William Thomson to Cardinal Stefano Borgia in Rome, 13 August 1797

 Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0047
Scope and Contents

Autograph Letter Signed from William Thomson to Cardinal Stefano Borgia in Rome, discussing the properties of a newly-discovered flexible stone from Brazil (probably Itacolumite, a stone which is flexible when cut into thin strips, and which is found in Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is associated with the presence of diamonds.) and providing an Italian translation of part of James Hutton's paper on the subject. Letter in Italian, dated 13 August 1797.

Dates: 13 August 1797

Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Sir George Howard Darwin to Peter Martin Duncan, 1867-1899

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/14
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Sir George Howard Darwin to Peter Martin Duncan sub-series consists of:


  1. 74 letters to Sir Archibald Geikie, alphabetically arranged (1867-1899)
Dates: 1867-1899

Journal of My Tour in 1797, 1797

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1373/2
Scope and Contents

Journal of 116 pages relating to a trip taken by Jameson to Arran in June of 1797. Contains a sketch for a plate in his book, An Outline of the Mineralogy of the Shetland Islands and of the Island of Arran of 1798.

Dates: 1797

Lectures and Syllabus, 1882-1897

 Series
Identifier: Coll-99/1
Scope and Contents

The lectures and syllabus series consists of:


  1. examination papers
  2. lecture notes
  3. syllabus
Dates: 1882-1897

Lectures in Mineralogy, c1895

 Item
Identifier: Coll-99/1/1
Scope and Contents

Lectures given by James Geikie on mineralogy, covering areas including the form of minerals (crystals), their characteristics depending on light (colour, pleochromism, play of colours, iridescence, lustre, transparency, refraction, phosphorescence), characters depending on state of aggregation (hardness, tenacity, fracture), other characteristics (taste, odour, feel, electricity, magnetism, specific gravity) and their origins (solution, fusion, sublimation).

Dates: c1895

Letter from AJ Alexander to Joseph Black, 21 April 1773

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/58-63
Scope and Contents

Letter from AJ Alexander to Joseph Black regarding mineralogical experiments, yaws and including a journal of local rainfall.

Dates: 21 April 1773

Letter from JF Hermann to Joseph Black, 24 April 1780

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/97-98
Scope and Contents

Letter from JF Hermann to Joseph Black about mineralogy.

Dates: 24 April 1780

Minute Book No II, 27 August 1840 - 04 June 1842

 Item — Volume MS 2917.2: Series Coll-43/1
Identifier: Coll-43/1/2
Scope and Contents Notebook containing minutes of meetings. These include: details of membership including those which attended each meeting and the financial affairs of the Society. Annual reports for 1840 and 1841 are included and summarise the society's activities and finances for the year. Lists of names and addresses of all members are included. Geological questions discussed and conclusions reached are minuted. 4 meetings were spent discussing "Is the glacier theory of Agassiz applicable to...
Dates: 27 August 1840 - 04 June 1842

Minute Book No III, 07 July 1842 - 02 May 1850

 Item — Volume MS 2917.3: Series Coll-43/1
Identifier: Coll-43/1/3
Scope and Contents Notebook containing minutes of meetings. Membership details include: details of new and retiring members, those who attended each meeting and deaths. Newspaper obituaries for George Sanderson and Hugh Smith are pasted into the book. The financial affairs of the Society are reported, and a newspaper clipping with the annual report for 1847 included. Details of the development of the society library are minuted. Abstracts of member's papers are minuted, along with the resultant...
Dates: 07 July 1842 - 02 May 1850