Mineralogy
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Annual Address by Thomas Sturrock, vice president, 1845
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.
Autograph Letter Signed from William Thomson to Cardinal Stefano Borgia in Rome, 13 August 1797
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.
Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Sir George Howard Darwin to Peter Martin Duncan, 1867-1899
The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Sir George Howard Darwin to Peter Martin Duncan sub-series consists of:
- 74 letters to Sir Archibald Geikie, alphabetically arranged (1867-1899)
Journal of My Tour in 1797, 1797
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.
Lectures and Syllabus, 1882-1897
The lectures and syllabus series consists of:
- examination papers
- lecture notes
- syllabus
Lectures in Mineralogy, c1895
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).
Letter from AJ Alexander to Joseph Black, 21 April 1773
Letter from AJ Alexander to Joseph Black regarding mineralogical experiments, yaws and including a journal of local rainfall.
Letter from JF Hermann to Joseph Black, 24 April 1780
Letter from JF Hermann to Joseph Black about mineralogy.