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Notes and text for five lectures on geology. Sir Archibald Geikie placed civilisation, religion and mythology in the context of geological development, looking at geolgical formations and the processes and materials involved in their creation.

Scope and Contents Account by Alexander Carmichael of a fishing trip around Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] with accompanying place-name notes, descriptions and stories. Carmichael notes geographical features such as high points, caves, rocks or arches; archaeological sites such as dùns or graveyards; places people have used for looking after livestock or catching birds and fish, noting breeding grounds or habits of some birds; and sea-faring items such as the conditions of the sea or navigation techniques. One...

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Correspondence from C.L. Pekeris to Edward Appleton, dated 1938-1939. The material mainly regarding Appleton and Weekes's note in Nature. It includes a copy of Pekeris's paper on similar subject from 1936, a note of meetings and papers on tides, and correspondence from S. Chapman, 1938 and G.I. Taylor, 1939, on the Krakatoa wave.

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Correspondence from D.F. Martyn to Edward Appleton, dated 1946. The correspondence is mainly regarding a paper by Martyn on Solar tides, submitted to Appleton for communication to the Royal Society. The material includes comments on Martyn's paper by W.J.G. Beynon 1947, and an enthusiastic letter by S. Chapman, 1946 and Appleton's notes on papers by Martyn on atmospheric tides, given at a meeting of the Mixed Commission on the Ionosphere, 1948.

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Correspondence from K. Weekes, dated 1937 and 1939. The material includes a manuscript report by Weekes for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, on ‘An Investigation of the E-region of the Ionosphere', endorsed I Approved Rutherford Oct. 12/1937'. Ernest Rutherford died on 19 October 1937.

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The Correspondence: Joseph Wilson Lowry to HR Mill sub-series consists of:

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A printed tide table for London in 1693.

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‘Lunar tides in the upper atmosphere'. The material consists of a draft for a slide lecture, no date, c.1936-1949.

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Manuscript drafts for a paper or papers on tides, almost all by Edward Appleton, but some in K. Weekes's hand, no date, c.1936-1949.

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Manuscript notes and narratives by Edward Appleton on tides, no date, c.1936-1949.