Plains
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Bison, Canada, 1870s-1930s
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Identifier: Coll-1434/3412
Scope and Contents
Illustration of a bison skewering a fox with one of its horns on the plains in Canada.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Eland, 1870s-1930s
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Identifier: Coll-1434/3141
Scope and Contents
Photograph of two Eland antelopes on the plains in southern Africa in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Flat Top Thorn Tree, 1870s-1930s
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Identifier: Coll-1434/3275
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a flat top thorn tree on the savannah in [Africa] in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Lecture on 'The Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles', 1884
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Identifier: Coll-74/7/1
Scope and Contents
Notes for 5 lectures on 'The Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles' given to the Royal Institution in 1884, along with printed abstracts. Sir Archibald Geikie focused on geological formations around the British Isles, with comparisons from European and North American locations, looking at the materials of which they are composed and the processes which went into their creation.
Dates:
1884
Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', late 19th century
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Identifier: Coll-74/9/1
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
late 19th century