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Geological Terminology

 Subject

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Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Italian, Spanish and Portuguese geologists, 1871-1907

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/14/4
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Italian, Spanish and Portuguese geologists sub-series includes letters from:


  1. Giovanni Capellini (1886-1904).
  2. WP Jervis (1882-1889).
  3. Giuseppe De Lorenzo (1901-1906).
  4. Gaetno Platania (1893-1906).
Dates: 1871-1907
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (European geologists)

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from P.A.M Chalmers, 19 May 1882

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/1/14
Scope and Contents

Chalmers writes regarding the arrangements to take charge of a geological station in Aberdeen, in connection with Professor Alleyne Nicholson. Nicholson will be unable to take charge of the station that year, but he is willing to do so the following year. In the meantime, Ewart is to begin running the station himself, and to send Chalmers a statement of receipt and expenditure.

Dates: 19 May 1882
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1875-1887