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Ireland

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Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence from Joseph Beete Jukes and family, 1864-1871

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/8
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence from Joseph Beete Jukes and family series consists of:


  1. 18 letters, chronologically arranged (1864-1871)
Dates: 1864-1871

Geological Survey notebook 'O O', 1891

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/1/5
Scope and Contents

Drawings and notes on the geology, largely of Ireland but also of Ayrshire. References are made to volcanic rock at Lizard and silurian.

Dates: 1891

Geological Survey notebooks, 1877-1900

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Identifier: Coll-74/1
Scope and Contents

The series of Geological Survey notebook consists of:


  1. 10 volumes, chronologically arranged (1877-1900)
Dates: 1877-1900

Lecture notes, late 19th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/9
Scope and Contents

The Lecture notes series consists of:


  1. Notes for lectures on British geology.
Dates: late 19th century

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

Lecture on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', 1886

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Identifier: Coll-74/7/2
Scope and Contents

Notes for 4 lectures on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', given to the Royal Institution in 1886. Sir Archibald Geikie looked at the emergence of types of geological formations against a geological timeframe and how they have been affected by various processes, especially the action of volcanoes and materials produced by them, within the natural world. He used examples from numerous locations from different parts of the British Isles.

Dates: 1886

Lectures on American geological history, c1879

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Identifier: Coll-74/6/4
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Notes and text for seven lectures looking at the geological history of the American continent, looking at specific locations therein, based partly on results from American survey work. These locations were related to to other places around the world, particularly in Britain and Europe. A variety of geological formations were looked at, including that of the continent itself, considering the materials which make them up and the geological timeframe.

Dates: c1879

Letter from George William Lamplugh, 1903

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Identifier: Coll-74/3/12
Scope and Contents

George William Lamplugh (1859-1926) wrote to Sir Archibald Geikie on 14 January 1904 regarding 'Pleostocene changes of level in our Islands'. He was glad that Geikie was piecing together scattered information on the subject and refers to his own research in areas of England and Ireland.

Dates: 1903

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Captain Clarence Edward Dutton, 05 March 1880

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/1
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton asking him to suggest 100 possible British and Irish recipients for gratuitous copies of his monograph on the volcanic geology of Utah: Report on the Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah, with Atlas, ( 1880) Includes a pencil list of possible recipients.

Dates: 05 March 1880

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John George Bartholomew, 06 May 1898

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/29
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John George Bartholomew concerning the publication of a map of agricultural land-use and geology of Ireland at a scale of 10 miles to the inch. Bartholomew reports that the production of this map would not be a commercial viability unless the sale to schools was guaranteed, because Edward Hull already had a similar map on the market. He agrees to estimate the cost of production.

Dates: 06 May 1898