Ireland
Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:
Irish Bacon Cuts, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of three different types of Irish bacon cuts hanging on a wall: side of Dublin cut; Irish cut shoulder; and Irish cut middle in the early/mid 20th century.
Lecture notes, late 19th century
The Lecture notes series consists of:
- Notes for lectures on British geology.
Lecture on 'The Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles', 1884
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.
Lecture on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', 1886
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.
Lectures on American geological history, c1879
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.
Legend about the wren and the Irish army, 4 June 1887
Letter from George William Lamplugh, 1903
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.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Captain Clarence Edward Dutton, 05 March 1880
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.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John George Bartholomew, 06 May 1898
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.
Memoir of Henry O' Donnell, Count of La Bisbal, c 1812-1850
This appears to be a biography of a general of the Spanish Army, Henry Joseph O' Donnell y Anatar, Count of La Bisbal. It is a manuscript with an unnamed author that has factual inconsistencies. For example, the memooir claims that Count 'Abisbal' was born in Andalucia in 1770, although most records indicate that he was born in San Sebastián in 1769.