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Iceland

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Iceland

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Scandanavian and Danish geologists, 1876-1906

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/14/2
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Scandanavian and Danish geologists sub-series includes letters from:


  1. Waldemar Christofer Brögger (1889-1902)
  2. Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (1882-1904)
  3. Hans Henrik Reusch (1880-1906)
  4. Jakob Johannes Sederholm (1899-1906)
  5. Thorvaldur Thoroddsen (1896-1906)
Dates: 1876-1906

Lecture on 'The Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles', 1884

 Item
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