Great Britain

Lecture notes, 1884-1886

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Identifier: Coll-74/7

Scope and Contents

The Lecture notes series consists of:

Notes and printed abstracts.

Dates: 1884-1886

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie

Lecture notes, late 19th century

Series

Identifier: Coll-74/9

Scope and Contents

The Lecture notes series consists of:

Notes for lectures on British geology.

Dates: late 19th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Lecture notes

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from A Delesse, 13 November 1872

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/1/11

Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from A Delesse thanking him for sending the third edition of his work 'Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain'. He goes on to ask some questions connected directly with illustrations in the work. He also mentions Ramsay's interest, his own work 'Lithology of the bottom of the ocean'.

Dates: 13 November 1872

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Letters to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 31 October 1883

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/15

Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton expressing regret that he was unable to vacation in Germany and France during the month of October as he had anticipated. He thanks Geikie for his papers on the pre-cambrian, reports that American geologists are also considering this problem and surmises that American exposures of pre-cambrian fosseliferous rocks are more extensive than those in Britain.

Dates: 31 October 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence from Captain Clarence Edward Dutton

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 21 July 1884

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/16

Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton telling him that he is undertaking field work in New Mexico. He is concentrating on the plateau country aided by good topographic maps of the region. He tells Geikie that there are landforms and cliffs similar to those in Utah and Arizona with exposures of Triassic, Permain and Cretaceous strata. These are overlain with evidence of volcanic activity, ancient basalt of 50-200 feet depth on the plateau. Young basalt, in vast lava...

Dates: 21 July 1884

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence from Captain Clarence Edward Dutton

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

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/1

Scope and Contents

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