Derbyshire (England)

Scope and Contents Photograph of men using a cattle dipper in Darbyshire to clean cattle in the early 20th century.

Scope and Contents Drawings and notes on the geology of parts of Scotland (including Edinburgh, Arran, Mull and Islay) of parts of England and also of Pomeroy, Ireland. References are made to Plymouth limestone, Skye granite, toadstones in Derbyshire and papers on raised beaches at Loch Carron.

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Scope and Contents Photograph of the head of a typical Jersey Bull named "Glorious Lad" which was owned by Captain Gisborne, Allestree, Derby.

Scope and Contents Photographs of the farmers of County Meath going to the 'covert at a meet of the Meath Hounds' after ignoring 'a Sinn Fein order directing them not to allow hunting over their land'; and of a boy, Ralph Chamberlain, the son of a Derbyshire farmer with a young bull that he's trained as a mount and for draught purposes to work the farm in the early 20th century.

Scope and Contents Photograph of two Jersey heifer calves - "Doreen" and "Maisonette Blanche" who received two firsts at the Staffordshire County Show in 1904 and were owned by Captain L. G. Gisborne, Allestree Hall, Derby.

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.

Scope and Contents Photograph of a South Devon shearling ram that won second prize at the Royal Show in Derby in 1921. It was owned by Mr. W. Hawke of Cornwall.