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Orkney Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Journal of a Tour to Orkney in 1799, 1799

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1373/6
Scope and Contents

Informal writeup of approximately 100 pages of Jameson's trip to Orkney in 1799, with loose plant life, pressed between sheets at the rear.

Dates: 1799

Notes on Dumfriesshire and the Alps, 1802

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1373/7
Scope and Contents

Volume contains notes on the geology of Dumfriesshire, dated by Professor Sweet to 1802, and an outline of the writeup of the geology of the Alps by 'Saussures', probably Swiss colleague Horace Benedict de Saussure (1740-1799).

Dates: 1802