Blair Atholl (Scotland)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George Barrow, 20 October 1888
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/26
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George Barrow concerning Geikie's wish to investigate the grounds for Barrow's assertion that the Loch Tay limestone and the Blair Atholl series are not on the same horizontal plane. He recommends that Geikie start his investigation at the Spital of Glenshee and recommends some accommodation there. Barrow lists the ascending stratigraphy which Geikie should observe, with additional notes on some of the apparant features. He offers to take Geikie over the...
Dates:
20 October 1888
Notebook No.256, 20 April 1869 - 10 September 1869
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/256
Scope and Contents
This dark green notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 20 April 1869 to 10 September 1869. Lyell starts in England and travels through Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria, with special attention to the Lake District. He then travels to Scotland, and from Edinburgh through Perthshire and the Highlands. Transcription note: This notebook was written by Charles, Mary and Arabella Buckley. The index is written entirely by...
Dates:
20 April 1869 - 10 September 1869
Photograph album showing people and locations in Perthshire
Item
Identifier: Coll-2942
Scope and Contents
This is an album containing 63 mounted and 14 laid in albumen print photographs dating primarily to the late 1850s and 1860s, which mainly depict community life, people and locations in the Blair Castle area of Perthshire. It also include some portraits, and a few photographs of Funchal and Pico Fort (São João Batista Fort), in Madeira.A label on the inner front cover has the owner’s name, William Stewart Arnott, who might have been a merchant in Perth. The identity of the...
Dates:
1850s-1860s