Skip to main content

London (England)

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = England

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Lectures on Geology, 1832-1846

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/8 (Lyell 8)
Scope and Contents Charles Lyell lectured at King's College London in 1832 and again in 1833. He then gave a single course at the Royal Institution in 1833. For the latter courses, he re-used some material from his first course, and his notes can be mixed between both sets. The records suggest two stages in development - longer, prose like text is written on larger sheets of paper. Page numbering is inconsistent, and sections are crossed out, indicating they are rejected. These larger sheets of text are then...
Dates: 1832-1846
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Publication proofs and lecture syllabuses, 1867-1881

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/8
Scope and Contents

The Publication proofs and lecture syllabuses series consists of:


  1. lecture syllabuses, 1867-1869
  2. publication proofs, 1879 and 1881.
Dates: 1867-1881
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie

Royal Institution of Great Britain: Syllabus of a Course of Three Lectures on the Origin of Land-Surfaces by Archibald Geikie, FRS, 1867-1868

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/8/2
Scope and Contents

Syllabus for a series of 3 lectures Sir Archibald Geikie gave to The Royal Insitution of Great Britain in 1869, broadly focusing on valleys, hills and mountains, erosion, geological structure and related subjects.

Dates: 1867-1868
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Publication proofs and lecture syllabuses