Papers and Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924) after 1851

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Papers and Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924) after 1851

13 boxes (2 linear metres); 1 photo album.

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Royal Society (Great Britain)

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The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge began in 1645 when a group of eminent British thinkers started to meet regularly in London to discuss the new, experimental philosophies of science. Though the English Civil War and the Cromwellian Protectorate interrupted its meetings, the Society was formally constituted in 1660. Two years later King Charles II granted the Society its first charter. A second royal charter was granted in 1663 when the Society was given its official nam...

Edinburgh university

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Robert Burns Young was born in 1874. He was a graduate of Edinburgh University. He took the degree of M.A. and he also took the degree of M.D. His publications include The life and work of George William Stow, South African geologist and ethnologist (1908) and The Banket: a study of the auriferous conglomerates of the Witwatersrand and the associated rocks (1917). From the guide to the The Young Medals, 1899-1935, (Edinburgh University Library) ...

Geological society of London

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Geological Survey of Great Britain

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The Geological Department of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland was set up in 1832 and in 1845 it was incorporated as the Geological Survey of Ireland in the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1905 responsibility for it was transferred to the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction in Dublin. The Reords pertaining to Northern Ireland were transferred to Belfast in 11921 and maintained by the Ordnance Survey. The Geological Survey of Northern Ireland was established in 194...

Geological Survey of Scotland

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Geikie, Archibald, 1835-1924

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Archibald Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835. He was educated at Edinburgh High School and the University of Edinburgh. In 1855, he joined the Geological Survey of Scotland, becoming its director in 1867. Between 1871 and 1882, he was professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh, and from 1882 until his retirement in 1901, served as director general of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Geikie did much to further the study of glacial deposits in Scotland...

Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871

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British geologist. From the description of Papers, 1857 and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35230784 English geologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Folkestone, to an unnamed correspondent, 1870 Sept. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612797 Geologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, 1847 July 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872039 Ro...