Papers of James Geikie and his family 1872-1917

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Papers of James Geikie and his family 1872-1917

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Edinburgh University Library

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Jack | Robert Logan | 1845-1921 | geologist

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Barrie, James Mathew

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Nansen, Fridtjof

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F157 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001440.0x000064 Fridtjof Nansen was born on 10 October 1861 at Store Froen, near Oslo. He studied zoology at the University of Christiania [Oslo] and made his first Arctic voyage in the sealer Viking to the East Coast of Greenland in 1882. Later in the year, he was appointed zoological curator at Bergen Museum, where he spent the next...

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Ramsay, A. C. (Andrew Crombie), 1814-1891

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Newington District Registrar's Office | Edinburgh (Scotland)

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Geological Survey of Great Britain | 1835-: | government research institution

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Geikie | Mary Dorothea | b1893 | daughter of James Geikie

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Prestwich, Joseph, 1812-1896

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Peach, B. N. (Benjamin Nieve), 1842-1926

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The Straits Times | 1845-: | newspaper | Singapore

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Skae | HM | fl1884 | member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain

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Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Sir, 1817-1911

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University of Edinburgh | 1583-: | university | Edinburgh (Scotland)

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Times | c1787-: | newspaper publisher | London (England)

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Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843-1918

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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882

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Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887

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