Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry Walter Bates

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/31
• Dates of Creation:31 October 1874
• Name of Creator:
  Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 (naturalist, explorer and assistant secretary, Royal Geographical Society)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  1 letter

• Scope and Content

  Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry Walter Bates telling Geikie that has sent him a copy of an address by Sir Henry Rawlinson (not attached) which will give him information concerning Sir Roderick Impey Murchison's connection with the Royal Geographical Society. He gives an additional reference and promises further information will follow.

• Archivist's Note

  possible bibliographic reference:

  Rawlinson, Henry, address 1872 to Royal Geographical Society

  Murchison, Roderick Impey , 1865, address in vol 35 of the Royal Geographical Society's journal

  Sarah Higgins 19 June 2001

• Subjects

  Biography

• Personal Names

  Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 (naturalist, explorer and assistant secretary, Royal Geographical Society)

  Geikie, Archibald, Sir (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh)

  Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist)

  Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke, 1810-1895 (diplomat and Assyriologist)

• Corporate Names

  Royal Geographical Society (1830-:)