Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/9
• Dates of Creation:27 June 1879
• Name of Creator:
  Balfour, John Hutton, 1808-1884 (professor of botany, University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  1 letter

• Scope and Content

  Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour telling him that he has been awarded the Macdougall-Brisbane prize by the Royal Society [of Edinburgh] for his memoir on the old red sandstone of western Europe which was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society [of Edinburgh] in 1877-1878. The prize will be announced at the Society's meeting on the 07 July 1879 and awarded at the year's concluding meeting on 21 July 1879.

• Archivist's Note

  possible bibliographic reference:

  Geikie, Archibald: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1877-1878: Old Red Sandstone

  Sarah Higgins 11 September 2001

• Subjects

  Old Red Sandstone

  Prizes

  Prize Giving

  Professional Recognition

• Personal Names

  Balfour, John Hutton, 1808-1884 (professor of botany, University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh)

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

• Corporate Names

  Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-:)