Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-74/11/3/29
• Dates of Creation:25 February 1860
• Name of Creator:
  MacMillan, Alexander, 1815-1896 (publisher)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  1 letter

• Scope and Content

  Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan with comment on the first 4 chapters of his Memoirs of Edward Forbes, ( 1861) and advice for future chapters. He suggests printing the book in Edinburgh. He comments that he does not expect any further opposition to the book fom Emily M Yelverton and has had further endorsements for the book from Thomas Henry Huxley and Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen.

• Archivist's Note

  None

  Sarah Higgins 18 December 2000

• Subjects

  Biography

  Book Proposals

• Personal Names

  Forbes, 1815-1854 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)

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

  Godwin-Austen, Robert Alfred Cloyne, 1808-1884 (foreign secretary of the Geological Society)

  Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (man of science)

  Jukes, 1811-1869 (director of the Geological Survey of Ireland)

  MacMillan, Alexander, 1815-1896 (publisher)

  Yelverton, Emily M, fl1860 (widow of Edward Forbes)