Letter to Robert Boog-Watson from Sir Archibald Geikie

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-74/11/4/2
• Dates of Creation:20 November 1862
• Name of Creator:
  Geikie, Archibald, Sir (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  1 letter

• Scope and Content

  Letter to Robert Boog-Watson from Sir Archibald Geikie thanking him for his gift of figs and telling him that his diet is currently restricted due to ill health. He reports on a difficult visit from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay. He discusses the geological unconformity of the south end of the Isle of Bute and includes a sketch cross-section.

• Archivist's Note

  possible bibliographic reference Boog-Watson, paper on Norwegian drift

  Sarah Higgins 23 January 2001

• Subjects

  Diseases

  Geological Cross Sections

  Unconformities (Geology)

• Personal Names

  Boog-Watson, Robert, fl1862 (clergyman and zoologist)

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

  Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist)

• Geographical Names

  Isle of Bute Buteshire Scotland