Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-74/11/8/66
• Dates of Creation:18 May 1875
• Name of Creator:
  Bristow, Henry William, 1817-1889 (geologist)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  1 letter

• Scope and Content

  Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry William Bristow thanking him for his gift of a copy of his work Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart. : based on his journals and letters with notices of his scientific contemporaries and a sketch of the rise and growth of Palaeozoic geology in Britain, ( 1875) . He hopes that the publication will not reopen the historical controversy between Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and Adam Sedgwick.

• Archivist's Note

  None

  Sarah Higgins 26 June 2001

• Subjects

  Biography

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  Social Interaction

• Personal Names

  Bristow, Henry William, 1817-1889 (geologist)

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

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

  Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist and professor of geology, University of Cambridge)