Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-74/11/3/51
• Dates of Creation:03 June 1861
• Name of Creator:
  Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  1 letter

• Scope and Content

  Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay complaining that the proofs of 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes' obviously arrived too late for him to make any meaningful comment and that the sensitive information about the School of Mines contained in personal letters, which he had lent to George Wilson, had been published without his input or consent.

• Archivist's Note

  None

  Sarah Higgins 20 December 2000

• Subjects

  Book Proposals

  Criticism, Textual

• Personal Names

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

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

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

• Corporate Names

  Government School of Mines and of Science as Applied to the Arts (1851-)