Ref NoLDGSL/839/137
TitleMurchison fieldbooks & diaries: Scotland
DateSep-Oct 1860
LevelItem
Extent1 volume
FormatDocument
DescriptionRoderick Impey Murchison, fieldbooks & diaries: Scotland.
"1860 3 the Lewis-Stornoway - Sir A Matheson + ? + deer stalking - ?Atheline (the Milbankes) Arisaig-Glen Finnan-Banavie, Pass of - Lord Breadalbane and he Black Mount - Loch Tay + sections - Dalnacardoch - Atholl + Glen Tilt - Pitlochry - Dunkeld- Excursion to Spittal of Glenshee - Edinbugh - Sir W Jardine - Comcockle Muir - Sections nr Annan"

7 Sep 1860: Stornoway Castle [Lewis Western Islands]; 8 Sep: Garrabast (p1) "On conglomerate of Lewis" (p7);
9 Sep: Episcopalian Church (p9);
10 Sep: Excursion with General Matheson to Barvas (p10). "Dalbeg" (p11);
11 Sep: "morsgail" (p14), "Deer Stalking with Angus" Little Loch Roag (p15), Scalaval (p16), Loch Langavat, Uig, Mealasval (p17);
12 Sep: Little Loch Roag (p19);
14 Sep: Stornoway Castle (p21), Harris (p23), ?Atheline (pp24-25);
17 Sep: Stornoway [Lewis] (p27), Shiant Islands (p28) sketch of Harris + Clisham (p29), Loch Seaforth (p30). Glenelg [Highlands] (p31), Arisaig (p33), Kinlochailort (p37), Glen Finnan (p39);
20 Sep: Ballahulish, Glencoe and Kingshouse (p41), Black Mount (p42), Loch tulla (p44), Black Mount (p45);
24 Sep: Tyndrum, Strath Fillan (p46), Killan, Loch Tay (p47), Glen Lyon [Tayside] (p48), Kinloch Rannoch (p51), Dalnacardoch (p52);
21 Sep 1860: Forest Lodge, Glen Tilt (p57). Blair Atholl-Dunkeld (p62);
28 Sep: Dunkeld (p64);
29 Sep: Spittal of Glenshee (p69), Blairgowrie to Dunkeld (p72);
30 Sep: Murthly (p73);
1 Oct: Dunkeld-Perth-Edinburgh (p75). Auchterarder, Dunblane (p76), Stirling-Edinburgh (p77);
2 Oct: Edinburgh, Calton Hill (p79) - Grange Road to the Pentland Hills, back by Bruntsfield links (p82). Lockerbie -Jardine Hall (p84), Comcockle Muir (p85), Corsehill (p87);
4 Oct: Annan, Dalton (p88), Brydkirk (p89);
5 Oct: by Carlisle to London (p92), 1856: notes on Red Sandstone and MacCulloch (p95), Loch Maree [Highlands] (p97), Loch Broom (p105), Itinerary ofa trip from Lockerbie via Lochmaben, Dalton, Brydekirk and Ecclefechan (p116).
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LanguageEnglish
ArchNoteDescription by John Thackray
CreatorNameMURCHISON | Sir | Roderick Impey | 1792-1871 | Baronet | geologist and geographer
Previous referenceLDGSL 839/N137
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/2MURCHISON; Sir; Roderick Impey (1792-1871); Baronet; geologist and geographer1792-1871
DS/UK/2372JARDINE; Sir; William; 7th baronet; naturalist
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