| Description | Geological tracts belonging to George Bellas Greenough, mainly on the subject of Scotland and Ireland, comprising:
1) Milne, David, "Geological Account of Roxburghshire", offprint from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol XV (1843), pp433-502
2) Allan, Thomas, "On the rocks in the vicinity of Edinburgh", offprint from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol VI (1812), pp2-31.
3) Seymour, Webb, "An account of observations made by Lord Webb Seymour and Professor Playfair, upon some geological appearances in Glen Tilt and the adjacent country", offprint from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol 7 (1815), pp3-75.
4) Weaver, Thomas, "On the geological relations of the South of Ireland", Transactions of the Geological Society, S2-5 (1837), pp1-68.
5) Nimmo, Alexander, "On the application of the science of geology to the purposes of practical navigation", offprint from Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol XIV (1825).
6) Caldcleugh, Alexander, "Some account of the volcanic eruption of Coseguina in the Bay of Fonseca, on the Western Coast of Central America", offprint from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1836), London: Richard Taylor (1836).
7) Ritter, Carl, "Über räumliche Anordnugnen auf der aussenseite des Erdballs und ihre Functionen im Entwicklungsgange der Geschicten", Berlin: Ferd Dimmler, (1837). Annotated in pencil by George Bellas Greenough, includes two pages of mss notes.
8) Hopkins, William, "On the motion of glaciers", offprint from the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol VIII, (1844). |
| CustodialHistory | Tract volume previously in Library collection. Contains mss notes by George Bellas Greenough, therefore transferred to Archive, August 2021 |