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Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
    Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H)
        Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown

Edinburgh University Library Special Collections Division

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour

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GB 0237 Sir Archibald Geikie Gen. 524/8/7

Date(s)

29 March 1873

Extent and medium of the unit of description

1

letter

Name of creator

Balfour | John Hutton | 1808-1884 | professor of botany, University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh

Scope and Content

Scope and Content

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour telling him that he has left fossil planty specimens from Palestine with the janitor, as he was not at the Senate meeting. The specimens include a petrified olive and a pertified fig.

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