Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour

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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour telling him that he has been awarded the Macdougall-Brisbane prize by the Royal Society [of Edinburgh] for his memoir on the old red sandstone of western Europe which was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society [of Edinburgh] in 1877-1878. The prize will be announced at the Society's meeting on the 07 July 1879 and awarded at the year's concluding meeting on 21 July 1879.

• Old Red Sandstone
• Prizes
• Prize Giving
• Professional Recognition

• Balfour | John Hutton | 1808-1884 | professor of botany, University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh
• Geikie | Sir | Archibald | 1835-1924 | professor of geology, University of Edinburgh

• Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1783-: | scientific society | Edinburgh (Scotland)