Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist)
Dates
- Existence: 1785 - 1873
Dates and places
Born Dent, Yorkshire; School, Sedbergh; admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge 1803; matriculated 1804; B.A. 1808; M.A. 1811; Hon.LL.D. 1866; Fellow of Trinity 1810-73; Vice-Master, 1844-62; Senior Proctor 1827-8; Woodwardian Professor of Geology 1818-73. Canon of Norwich Cathedral.
Geographical areas
Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Legal status / Nationality
British
Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:
Adam Sedgwick: Correspondence to T. Whistler, Duke of [?] and Cordelia Whewell, 1824-1873
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Adam Sedgwick: Letters and notes
Copies of letters from Adam Sedgwick to Miss Duncan and Mrs Parker; notes and letters concerning Life and letters of Adam Sedgwick (Cambridge, 1890)
Adam Sedgwick: Letters and Papers
Adam Sedgwick: letters to William Ainger
Correspondence between Adam Sedgwick and William Ainger, with a summary of contents including information about their relationship.
Adam Sedgwick: Miscellaneous Letters
Archives of the Department of Geology and the Woodwardian and Sedgwick Museums, 1731 - 1987
The earliest records relate to Woodward's will, estates and the administration of his fossil collection. From the 1880s, administrative records of the burgeoning Department of Geology, its teaching, examining, and students, survive alongside papers for the lengthy project to build the Sedgwick Museum. The archives also include the papers of Professor T. McKenny Hughes, Woodwardian Professor 1873-1917.
Charles Lesingham Smith: Correspondence to Sir George Humphry, Adam Sedgwick and unidentified correspondent, 1842-1873
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Collections made by J.W. Clark in preparation for J.W. Clark and T.M. Hughes, Life and letters of Adam Sedgwick (Cambridge, 1890), 1864-1890 (Circa)
243 folios
Collections made by J.W. Clark in preparation for J.W. Clark and T.M. Hughes, Life and letters of Adam Sedgwick (Cambridge, 1890), 1889-1890
388 folios
Collections made by J.W. Clark in preparation for J.W. Clark and T.M. Hughes, Life and letters of Adam Sedgwick (Cambridge, 1890), 1850 (Circa)
352 folios
Correspondence from Adam Sedgwick to R.P. Buddicom: Letters on monument to William Ainger, 18 May 1841-26 Jan. 1842 (Circa)
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Correspondence from Charles Kingsley to Adam Sedgwick, 31 July 1863 (Circa)
Letters mostly to Clark, with some to his wife Frances Clark (d.1908), Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) and others, mainly routine in nature, and collected for their autograph value. Another volume, containing letters of scientists, was not acquired. The original numbering in each volume has been retained; in this catalogue the letters are grouped by subject.
Correspondence from Henry H. Milman, Dean of St Paul's, to Adam Sedgwick, 28 Nov. 1848-29 Oct. 1855 (Circa)
Letters mostly to Clark, with some to his wife Frances Clark (d.1908), Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) and others, mainly routine in nature, and collected for their autograph value. Another volume, containing letters of scientists, was not acquired. The original numbering in each volume has been retained; in this catalogue the letters are grouped by subject.
Correspondence from Sir Frederick Pollock to Adam Sedgwick, 29 Mar. 1850-25 July 1850
Letters mostly to Clark, with some to his wife Frances Clark (d.1908), Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) and others, mainly routine in nature, and collected for their autograph value. Another volume, containing letters of scientists, was not acquired. The original numbering in each volume has been retained; in this catalogue the letters are grouped by subject.
Correspondence from William Conor Magee, Bishop of Peterborough, to Adam Sedgwick, 7 Jan. 1869-3 June 1871
Letters mostly to Clark, with some to his wife Frances Clark (d.1908), Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) and others, mainly routine in nature, and collected for their autograph value. Another volume, containing letters of scientists, was not acquired. The original numbering in each volume has been retained; in this catalogue the letters are grouped by subject.
Correspondence of and about Adam Sedgwick, 1851-1873
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Jane(t) Mary Douglas: Extract from letter to Adam Sedgwick
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Journals and Sketchbooks, 1818 - 1846
Comprising numbered and unnumbered field notebooks and sketchbooks. The notebooks include details of: daily excursions and geological features; places visited including working mines and quarries; specimens collected or purchased; expenses; health matters; and include some social history commentary. The sketchbooks include pencil, ink and watercolour stratigraphic sketches of places visited.
Letter from 1st Baron Overstone to Adam Sedgwick, 17 Jan. 1867
Sedgwick's recommendation is not necessary for claims of Professor H[?]
Letter from 1st Earl Russell to Adam Sedgwick, 8 May 1871
Decided to place a memorial bust of 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne in Westminster Abbey; a committee will invite subscriptions; will Sedgwick join the committee?
Letter from 8th Duke of Argyll to Adam Sedgwick, 28 July 1869
Domestic news; he will send Salter's petition to Gladstone; Sedgwick's quiet residence at Norwich; his is thankful for 'the late deliverance out of a constitutional crisis of a very dangerous kind.'
Letter from 8th Duke of Argyll to Adam Sedgwick, 1851 (Circa)
'Worried to death by my jury work', so he has not called on Sedgwick
Letter from A. Sedgwick to W.G. Searle, with note of questions, 1840-1872 (Circa, undated)
Letter from Adam Sedgwick to William Selwyn, 11 Nov. 1858
Death of George Peacock, Dean of Ely: 'after the immediate members of my own family ... the oldest and dearest friend I had in this world. Who is there to fill his place at Ely?' and on University Commission; glad funeral is to be at Ely
Letter from Anne Thackeray to Adam Sedgwick
Thanks for a photograph of him
Additional filters:
- ARCHON code (for CUL materials)
- Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 48
- Royal Greenwich Observatory (GBR/0180) 11
- University Archives (GBR/0265) 5
- Type
- Archival Object 61
- Collection 7
- Subject
- Geology 4
- Maps 2
- Notebooks 2
- Rocks 2
- Atlantic Ocean 1
- Basic study subjects 1
- Collections 1
- Earth sciences 1
- Field work 1
- Fossils 1
- Geological mapping 1
- Illustrations 1
- Museums 1
- Research work 1
- Science museums 1
- Scientific expeditions 1
- Scientific research 1
- Social history 1
- South Australia 1
- Stratigraphy 1
- Teaching 1
- Teaching practice 1
- Teaching resources 1
- Telegraphy 1
- Telescopes 1
- University curriculum 1
- Vesuvius 1 + ∧ Less