Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet geologist

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Surname:	Murchison
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	Roderick Impey
Gender:	Male
Date:	1792-1871
Biography:	ODNB link for Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey (1792-1871), 1st Baronet geologist
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P146774 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P20685 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Roderick Impey Murchison

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1814-71: corresp and papers	Geological Society of London	LDGSL 838-900; M/A-Z	NRA 28354 Geological Soc
2	1815-71: corresp (150 items)	Wellcome Collection	MS.5220	NRA 36155
3	1817-71: corresp and papers	British Geological Survey Archives	IGS3, GSM1/126-27	NRA 16681 Murchison
4	c1820-71: corresp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 46125-28
5	1771-1935: personal and family corresp and papers	Edinburgh University Library, Heritage Collections	Coll/51
6	1829-44: notebooks, accounts and letters to his wife	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
7	1836: notebook	Cambridge University: Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences		See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
8	1827: maps and sections of Scottish rocks	London University: University College Department of Geology
9	1830-87: misc corresp and papers (48 items)	American Philosophical Society Library		See NUC MS 76-924
10	1853-54: corresp with Lord Aberdeen	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 43248-53
11	1829-57: letters to Charles Babbage	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 37184-201 passim
12	1856-60: corresp with RW Banks	Hergest Trust Archives	RWB/12,13	NRA 41662 Banks
13	letters to William Buckland	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)		See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
14	1861-64: corresp with Lord Cottesloe	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/FR	NRA 15283 Fremantle
15	1833-54: letters (22) to Sir Henry de la Beche	National Museum of Wales		See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
16	1827-61: letters (90) to G Featherstonhaugh	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Add 7652
17	corresp with James Forbes	University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, University Collections and Museums Directorate	msdep7	NRA 13132
18	1855-70: letters (14), mainly to Mrs Ford	Science Museum Library and Archives	MS 2108	NRA 25394 Science Museum Lib
19	1852-70: corresp with Jane Franklin	Cambridge University: Scott Polar Research Institute	MS 248	See Guide 1982
20	1814-29: letters (12) to Sir John Gladstone	Gladstone's Library	Glynne-Gladstone MSS 300	NRA 14174 Gladstone
21	1858-69: letters to WE Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 44389-783 passim
22	1832-67: letters (80) to George Gordon	Elgin Museum	NRA(S)1989	NRA 22745 Gordon
23	1863-70: letters to JA Grant	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 17910, 17931
24	1852-69: letters (12) to Sir George Grey	Auckland Central City Library	Grey collection	NRA 28105 Grey
25	1850-70: letters (48) to R Harkness	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS Add.7652	NRA 44054
26	1830-1868: corresp with Sir John Herschel (61 items)	Royal Society	HS	NRA 8803
27	1855-69: corresp with Thomas Huxley (25 items)	Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit	B/HUXLEY	NRA 8194 Huxley
28	1863-69: letters (10) to Sir Austen Layard	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 38996, 39106-118
29	1854-68: corresp rel to David Livingstone	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 2522, 2618
30	1854-72: letters (94) from David Livingstone	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections		See Clendennen & Cunningham, David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents, 1979
31	1856-68: corresp with David Livingstone	National Archives of Zimbabwe	LI1	See Guide to historical MSS in National Archives of Rhodesia
32	1825-52: letters (53) to Gideon Algernon Mantell	National Library of New Zealand: Alexander Turnbull Library	MS-Group-0305	NRA 40579 See Microfilm copies (ref.Xa 64) at East Sussex R.O.
33	1869-71: corresp with Lord Mayo	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS Add.7490	NRA 34983 Bourke
34	1856-66: letters to A Panizzi	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 36717-23 passim
35	1857-62: letters (10) to Charles Peach	British Geological Survey Archives	IGS1	NRA 18675 Inst of Geol See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
36	1835-46: corresp with Sir Robert Peel	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 40419-584 passim
37	1828-71: letters (32, copies) from John Phillips	Oxford University: Museum of Natural History	John Phillips Archive/Folder 17	NRA 42482
38	1855-71: letters (54) to Trenham Reeks	British Geological Survey Archives	IGS1	NRA 18675 Inst of Geol See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
39	1841-58: letters (15) to Duke of Richmond	West Sussex Record Office	vol 3	NRA 850 Gordon Lennox
40	1839-68: letters (388) to Royal Geographical Society	Royal Geographical Society	RGS/CB	See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
41	1840-1869: letters (60) corresp with Sir Richard Owen and William Clift	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L OC62	See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
42	1828-61: letters to Adam Sedgwick (transcripts)	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Add. 7652	NRA 44054
43	1827-1861: letters (131) to members of the Sowerby family	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L Sowerby Coll A	See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
44	1822-67: letters to Sir Walter and Lady Trevelyan	Newcastle University: Special Collections	WCT	NRA 12238 Trevelyan
45	1830-62: corresp with William Whewell	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library	WHEWELL	NRA 8804
46	1815-69: letters (10)	Science Museum Library and Archives	pp16,31-32	NRA 9524 Science Museum
47	corresp (1 file)	Wellcome Library		NRA 25910
48	1846-1870: misc corresp	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 9715, 9813, 10709, 10779-10780, 10997 Passim