Duncan Robertson Irvine

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Irvine is 3rd from the right, back row.

Timeline

Date	Details
1852	Born April 2nd.
1868	Joined Survey 1st May.
1882	Resigned 10th July.

Biographies and obituaries

Portrait on Ancestry

Publications

Memoir: Stranraer, Port Patrick, West Wigtown (with A. Geikie 1873)

Memoir: Wigtown, Creetown etc (1878)

Memoir: Mull of Galloway, Kirkmaiden, Wigtown (1872)

Work listed in the BGS Library catalogue

Irvine, D.R. (1872). Explanation of sheet 1: Wigtonshire - Mull of Galloway. (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of GB (Scotland)). Edinburgh : HMSO.

Geikie, A. ; Irvine, D.R. (1873). Explanation of sheet 3: Western Wigtownshire. (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of GB (Scotland)). Edinburgh : HMSO.

Irvine, D.R. (1878). Explanation of Sheet 4: Wigtownshire (east part) Kirkcudbright (portion of western division). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of GB (Scotland)). Edinburgh : HMSO.

Maps

British Geological Survey ; Irvine, D.R. (December 1871). Sheet 1 [Kirkmaiden] [solid] [superseded]. [Solid ed.]. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

British Geological Survey ; Irvine, D.R. (December 1871). Sheet 3 [Stranraer] [solid] [superseded]. [Solid ed.]. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

British Geological Survey ; Irvine, D.R. ; Horne, J. ; Craik, J. (Dec[embe]r 1877). Sheet 4 [Wigtown] [solid] [superseded]. [Solid ed.]. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

British Geological Survey ; Irvine, D.R. ; Horne, J. (Dec[embe]r 1879). Sheet 5 [Kirkudbright][solid] [superseded]. [Solid ed.]. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

British Geological Survey ; Geikie, A. ; Geikie, J. ; Peach, B.N. ; Horne, J. ; Irvine, D.R. (Dec[embe]r 1893). Sheet 8 Carrick [solid] [superseded]. [Solid ed.]. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

British Geological Survey ; Young, J. ; Geikie, J. ; Peach, B.N. ; Skae, H.M. ; Irvine, D.R. (Dec[embe]r 1889). Sheet 16 [solid] Moffat. [Solid ed.]. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

British Geological Survey ; Irvine, D.R. ; Skae, H.M. ; Barrow, G. (1897). Sheet 57 [solid] Forfar. [Solid ed.]. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

British Geological Survey ; Irvine, D.R. (Dec[embe]r 1881). Sheet 57A [solid] Benholm. [Solid ed.]. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

British Geological Survey ; Barrow, G. ; Irvine, D.R. (December 1897). Sheet 66 [solid] Banchory. [Solid ed.]. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

British Geological Survey ; Barrow, G. ; Irvine, D.R. (1898). Sheet 67 [solid] Stonehaven. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

British Geological Survey ; Horne, J. ; Skae, H.M. ; Irvine, D.R. ; Hinxman, L.W. ; Grant Wilson, J.S. (Dec[embe]r 1886). Sheet 76 Inverurie [solid]. [Solid ed.]. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

British Geological Survey ; Irvine, D.R. ; Grant Wilson, J.S. (December 1885). Sheet 77 [solid] Aberdeen. [Solid ed.]. (Geological Survey of Scotland 1:63 360/1:50 000). Southampton : Ordnance Survey for the Geological Survey.

BGS archives

Ref No	Title	Description
GSM/DC/A/C/7/539,551	D R Irvine: Letter on his appointment.
GSM/DC/A/C/8/28,36	D R Irvine: Letter on his appointment.
GSM/DR/Ge/A/5	Correspondence on various matters: letters to J.Craik, J.Evans, F.H.Hatch, J.Horne, D.R.Irvine, B...