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 Organization

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Dates

  • Existence: 1451- :

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Dr Banda mostly relating to his gifts to the University of Edinburgh and the Infirmary, and his meeting with Professor and Mrs Shepperson, 1975-1977

 File — Box CLX-A-19: Series Coll-490/12; Series Coll-490/13
Identifier: Coll-490/12/8F
Scope and Contents Correspondence – most of it relating to Dr Banda's generous gifts to the University of Edinburgh and the Infirmary, and his meeting with Professor and Mrs Shepperson at Gleneagles Hotel. [24 items + enclosures]1. Letter from Dr H Kamazu Banda, President of Malawi, to the Rev Hamish Smith, University Chaplaincy Centre, Edinburgh. The number of needy students in Malawi makes it difficult to respond to calls from outside the country. He, however, enclosed a cheque for £100 and asks...
Dates: 1975-1977
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 12: Correspondence relating to Dr Hastings K. Banda

Draft Examination Papers, late 19th-early 20th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW414
Scope and Contents

Draft examination papers for the University of Glasgow M.A. Degree Examinations (Ordinary) in Celtic.

Dates: late 19th-early 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Folio B, c1669-c1708

 Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: Most of the scientific content of Folio B comes from early in Gregory's career. It includes an index of later letters of John Collins (1625-1683) to James Gregorie (1638-1675), a number of Edinburgh lectures in geometry, mechanics, and optics, and some tables and manuscript pieces of 'Elementa Catoptricae et Dioptricae', the 'Institutes of Astronomy', and the...
Dates: c1669-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

Glasgow University Celtic Chair Appeal Fund Papers, 1936-1937

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW402
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, John Cameron to James Carmichael Watson, inviting attendance at a meeting with a Committee established to make an appeal for funds to establish a Chair in Celtic at Glasgow University. Letter also encloses a Memorial by Committee of the Glasgow University Ossianic Club, with reference to the establishment of a Chair of Celtic.

Dates: 1936-1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Lecture Notes of John Robison

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-204
Scope and Contents

Lecture notes from the time when Robison was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. The notes embrace the sciences of mechanics, hydrodynamics, astronomy and optics, together with electricity and magnetism.

It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.

Dates: c1779-c1801
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from Alexander Wilson to Joseph Black, 21 January 1768

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/26-27
Scope and Contents

Letter from Alexander Wilson, and his son, to Joseph Black regarding thermometers, clouds, air pressure and the evaporation of ice.

Dates: 21 January 1768
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Letter from William Stark to Joseph Black, 20 March 1766

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/22-25
Scope and Contents

Letter from William Stark, London, to Joseph Black , wishing to obtain a MD in absentia from his former university (Glasgow) and referring to cases at St George's Hospital, London.

Dates: 20 March 1766
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Papers concerning Angus Matheson, 1938

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW401
Scope and Contents Series of papers concerning Angus Matheson of 66 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh. Papers include correspondence dated 31 August 1938, giving an account of Angus Matheson's canvassing for the position of Lecturer in Celtic at Glasgow University. Also one item of correspondence addressed to Dr MacLeod, dated 14 Feb 1938, which comments on George Calder's editing of the Poems of William Ross (Edinburgh, 1937) . Also a letter of application and testimonials in favour of...
Dates: 1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Papers of Joseph Black and family

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-16
Scope and Contents 5 boxes of correspondence between himself and a variety of individuals (including James Watt, Prince Paul Dashkov, John Robison) and on a variety of subjects: linen bleaching, use of lime water, assays of ores, civic water supply, mineralogical specimens, absorption of heat etc 1 box of family letters between Black, his father and his brothers Samuel, George and Thomas ...
Dates: 1746-1799
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie, 1908-1961

 Series
Identifier: BAI 7
Scope and Contents

The papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie consist of:


  1. articles, cuttings and ephemera
  2. career/employment resumés and references
  3. correspondence
  4. memorials and letters of condolence
Dates: 1908-1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers

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