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University of St Andrews (1411-:)

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Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Call to St Columba, Kilmacolm, 1933

 Item
Identifier: BAI 7/5
Scope and Contents

Signed call by the congregation of St Columba's Parish Church, Kilmacolm, inviting Donald Macpherson Baillie to be their minister.

Dates: 1933
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie

Certificates and honours, 1886-1904

 File
Identifier: Coll-11/A5-A6
Scope and Contents

Certificates and Honours from:

Honorary M.D. Trinity College Dublin (1886);

Honorary D.Sc. Trinity College Dublin (1891);

Honorary LL.D. St Andrews University (1891);

Royal Society of London (1900);

Honorary LL.D. Glasgow University (1901);

Appointment to Chair of Anatomy at Edinburgh University (incl. biographical details and press cuttings) (1903);

Medical Society of Edinburgh (1904).

Dates: 1886-1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham / Biographical material

Composite volume entitled "Theses Etc." containing printed and manuscript texts

 Fonds — Volume Df.9.138
Identifier: Coll-2889
Scope and Contents This is a composite volume containing 23 texts published or written in the 17th century, numbered from Df.9.138/1 to Df.9.138/23. All of them are printed except for Df.9.138/15. The printed texts are theses from Scottish universities (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, St Andrews), and from elsewhere in Europe (London, Leiden, Deventer, Basel). The manuscript text seems to be lecture notes. Includes a handwritten list of contents at the beginning of the volume....
Dates: 1629-1684
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence from Matthew Forster Heddle, 1879-1897

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/2
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence from Matthew Forster Heddle sub-series consists of:


  1. 38 letters, chronologically arranged (1879-1897). Includes sketch of Old Man of Hoy.
Dates: 1879-1897
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (H-S)

Correspondence: John Strong Newberry to John Perry, 1863-1900

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/17
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence: John Strong Newberry to John Perry sub-series consists of:


  1. 37 letters, alphabetically arranged (1863-1900)
Dates: 1863-1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (H-S)

Honorary DD degree, 1933

 Item
Identifier: BAI 7/4
Scope and Contents

Honorary DD degree certificate from the University of St Andrews.

Dates: 1933
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie

Letter to James Geikie from the University of St Andrews, 1911

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Identifier: Coll-99/10/6
Scope and Contents

Letter to James Geikie from the University of St Andrews, with commemorative invitation in Latin, inviting Geikie and his wife to attend the 500th anniversary celebration of the university.

Dates: 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Miscellaneous

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Albert Schweitzer, 08 May 1932

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1647
Scope and Contents

Letter, 8 May 1932, Holland, Albert Schweitzer to Donald Tovey. Discussing Schweitzer's plans to collect an honorary doctorate from St. Andrews university and hoping to do something with Tovey at the University of Edinburgh music faculty. Holograph signed.

Dates: 08 May 1932
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Thomson from D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson regarding Thomson's Galton lecture, The Trend of National Intelligence, 8 Jun 1946

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Identifier: Coll-1310/1/1/13
Scope and Contents

Thompson states the paper is an interesting one, and makes reference to his students' decreasing intelligence.

Dates: 8 Jun 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson / Biographical and personal papers / Correspondence

[Margaret Colville Marshall OBE awarded Doctor of Laws at University of St. Andrews], 1975

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Identifier: P/PG56/34
Scope and Contents

B/w photograph of Margaret Colville Marshall OBE (second from left), Doris Myles (far left), and two other women at the University of St. Andrews. Photograph is accompanied by a typewritten memorandum produced by the University that announces Margaret Colville Marshall's award of an honourary Doctor of Laws, presented on 27 Jun 1975 (GD56/3/11).

Dates: 1975
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Doris Myles / Doris Myles photographs

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