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University of St Andrews (1411-:)

 Organization

Found in 12 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

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

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

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

Honorary DD degree, 1933

 Item
Identifier: BAI 7/4
Scope and Contents

Honorary DD degree certificate from the University of St Andrews.

Dates: 1933

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

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

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

[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

Minutes relating to the death of Donald Macpherson Baillie, 1954

 File
Identifier: BAI 7/15
Scope and Contents

Extracts from minutes of the Foreign Mission Committee of the Church of Scotland and the Senate and Faculty of Divinity of the University of St Andrews relating to the death of Donald Macpherson Baillie.

Dates: 1954

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Subject
Appointment to Office 3
Degrees, Academic 2
Kilmacolm (Scotland) 2
Scotland 2
Anniversaries 1