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Ritchie, James, 1882-1958 (naturalist, Keeper of the Natural History Department, Royal Scottish Museum)

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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Faculty of Science Minute Book, 1943-1949

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACA/SCI/1/17
Scope and Contents

Includes letters and reports, covering subjects such as courses, students, research grants and appointments. Those present at meetings included Edward Percy Stebbing, James Ritchie, James Kendall, Charles Glover Barkla, Sir William Wright Smith and Sir Edmund Taylor Whitaker.

Dates: 1943-1949

Faculty of Science Minute Book, 1949-1953

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Identifier: GB 0237 EUA IN1/ACA/SCI/1/18
Scope and Contents

Includes letters and reports, covering subjects such as courses, students, research grants and appointments. Those present at meetings included Ronald Nathan Arnold, Michael Meredith Swann, James Ritchie, Edward Percy Stebbing, James Kendall and Sir William Wright Smith.

Dates: 1949-1953

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James Ritchie, 10 June 1931

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/37/3
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Ritchie wonders if Ewart's research on plumage could be furthered by examining the succession of plumage in, for instance, a diving duck such as the Eider, as it is near enough to the mallard to promise results but not near enough to suggest identity of development. He then requests a copy of Ewart's portrait to hang in his office at Aberdeen University 'to commemorate your holding of the Aberdeen Chair'.

Dates: 10 June 1931

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James Ritchie, 02 September 1928

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/34/6
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Ritchie provides details about a paper he has seen in Nature concerning the moulting of the Hoatzin bird from down into feathers. He wonders whether Ewart should try to obtain a loan of the specimens or a sample of the down for examination.

Dates: 02 September 1928

Page mounted with four photographs, c.1954

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Identifier: Coll-1057/6/2/76
Scope and Contents Recto: photograph of B.M. Slizynski, Helen Slizynska, Dr Kaufman, Dr Grjewski, Dr Blyth outside the Institute of Animal Genetics building; photograph of Dr P.E Lake looking down a microscope and Miss Ishbel Paterson holding a cockerel. Verso: photograph of Alan Greenwood with James Ritchie and R.C Fisher at a desk, taken at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (picture credited to Edinburgh Evening News); photograph of Alan Greenwood seated on a...
Dates: c.1954

Page mounted with newspaper cutting and photograph, 1954-1956

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Identifier: Coll-1057/6/2/77
Scope and Contents

The newspaper cutting is under the headline 'He Wins Neill Prize' about Robert Osborne of the Poultry Research Centre being awarded the Neill Prize by James Ritchie for his contributions to the knowledge of the domestic fowl (Edinburgh Evening News, December 1956). The photograph shows Miss Peace, Dr Blyth, Alan Totty and Miss Wilson sitting on a bench between two plants (picture signed 'M.L 1954').

Dates: 1954-1956

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