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3 page typescript, 'Report on reception of Alexandra Palace in South Africa', 1950

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.287
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3 page typescript, 'Report on reception of Alexandra Palace in South Africa'. Signed by T.W. Bennington (B.B.C.), dated July 1950.

Dates: 1950

3 papers relating to wireless signal research, c. 1924-1925

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.1
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3 papers relating to wireless signal research. The titles are:'Some methods of investigating wireless signal variations', by Appleton and M.A.F. Barnett, a 7 page typescript, no date, the latest reference is 1925; 'Some wireless methods of investigating the upper atmosphere', a 3 page typescript, no date, c.1924-1925; and ‘Some problems of wireless wave propagation', an 11 page typescript, p.5-6 missing, no date, c. 1925, which details Appleton's and Barnett's experiments.

Dates: c. 1924-1925

3 photographs of receiving apparatus, c. 1942

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Identifier: Coll-37/H.4
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The material consists of 3 photographs of receiving apparatus, possibly dated c. 1942, Burghead.

Dates: c. 1942

3 reports on radio detection, February 1941-May 1941

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.253
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The material consists of 3 reports on radio detection:


‘The power required in R.D.F. [Radio Direction Finding] systems and the echoing properties of various targets.’ A report from H. M. Signal School, Portsmouth, dated February 1941.


Report, ‘Material for prediction' (page 1 and cover missing), c. March 1941.


'A Note on the Optimum Wavelength for R.D.F. Performance’. A report from H.M. Signal School, Haslemere, dated May 1941.

Dates: February 1941-May 1941

3 reports on rockets, 1947-1948

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Identifier: Coll-37/G.18
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The material consists of 3 reports on rockets.

Dates: 1947-1948

3 small envelopes containing observations and photographs, c. 1929-1935

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.305
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3 small envelopes containing observations and photographs. The material consists of envelope addressed ‘Proffessor Appleton Grand Hotel', containing photographs of aurora, etc.; envelope, mainly containing observations made at King's College, London, 1929 (many identified on verso); and envelope of photographs of scenery (one with a manuscript note by R. Naismith).

Dates: c. 1929-1935

3 speeches at Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1967-1968

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.246-D.248
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This sub-subseries consists of 3 files containing material relating to 3 speeches given by Norman Dott at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1967-1968.

Dates: 1967-1968

3 speeches or lectures by Edward Appleton, 1951

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.45
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3 speeches or lectures by Edward Appleton. The material consists of Speech for Honorary Graduands, July 1951, 16 pages, typescript; Appleton’s contribution to the British Association meeting on 'World Communications', September 1951, 3 pages typescript; and copy of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Monthly Journal containing 'Science, Government and Industry', the Dallas lecture delivered by Appleton at Glasgow, November 1951.

Dates: 1951

3 versions of paper 'Facial nerve grafting from the internal acoustic meatus', February 1963

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.192
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3 versions of paper 'Facial nerve grafting from the internal acoustic meatus'. The paper was delivered at the Second Workshop on Reconstructive Middle Ear Surgery, Chicago, dated February 1963. The material consists of 3 versions of the paper with different manuscript corrections or additional material; and a copy of the published paper with the title 'Facial nerve reconstruction by graft by-passing the petrous bone'. See reference Harris 74 in Coll-32/A.3.

Dates: February 1963

3rd edition, May 1892

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Identifier: Coll-60/2/1/2
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3rd edition of The Scottish Students' Song Book(1892). Large 8vo copy bound in dark claret leather with title in gold on front cover and spine. Marked ‘3rd Edition/May 1892’ in pencil on verso of front free end-paper.

Dates: May 1892

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Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and principal of the University of Edinburgh) 795
Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon) 631
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 343
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D'Almaine & Co (1834-1867) (Music publisher) 24
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Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 19
Black, John, fl1728-1766 (father of Joseph Black) 17
Black, George, fl1795-1801 (nephew of Joseph Black) 16
Denham, Sir James Steuart, 1712-1780 (3rd Baronet of Goodtrees and 7th Baronet of Coltness | economist | husband of Lady Frances Steuart (1722-1789)) 14
Fraser, Marjory Kennedy-, 1857-1930 (singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger) 13
Denham, Sir James Steuart, 1744-1839 (4th baronet of Goodtrees and 8th baronet of Coltness | British Army Officer) 12
Rackstraw, Marjorie, 1888-1981 (educationalist and social worker) 12
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 12
Wilson, Patrick, 1743-1811 (astronomer) 12
Alexander, George Lionel, 1902-1970 (Scottish born surgeon) 11
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 11
King, Pravina, fl 1990s-2010s (administrator of the Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh, and organiser of Scotland Africa '97) 11
Tod, Richard, fl 1901-1917 (Children's book illustrator and author) 11
Wesley, Samuel Sebastian, 1810-1876 (organist and composer) 11
MacCormick, Sir Donald Neil, 1941-2009 (legal philosopher and Scottish politician) 10
Tod, Alison Douglas, fl 1940-1949 (Children's book illustrator and author) 10
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 9
De Secondat, Charles Louis, 1689-1755 (known as Montesquieu | French philosopher) 9
Black, Thomas, fl1792-1798 (brother of Joseph Black) 8
Cairns, Hugh, 1896-1952 (Australian neurosurgeon) 8
Dashkova, Princess Catherine, 1743-1810 (President of the Russian Academy) 8
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (historian, philosopher) 8
Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808 (physician) 7
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 (French chemist) 7
Crell, Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von, 1744-1816 (German chemist) 6
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 6
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Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 6
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh) 6
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Steuart, Elizabeth, d 1803 (Sister of James Steuart Denham (1712-1780)) 6
Symonds, Charles Putnam, 1890-1978 (English neurologist) 6
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Boughton, Alice, 1866-1943 (Photographer) 5
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Erskine, John Francis Erskine Goodeve, 1836-1930 (27th Earl of Mar, Senior representative Peer for Scotland) 5
Harris, Phillip, 1922-2013 (Scottish Neurosurgeon) 5
Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 5
Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard, 1913-2012 (English radio astronomer, pioneer of radar and radio telescopes) 5
Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 5
Masson Hall (1897-) 5
Rungiah, fl 1800-1899 (Indian botanical illustrator) 5
Steuart, Sir James, 1635-1713 (Lord Advocate of Scotland) 5
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Watt, James, 1736-1819 (engineer) 5
Arbuthnot, Robert, fl1783 (secretary to the Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland) 4
Bradley, Orlando Charnock, 1871-1937 (lecturer, University of Edinburgh and principal, Royal Dick Veterinary College) 4
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Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 4
Edinburgh College of Art (1907-:) 4
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Penfield, Wilder Graves, 1891-1976 (American-Canadian Neurosurgeon) 3
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