University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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This sub-sub-subseries consists of 3 files containing correspondence and material by W. Altar.

Scope and Contents This volume is entitled "F. Chemists, Physicians, Travellers, and Geographers" and contains 85 letters addressed to Sir Charles Lyell and others in his family by physicists, chemists, explorers, geographers, geologists, and doctors and surgeons. Most of the letters are accompanied by a facing photograph or portrait print of the letter’s author. Humphry Davy, chemist, with signed portrait [plate]. 1...

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Items on wartime radar. The material consists of press-cuttings on radar; photographs taken in 1944 by the R.R.D.E. [Radar Research and Development Establishment] at Beachy Head; Chart of German North Sea stations; and German report on radio technique, dated May 1940.

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Folder containing letters concerning O.C. Bradley. The contents of the letters relate to major periods of Bradley's life. They concern letters of support for his application as Chair of Comparative Anatomy at Edinburgh University, application of Principalship at the Royal Veterinary College, and letters of bereavement at the news of Bradley's death in 1937.

Scope and Contents This sub-series contains 23 files relating to Magneto-Ion Theory, c.1925. With the exception of Coll-37/C.221, the material was crammed into a bulky folder inscribed 'Some observations on the polarization of downcoming wireless waves'. The folder also has a later note ‘Magneto-Ionic Theory' by C. S. Gillmor, to whom is also owed the identification of W. Altar (see Coll-37/C.214-C.216). Appleton's own notes and drafts, which are almost never dated, appear at Coll-37/C.199-C.213....

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Papers written on the topic of Milk Fever, showing the background of information against which Dryerre and Greig proposed their calcium theory of Milk Fever aetiology.

The file contains published articles and papers on the topics of milk fever and calcium deficiency in veterinary science. A number of these papers have been annotated and a number have been transcribed. There are also newspaper cuttings relating to cattle health.

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Lyell's collection of offprints take three formats: one set of bound offprints; one A-Z set of small A5 size offprints; and one set of larger A-Z A4 size offprints. The set of bound offprints are known to relate to Lyell's Index notebooks, reference Coll-203/A5

Scope and Contents These papers represent the policy-shaping work carried out by Professor Sir D Neil MacCormick during his exercise of office as MEP, 1999-2004. Policy-shaping work was carried out through debates on questions of importance, through urgent debates on human-rights and through responses to communications from the Commission and European Council or Committees of Inquiry and Special Committees. Reports for...

Scope and Contents These papers represent the rights-implementation work carried out by Professor Sir D Neil MacCormick during his exercise of office as MEP, 1999-2004. Rights implementation work involved a combination of debates on general problems and taking up individual cases or issues with the appropriate authorities.The following series are represented within this sub-fonds: Reports for Legal Affairs...

Scope and Contents 'Wellenausbreitung in ionisierten Gasen unter dem Einfluss eines Magnetfelds'. The material consists of a manuscript narrative and calculations by Wilhelm Altar, variously paginated. Professor C.S. Gillmor described this document as 'very important for the history of the ionosphere' and gave its date as 'late 1925 - early 1926' in a private communication on 4 December 1978. The document was registered for copyright by Dr Altar, 1978. There are brief notes by Appleton on the title sheet and 2...