University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Contains Janet Vera Alison Crockett's matriculation and Bachelor of Arts certificates from the University of Melbourne, and Alan Greenwood's degree certificates in Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Science from the University of Melbourne and Doctor of Science from the University of Edinburgh.

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Bronze medal from the University of Edinburgh. On the obverse is the University crest with the legend 'Acad Jacob VI Scot Reg Edin' around the border and on the reverse is a laurel wreath containing the inscription '1871-1872'. Around the border is inscribed 'Physiology James C. Ewart.'

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Bronze medal from the University of Edinburgh. On the obverse is the University crest with the legend 'Universitas Academica Edinburgensis' around the border. On the reverse is a border pattern of thistles and vines containing the inscription 'Universitas / Academica Edinburgensis / Annum Trecentesimum / Feliciter Exactum / Celebrat / A.D. MDCCCLXXXIV'.

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The University of Edinburgh state their good wishes towards the University of Durham, and inform them that they are sending Godfrey Thomson to represent them in Durham on the day of the celebration itself. They make reference to former warlike rivalry between Northumberland and Scotland.

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Volume contains manuscript notes on the notion that physical interaction between bodies is not a matter of Newtonian forces, governed by Keplerian laws, but of the cumulative effect of collisions and other interactions among particles.

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This is a degree certificate from the University of Edinburgh awarded to Robert Anderson, a minister of Edinburgh, for his Doctorate of Divinity, on the 16th of September 1809. On vellum. Signed by Principal of the University George Husband Baird, as well as other prominent professors at the time, including Alexander Munro Senior (Secundus) and Tertius, Thomas Charles Hope, Andrew Duncan, James Gregory, John Playfair, John Leslie, et al.

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Degree scroll accompanied by a copy of the graduation ceremony programme.

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Contains Charlotte Auerbach's PhD and DSc certificates from the University of Edinburgh, honorary degree certificates from Trinity College, Dublin and the universities of Cambridge, Leiden and Indiana and awards made to Auerbach for her contributions to science, including the Darwin Medal and the Gregor Mendel Prize.

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The register contains the discipline and rules for the College of Edinburgh. In the back of the volume, written upside down, are notes made by Mackie on European and Scottish family trees, both royal and landed families, history of parts of Europe including more detail on Scottish and English history, with listings of significant events.

It is almost certainly a later copy: this is definitely so if it was written by Mackie.

Scope and Contents Files in 13 subseries: Faculty of Arts (1872-1977) Bequests (1912-1987) Faculty of Divinity (1927-1984) Faculty of Law (1919-1958) Lectures (1885-1965) Faculty of Medicine (1833-1971) Miscellaneous (1884-1981) Faculty of Music (1891-1954) Faculty of Science...