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Gravity, Measure of Forces, c1780-c1802

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Identifier: Coll-204/9
Scope and Contents

Notes in English, with occasional Russian headings, in basic physics like 'impulsion' and the measurement of forces. There are one or two mechanical sketches.

Dates: c1780-c1802
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Grigorii Grigorievich Orlov, Before 1777

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Identifier: DM/30
Scope and Contents

Grigorii Grigorievich Orlov (1734-1783).


Obverse: bust of Grigorii Grigorievich Orlov.


Reverse: a warrior riding a horse; a city on the background.

Dates: Before 1777
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Homage to Catherine II (the Great) of Russia, 1776

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Identifier: DM/92
Scope and Contents

Homage to Catherine II (the Great) of Russia (1729-1796).


Obverse: bust of Yekaterina Velikaya (Empress Catherine II of Russia) (Catherine the Great).


Reverse: an angel honours Catherine II (the Great) of Russia by placing flowers around her name. On the right children give the angel more flowers. On the bottom there is a globe and books. Dated 1776.

Dates: 1776
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Impulsion, Corpuscular Forces, c1780-c1802

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Identifier: Coll-204/6
Scope and Contents

Volume contains lectures in statics and fluid dynamics. Included is a note on what happens upon mixing particular chemicals. A few of the headings are in Russian.

Dates: c1780-c1802
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Inoculation of Catherine II of Russia, 1768

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Identifier: DM/84
Scope and Contents

Inoculation of Catherine II (1729-1796)


Obverse: bust of Yekaterina Velikaya (Empress Catherine II of Russia) (Catherine the Great).


Reverse: Catherine II shows her arm to a woman and several children. Catherine II was inoculated in 1768.

Dates: 1768
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Institute Visitors' Book, 1924-1947

 File — Box EUA-A-64, Box: data_value_missing_7e46d21a244709a02ea7647c681ffa7b, Box: data_value_missing_0972644b46c2528e8bdd11ac9657b219
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/A1/5/3
Scope and Contents Green bound volume containing signatures, messages and photographs of the Institute's many visitors over the years. Signatures include: G.J van Oordt, Christian Wriedt, Edward N. Wentworth, L.J Cole, W.E Agar, Karl Madsen, Oscar Riddle, Ramon Blanco, James Anderson, L.C Dunn, C.C Little, B.P Wiesner, E.W Lindstrom, Stefan Kopec, Amal Chandra Chaudhuri, Allan C. Fraser, Ilya Ivanov, M.S Gutowska, I. Johansson, Raymond T. Parkhurst, E. Azarme, J. P Chu, S.S and Dorothea Munro, Hugo Merton, G....
Dates: 1924-1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ivan Vasiliivich, Before 1777

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Identifier: DM/6
Scope and Contents

Ivan Vasiliivich (Ivan III) (1440-1505).


Obverse: bust of Ivan Vasiliivich.


Reverse: Russian inscription.

Dates: Before 1777
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Law comission, 1766

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Identifier: DM/76
Scope and Contents

Law commission.


Obverse: A symbol representing Yekaterina Velikaya (Empress Catherine II of Russia) (Catherine the Great) (1729-1796).


Reverse: a pyramid with a crown on the top. Dated 1766.

Dates: 1766
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Leaflet from the Anglo-Russian Literary Society, 1894

 Item — Box CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0071
Scope and Contents

One leaflet from the Anglo-Russian Literary Society (1894), which is the first edition of a short account of the newly-founded Anglo-Russian Literary Society, published by Berman Gurovich, a member of the Society.

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Marriage of Paul I of Russia and Natalia Alexeievna, 1773

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Identifier: DM/78
Scope and Contents

Commemoration of the marriage of Paul I of Russia (1754-1801) and Natalia Alexeievna (1755-1776).


Obverse: bust of Pyotr Paul I of Russia and Natalia Alexeievna.


Reverse: an altar with two shields and a crown on the top. On the right a man holds a torch. Dated 1773.

Dates: 1773
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 2
Sonneborn, Tracy, 1905-1981 (geneticist, distinguished professor of zoology, Indiana University) 2
Agar, Wilfred Eade, 1882-1951 (zoologist) 1
Alexander I, 1777-1825 (Emperor of Russia) 1
Alexandrovich, Andrey III, c 1255-1304 (Grand Prince of Vladimir) 1
Alexeievna, Natalia, 1755-1776 (1st wife of Paul Petrovich, Tsaverich of Russia) 1
Anderson, James, fl. 1931 1
Anglo-Russian Literary Society (1893-c ?1920) 1
Apraksin, Fyodor, 1661-1728 (General Admiral of the Russian Empire) 1
Azarme, E., fl. 1938 1
Blanco, Raymon, fl 1927 1
British Society of Animal Science. British Society of Animal Production (1944-1995) (1944-:) 1
Catherine I, 1684-1727 (Empress of Russia) 1
Chaudhuri, Amal Chandra, fl 1928 (Indian scientist) 1
Chu, Jen-Pao, fl. 1939 (Chinese geneticist) 1
Cole, Leon Jacob, 1877-1948 (American ornithologist) 1
Donskoy, Dmitry, 1350-1389 (Prince of Moscow | Grand Prince of Vladimir) 1
Dunn, Leslie Clarence, 1893-1974 (American developmental geneticist) 1
Feodorovna, Maria, 1759-1828 (Empress-Consort of Paul I, Emperor of Russia) 1
Fraser, Allan C., fl. 1929 1
Godunov, Boris, c 1551-1605 (Tsar of Russia) 1
Goldschmidt, Richard, 1878-1958 (German-American geneticist) 1
Greig, John McDougal Russell, 1899-1963 (veterinarian, director of the Moredun Institute) 1
Grigoryevich, Aleksey, 1737-1808 (Count Orlov | Russian military officer) 1
Gutowska, Marie S., fl 1931 (Polish geneticist) 1
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson, 1892-1964 (British geneticist and evolutionary biologist) 1
Ivan III, 1440-1505 (Grand Prince of Moscow) 1
Ivanov, Ilya Ivanovich, 1870-1932 (Russian and soviet biologist) 1
Johansson, Ivar, fl 1931 1
Konyukhov, Boris Vladimirovich, 1930-: (developmental geneticist) 1
Kopec, Stefan, 1888-1941 (Polish biologist and insect endocrinologist) 1
Krementsov, Nikolai, fl 1996 (science historian) 1
Lindstrom, Ernest Walter, 1891-1948 (American geneticist) 1
Little, Clarence Cook, 1888-1971 ( American genetics, cancer, and tobacco researcher ) 1
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich, 1898-1976 (Soviet biologist and agronomist) 1
Madsen, Karl, fl. 1931 1
Medvedev, Zhores Aleksandrovich, 1925-: (biologist and historian) 1
Merton, Hugo, 1879-1940 (German zoologist and explorer) 1
Michael I, 1596-1645 (Tsar of Russia) 1
Montalenti, Giuseppe, 1904-1990 (Italian biologist and geneticist, general secretary of International Union of Biological Sciences) 1
Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945 (American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist and science author) 1
Muller, Hermann Joseph, 1890-1967 ( American geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate ) 1
Munro, Sterling S., 1908-1971 (Director of Basic Research, Hy-Line Poultry Farms, Johnston, Iowa (USA)) 1
Orlov, Grigory, 1734-1783 (Russian statesman) 1
Parkhurst, Raymond T., fl 1932 1
Physical Society of London (1874-1921) 1
Pollock, Martin Rivers, 1914-1999 (professor of biology, University of Edinburgh) 1
Polyansky, Yudi I., d. 1993 (protozoologist and parasitologist) 1
Poultry Association of Great Britain (fl 1953) 1
Raikov, I.B., fl 1989 (geneticist) 1
Riddle, Oscar, 1877-1968 (American biologist) 1
Rumyantsev, Pyotr Aleksandrovich, 1725-1796 (Count Zadunaysky | Russian Military Officer) 1
Russian Academy of Sciences (1724-:) (academic institution) 1
Shivas, A.A, fl 1967 (editor) 1
Stadler, Lewis John, 1896-1954 (geneticist) 1
University of Glasgow Biology Club (fl 1948) 1
Vasily I, 1371-1425 (Grand Prince of Moscow) 1
Vasily II, 1415-1462 (Grand Prince of Moscow) 1
Weinberg, Wilhelm, 1862-1937 (physician and obstetrician-gynecologist) 1
Wentworth, Edward Norris, 1887-1959 (American animal breeding professor) 1
Wiesner, Bertold Paul, 1901-1972 (Austrian endocrinologist, biologist and physiologist) 1
Wriedt, Christian, 1883-? (geneticist) 1
Yaroslavich, Mikhail, 1271-1318 (Prince of Tver | Grand Prince of Vladimir) 1
Yudin, Alexander L., fl 1978 (cytologist) 1
van Oordt, Gregorius Johannes, 1892-1963 (Dutch zoologist and physiologist) 1
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