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2 (39), Thomson to Ledermann, Ledermann to Thomson, 19 Jun 1939-24 Jun 1939

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Identifier: Coll-1064/82
Scope and Contents In Thomson's letter to Ledermann, dated 19 Jun 1939, he apologises for not replying to an earlier letter of Ledermann's and informs him that he will be happy to send him any of the letters he has written regarding his work from the last year, asking him to specify the subjects he is interested in. In his reply, dated 24 Jun 1939, Ledermann tells Thomson that he would like to look at the problem of maximising and minimizing the specifics, and that he has...
Dates: 19 Jun 1939-24 Jun 1939

17th century letter from London to Leith, 14 April 1666

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Identifier: Coll-1383/2/3
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Letter sent to a Mr Richard Harris in Leith, signed by Francis Dashwood in London, April 14th 1666. Dashwood takes notice that Harris has received the first silk he sent from London to Leith.

Dates: 14 April 1666

Journal account of departure of Eoghan Carmichael's departure for Africa, 6 May 1893 to 13 May 1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/1
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Journal account written by Alexander Carmichael of the departure of his son Eoghan for Africa describing seeing him off at Waverley Station, Edinburgh, noting who met him in London and that he set sail on the 'SS Scot' from London, England for Chinde, East Africa [Mozambique]. Of his departure, Carmichael writes 'Poor darling boy! We shall not see him at the soonest for five years - perhaps never. God alone knows. This is the first break in the family.'

Dates: 6 May 1893 to 13 May 1893

Letter to Lady Mabel Emily McCormick from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 04 April 1930

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L103
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Letter, 4 April 1930, Edinburgh, Donald Tovey to Lady McCormick. Letter of condolences after the death of Lord McCormick. Ms. transcript by Hubert Foss.

Dates: 04 April 1930

Letters and telegrams between Thomson, the War Office, and the Scottish Education Department, 1 Oct 1944-4 Oct 1944

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Identifier: Coll-1310/1/1/1/9
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The correspondence regards a confidential post in Germany in the English Department of Education, which Thomson declined.

Drafts of Thomson's responses and his notes are written on the reverse side of draft programmes for Orpheus performed at the Moray House Training College.

Dates: 1 Oct 1944-4 Oct 1944

Publication proofs and lecture syllabuses, 1867-1881

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Identifier: Coll-74 Gen. 522/3
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The Publication proofs and lecture syllabuses series consists of:


  1. lecture syllabuses, 1867-1869
  2. publication proofs, 1879 and 1881.
Dates: 1867-1881

Quarto A, c1680-c1708

 Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory in Quarto A consist of: 107 manuscript papers and an index, relating to: theoretical physics, including optics, especially treatises on refraction and colour, on mechanics, specifically on velocity, gravitation, centrifugal and centripetal force, and the movement of solids through fluid, and an occasional thought on magnetic attraction. Applied physics, considering ships,...
Dates: c1680-c1708

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Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 2
Anderson, Robert, fl1668-1696 (mathematician and silk-weaver) 1
Apollonius of Perga, 262-190 BC (Greek mathematician) 1
Archimedes, of Syracuse, 287-212 BC (Sicillian mathematician) 1
Baker, Thomas, 1625?-1689 (ecclesiastic and amateur mathematician) 1
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Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677 (mathematician, classicist, and divine) 1
Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706 (French Philosopher) 1
Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742 (clergyman, scholar and critic) 1
Bernard, Edward, 1638-1696 (professor of astronomy, University of Oxford) 1
Bernoulli, Jean, 1667-1748 (Swiss mathematician) 1
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 (natural philosopher and chemist) 1
Busby, Richard, 1606-1695 (headmaster of Westminster School, London) 1
Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 1
Carmichael, Eon Kenneth, 1872-1926 ([Eoghan] | son of Alexander Carmichael folklorist and antiquarian) 1
Carmichael, Mary Frances, c1843-1928 1
Cassini, Jean Dominique, 1625-1712 (Italian astronomer) 1
Cheyne, George, 1671-1743 (Scottish physician and amateur mathematician) 1
Collins, John, 1625-1683 (mathematician) 1
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 (Polish astronomer) 1
Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650 (French mathematician) 1
Duillier, Fatio de, 1664-1753 (Swiss mathematician) 1
Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art (1864-1904) 1
Flamsteed, John (first Astronomer Royal) 1
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 1
Gray, fl1692 (London book collector) 1
Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) 1
Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 1
Halley, Sir Edmund, 1656-1742 (astronomer) 1
Hudde, Jan, 1628-1704 (Dutch mathematician) 1
Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 (Dutch mathematician) 1
Hôpital, Guillaume De l', 1661-1704 (French mathematician) 1
Josephus, Flavius, 37-100? (Jewish historian in the house of Vespasian) 1
Keill, John, 1671-1721 (mathematician and astronomer) 1
Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 (German mathematician and astronomer) 1
Ledermann, Walter (Mathematician) 1
Lloyd, William, d1717 (Bishop of Worcester) 1
Lucretius, Titus Carus, c98-55 BC (Latin poet and philosopher) 1
Mackenzie, George, 1630-1714 (Viscount Tarbat | 1st Earl of Cromarty) 1
Mackworth, Sir Humphry, 1657-1727 (politician and mining capitalist) 1
Mary of Modena, 1658-1718 (Queen of James II of England) 1
McCormick, Lady, d. in or after 1930 1
Mercator, Nicholas, ?1620-1687 (called Kauffmann) 1
Murdoch, John, 1818-1903 (journalist and customs and excise official) 1
Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 (mathematician and astronomer) 1
Pitcairne, Archibald, 1652-1713 (Scottish physician, amateur mathematician and poet) 1
Ptolemy, Claudius, c85 -165 (Egyptian astronomer) 1
Royal Institution of Great Britain (1799-:) 1
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 1
Schooten, Frans van, 1615-1660 (Dutch mathematician) 1
Scottish Education Department. government department (fl mid 20th century) 1
Serenus, d c360 (Greek mathematician) 1
Sluse, 1622-1685 (Belgian mathematician) 1
Snell, Willebrord, 1591-1626 (called Snellius) 1
Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 (Italian mathematician) 1
Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 1875-1940 (Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 1
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1
Volder, Burchard De, 1643-1709 (Dutch mathematician) 1
Voss, 1618-1689 (Dutch mathematician) 1
Wallis, John, 1616-1703 (professor of geometry, University of Oxford) 1
War Office, Whitehall (1722-1964) 1
Whiston, William, 1667-1752 (divine and natural philosopher) 1
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