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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89

Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...

Dates: 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108

Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing songs, poems, tales, names, vocabulary and expressions collected in the Outer Hebrides [Na h-Eileanan an Iar]. The first part of the volume contains transcriptions taken as Carmichael listened to informants in 1877 while the second part appears to be copies of previous transcriptions of material collected by Carmichael and Rev Malcolm MacPhail in 1874 and written into the notebook in 1891. Amongst the material is a version of the lament...

Dates: 1874, 1877 and 1891

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about the fish 'bacach cearr' [sole], June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/77

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Note about the fish 'bacach cearr' [sole] collected on Ìle/Islay that '80 score [were] sent to market' having been caught on 'Bank an iar' [west bank]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed alsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about the fish 'blad-fo-lic', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/78

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Note collected on Ìle/Islay about the fish 'blad-fo-lic' that it is shaped like a leabag [flounder] and that it had a 'spot on each side when the saviour caught it.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed alsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes about a purchase and vocabulary, 23 March 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/23

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Note probably collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] about a purchase made by James MacNeill mac Ghilleaspaig Neill in Ireland. Also, Gaelic names for turbot and halibut, which have been scored out.

Dates: 23 March 1877

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes about fish and snakes, 24 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/119

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Notes about fish and snakes collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann] including that the skate has no roe, snakes have eggs like hens and the dogfish has no ribs, only a spine. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 24 June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes about fish, shellfish and crustaceans, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/88

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Notes about fish, shellfish and crustaceans collected on Ìle/Islay, including that 'Abhain Chul Davach Co[unty] Donegal [is] paved with siolag.' and listing differnt types of fish and their English name equivalent. Also notes that 'Long shells - fan-like got off Coll on one bank. On House Bank - 11 in[ches] long.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes and story about eagles, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/154

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Notes and story about eagles including that a young eagle does not leave the nest until it can hunt for itself, that Calum Brocar got ten shillings for an eagle, that an eagle 'cuts rope like [a] knife' and that fishermen off Bhatairsteinn/Waterstein found an eagle 'with its two claws into a large Ugsa [coal-fish]. both dead.' Each line of text has been scored through horizontally.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes on cearban [sunfish or basking shark], 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/54

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Notes on 'cearban [sunfish or basking shark] Harris' and that old men only saw one female sun-fish and that it produced 12 barrels of oil where generally one would produce 7 to 9 barrels.

Dates: 1877

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes on sponges and fish livers, 23 March 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/24

Scope and Contents

Note probably collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] about sponges and that they are only eaten by two families in Barra and that fish liver is 'but little used' there too.

Dates: 23 March 1877

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891

Note about the fish 'bacach cearr' [sole], June 1887

Note about the fish 'blad-fo-lic', June 1887

Notes about a purchase and vocabulary, 23 March 1877

Notes about fish and snakes, 24 June 1887

Notes about fish, shellfish and crustaceans, June 1887

Notes and story about eagles, June 1887

Notes on cearban [sunfish or basking shark], 1877

Notes on sponges and fish livers, 23 March 1877

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