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University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections 6762

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Physics 825

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Animal welfare 341

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crossdressing 36

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HIV (Viruses) | Scotland | 30

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crossed letter 24

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Language

French 31

German 11

Italian 4

Latin 4

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Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 2

Japanese 2

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Spanish; Castilian 2

Czech 1

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Names

Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and principal of the University of Edinburgh) 795

Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon) 631

Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 343

Pollock, Martin Rivers, 1914-1999 (professor of biology, University of Edinburgh) 294

Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 64

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Crawford, Matthew, fl 1817-1854 (Barrister and husband of Louisa Matilda Crawford) 58

Jefferson, Geoffrey, Sir, 1886-1961 (English Neurosurgeon) 27

Black, George, fl1746-1798 (brother of Joseph Black) 26

D'Almaine & Co (1834-1867) (Music publisher) 24

Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 18

Black, John, fl1728-1766 (father of Joseph Black) 17

Black, George, fl1795-1801 (nephew of Joseph Black) 16

Denham, Sir James Steuart, 1712-1780 (3rd Baronet of Goodtrees and 7th Baronet of Coltness | economist | husband of Lady Frances Steuart (1722-1789)) 14

Fraser, Marjory Kennedy-, 1857-1930 (singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger) 13

Denham, Sir James Steuart, 1744-1839 (4th baronet of Goodtrees and 8th baronet of Coltness | British Army Officer) 12

Rackstraw, Marjorie, 1888-1981 (educationalist and social worker) 12

Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 12

Wilson, Patrick, 1743-1811 (astronomer) 12

Alexander, George Lionel, 1902-1970 (Scottish born surgeon) 11

Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 11

King, Pravina, fl 1990s-2010s (administrator of the Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh, and organiser of Scotland Africa '97) 11

Tod, Richard, fl 1901-1917 (Children's book illustrator and author) 11

Wesley, Samuel Sebastian, 1810-1876 (organist and composer) 11

MacCormick, Sir Donald Neil, 1941-2009 (legal philosopher and Scottish politician) 10

Tod, Alison Douglas, fl 1940-1949 (Children's book illustrator and author) 10

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 9

De Secondat, Charles Louis, 1689-1755 (known as Montesquieu | French philosopher) 9

Black, Thomas, fl1792-1798 (brother of Joseph Black) 8

Cairns, Hugh, 1896-1952 (Australian neurosurgeon) 8

Dashkova, Princess Catherine, 1743-1810 (President of the Russian Academy) 8

Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (historian, philosopher) 8

Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808 (physician) 7

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 (French chemist) 7

Crell, Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von, 1744-1816 (German chemist) 6

Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 6

MacPherson, James, 1736-1796 ('Ossian MacPherson' | writer) 6

Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 6

Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh) 6

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) 6

Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1729-:) 6

Steuart, Elizabeth, d 1803 (Sister of James Steuart Denham (1712-1780)) 6

Symonds, Charles Putnam, 1890-1978 (English neurologist) 6

Anderson, Robert Rowand, Sir, 1834-1921 (Architect) 5

Boughton, Alice, 1866-1943 (Photographer) 5

Dalyell, John Graham, 1775-1851 (Antiquary and Naturalist) 5

Denham, Lady Frances Steuart, 1722-1789 (Scottish aristocrat, wife of Sir James Steuart (1712-1780)) 5

Erskine, John Francis Erskine Goodeve, 1836-1930 (27th Earl of Mar, Senior representative Peer for Scotland) 5

Harris, Phillip, 1922-2013 (Scottish Neurosurgeon) 5

Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 5

Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard, 1913-2012 (English radio astronomer, pioneer of radar and radio telescopes) 5

Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 5

Masson Hall (1897-) 5

Rungiah, fl 1800-1899 (Indian botanical illustrator) 5

Steuart, Sir James, 1635-1713 (Lord Advocate of Scotland) 5

Steuart, Sir Thomas, 1631-1698 (1st Baronet of Coltness | Brother of Sir James Steuart of Goodtrees (1635-1713)) 5

Watt, James, 1736-1819 (engineer) 5

Arbuthnot, Robert, fl1783 (secretary to the Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland) 4

Bradley, Orlando Charnock, 1871-1937 (lecturer, University of Edinburgh and principal, Royal Dick Veterinary College) 4

Chappell & Co. (1810-1987) (Music publisher) 4

Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 4

Edinburgh College of Art (1907-:) 4

Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4

Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907 (violinist) 4

King, Kenneth, fl 1970-2010s (former Director of the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh) 4

Leader & Cock (fl 1854) (Publishers) 4

Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 4

Monro, Alexander, 1773-1859 ("Tertius", Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 4

Robison, John, 1739-1805 (professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4

Smith, Sydney Goodsir, 1915-1975 (poet, artist, dramatist, novelist) 4

Soyinka, Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde, b 1934 (Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist) 4

Udvarhelyi, George B, 1920-2010 (American neurosurgeon) 4

University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 4

Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman) 4

Bailey, Percival Sylvester, 1892-1972 (American neuropathologist, neurosurgeon and psychiatrist) 3

Bantock, Sir Granville, 1868-1946 3

Black, Samuel, d 1792 (Brother of Joseph Black) 3

Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 3

Botterell, Edmund Harry, 1906-1997 (Canadian neurosurgeon) 3

Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord, 1788?1824 (sixth Baron Byron | poet ) 3

Carmichael, Edward Arnold, 1896-1978 (Neurologist) 3

Cleghorn, Hugh Francis Clarke (physician, botanist) 3

Cowley, Roger Arthur, 1939-2015 (Professor of Physics, University of Edinburgh) 3

Crouch, Frederick, 1808-1896 (Composer) 3

Deirdre an Bhróin (Mythological Irish figure) 3

Dempster, George, 1732-1818 (agriculturalist) 3

Denham, Sir Archibald Steuart, 1683-1773 (6th Baronet of Coltness, and Baronet of Denham of Westshield | Scottish aristocrat) 3

Drake, Charles George, 1920-1998 (Canadian neurosurgeon) 3

European Union (1993) 3

Fry, Sara Margery, 1874-1958 (Penal reformer, Principal of Somerville College Oxford) 3

Hartung, Georg, 1821 - 1891 (German geologist) 3

Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 (British botanist, explorer | Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew) 3

Lee. Leoni (fl 1850) (Music publisher) 3

Lister, Sir Joseph, 1827-1912 (1st Baron Lister | British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery) 3

Lwoff, André Michel, 1902-1994 (microbiologist) 3

MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 3

Marshall, George William, fl 1870s (acquaintance of John F. Goodeve Erskine, Earl of Mar) 3

Penfield, Wilder Graves, 1891-1976 (American-Canadian Neurosurgeon) 3

Sinclair, Alexander, 1794-1877 (Scottish antiquarian) 3

Stewart, Dugald, 1753-1828 (Scottish philosopher and mathematician) 3

Sugden, David Edward, b 1941 (British Glaciologist and geomorphologist) 3

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