University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

This is a comic book about the adventures of a well known anthropomorphic Billy-Goat and his dog. Published in Dormagen, Germany in 1945.

Thesis by Zygmunt Menschik, "Wplyw Witaminu e Budowe Jajnika U Myszy".

"Agreement between the University of Edinburgh and the Polish Government, concerning the creation of a Polish Medical Faculty at the University of Edinburgh". The text is in Polish with the same in English immediately following. The document concludes with the Constitution of the Polish School of Medicine, in English.

A folder containing a letter from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Warsaw Agricultural University, 19th February 1991 regarding the 200 anniversary of William Dick's birth. Also included in a photocopy of an article about the Polish School at the R(D)SVS during the Second World War.

Correspondence Files material in Polish and English (NB not translated much of correspondence is independent so either in Polish or English): 1946-1952 – contains letter about students; 1956- 1965; 1966-1968; 1967; 1969-1973; 1976; 1967-1996. (Note: later files relate to anniversary celebrations)

Also includes a letter regarding this from Sir Anthony Eden's secretary, and a membership card attesting Professor Godfrey Thomson an honorary member of the Association of Polish teachers in Great Britain.

The material includes: correspondence with Hutchinson Educational Ltd and Hutchinson Publishing Group Ltd, copies of reviews of the book, draft typescripts of Waddington's foreword and S.A Barnett's introduction to the book, a Memorandum of Agreement between Waddington and Hutchinson Educational Ltd regarding The Scientific Attitude and a copy of Polish journal Życie Nauki (The Life of Science), 6, No.31-32 (1948).

Contains copy of Polish journal Wsechswiat, 10 (1957), containing Geoffrey Beale's article 'Genetics of the Antigene of Paramecium aurelia, plus typescript of English translation and some related correspondence.

Published in Hagen, Germany. Includes stories, illustrations.

These begin on 13 November 1940, with the minute of the meeting held in the office of Stanislaw Kot, in London, concerning the foundation of the School and followed by two subsequent meetings as things developed. From 11 April 1941, these are the minutes of the Faculty, dealing largely with business of running the School. The series concludes with the meetings which dealt with the winding up of the School in 1948-49.