University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections 1140

Lothian Health Services Archive 21

New College Library Special Collections 6

 

Subject

Correspondence 460

Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to 431

Physics 194

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Correspondence 115

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Autographs 56

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Portraits 45

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 -- Correspondence 44

Photographs 40

University of Edinburgh -- Principals 30

Correspondence -- Persian 28

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 -- Correspondence 20

Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence from 13

Radio Broadcasting 13

Compilation manuscripts 11

Turner, Sir William, 1832-1916 -- Correspondence 11

Crew, F. A. E. (Francis Albert Eley), 1888-1973 -- Correspondence 10

Waddington, Conrad Hal, 1905-1975 -- Correspondence 10

De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956 -- Correspondence 9

Laing, David, 1793-1878 -- Correspondence 9

Swann, Michael Swann, Baron, 1920-1990 -- Correspondence 9

Sheep 7

Animals--Transportation 6

Appleton, Edward Victor, Sir, 1892-1965 -- Correspondence 6

Edinburgh -- Scotland 6

Lectures and Lecturing 6

Libraries 6

Management 6

Hogg, James, 1770-1835 -- Correspondence 5

Rams 5

Shetland sheep 5

Wax seal 5

Absorption 4

Agricultural exhibitions 4

Applications for Positions 4

Ewes 4

Funding 4

Mogul Empire -- History 4

Publications 4

Societies and Clubs 4

Academic Writing 3

British Broadcasting Corporation 3

Chile 3

Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 3

Committees 3

Engraving 3

Ewing, J. A. (James Alfred), 1855-1935 -- Correspondence 3

Farms 3

Horses 3

Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983 -- Correspondence 3

Literature 3

Principals, University 3

Publishers and Publishing 3

Television broadcasting 3

United States 3

Voyages and Travel 3

Wool 3

Accounts 2

Advertising 2

Animal sale 2

Appointment to Office 2

Bibliography 2

Bones 2

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 -- Autographs 2

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 -- Correspondence 2

Canada 2

Canada -- Nova Scotia 2

Celtic studies 2

Conferences 2

Congresses and Conventions 2

Crofters 2

Cross-Breeding 2

DNA 2

Diaries 2

Domestic Animals 2

Economics 2

Embargo 2

English poetry -- 20th century 2

Experiments 2

Hides and Skins 2

Icelandic sheep 2

Job Offers 2

Names, Geographical 2

North Ronaldsay (sheep) 2

North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2

Obituaries 2

Ovis nivicola 2

Performances 2

Persian poetry 2

Physical Characteristics 2

Pregnancy in animals 2

Prehistoric animals 2

Professional Interaction 2

Robertson, William, 1721-1793 -- Correspondence 2

Ryeland (sheep) 2

Sheep breeds 2

Soay sheep 2

Social Interaction 2

Training 2

Abbotsford (Scotland) 1

Administration 1

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Language

English 561

English 345

French 71

Persian 27

German 18

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Multiple languages 12

Italian 7

Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 6

Latin 5

French, Middle (ca.1400-1600) 1

Greek, Modern (1453-) 1

Norwegian 1

Swedish 1

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Names

Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 445

Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and principal of the University of Edinburgh) 196

Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 107

Pollock, Martin Rivers, 1914-1999 (professor of biology, University of Edinburgh) 83

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (historian, essayist and philosopher) 45

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Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 27

Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 20

Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 19

Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 18

Baillie, Anne, 1809-1847 (Former owner of manuscripts) 14

Baillie, John Baillie, of Leys, 1835-1890 (donor of the Oriental Manuscripts Collection) 14

Baillie, John, of Leys, 1772-1833 (Member of Parliament, and East India Company Official) 14

Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist) 12

Turner, Sir William, 1832-1916 (anatomist, professor of anatomy and principal, University of Edinburgh) 12

Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh) 10

Waddington, Conrad Hal, 1905-1975 (embryologist and professor of animal genetics, University of Edinburgh) 10

Swann, Michael Meredith, 1920-1990 (biologist, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh) 9

University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 9

Anderson, Adam, 1797-1853 (Scottish judge and Senator of the College of Justice) 6

Anderson, James, 1758-1833 (Persian Interpretor, East India Company) 6

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

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

Anderson, David, 1750-1828 (Diplomat, East India Company) 5

Hogg, James, 1770-1835 ("The Ettrick Shepherd") 5

Horner, Susan, 1816-1900 (Writer) 5

Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 5

Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 (English biologist) 5

Scottish Home Department. formerly Board of Agriculture for Scotland then Department of Agriculture for Scotland (1928-1939) (1939-:) 5

Watson, James Carmichael, 1910-1942 (Professor of Celtic) 5

Agassiz, Jean Louis, 1807-1873 (Swiss-American naturalist and professor of natural history) 4

Bunbury, Sir Charles James Fox, 1809-1886 (8th Baronet of Barton Hall, Sussex (England) | English naturalist) 4

Byrne, Fanny Horner, 1789-1876 (Married to Irish revolutionary Myles Byrne) 4

Chantrey, Sir Francis Leggatt, 1781-1841 (Knight | English sculptor) 4

Fraser, Marjory Kennedy-, 1857-1930 (singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger) 4

Horner, Frances Joanna, 1814-1894 (Lady Bunbury) 4

Horner, Francis, 1778-1817 (Whig politician, journalist, and political economist) 4

Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 1875-1940 (Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 4

Ballantyne, James, 1772-1883 (solicitor, editor and publisher of Sir Walter Scott and the Novelist's Library) 3

Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 3

Erskine, John Francis Erskine Goodeve, 1836-1930 (27th Earl of Mar, Senior representative Peer for Scotland) 3

Ewing, Sir James Alfred, 1855-1935 (principal, University of Edinburgh) 3

Falconer, Douglas Scott (professor of genetics, University of Edinburgh and director of the Agricultural Research Council, Unit of Animal Genetics) 3

Falconer, Hugh, 1808-1865 (palaeontologist and botanist) 3

Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 3

Gower, Granville George Leveson-, 1815-1891 (2nd Earl Granville | British Liberal statesman and diplomat) 3

Hawkins, John , fl 1832 3

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

James I and VI, 1566-1625 (King of England, Scotland and Ireland) 3

Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard, 1913-2012 (English radio astronomer, pioneer of radar and radio telescopes) 3

Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell, 1850-1926 3

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

Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 3

Russell, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of Bedford, 1858-1940 3

Sang, James Henderson, 1912-2002 (biologist and geneticist) 3

Sonnabend, Yolanda (artist and theatre designer) 3

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 (naturalist) 3

Alexander, W.G., fl 1951 (senior official, Agricultural Research Council) 2

Appel, Axel, fl. 1912 2

Archiac, Adolphe d', 1802-1868 (Vicomte d'Archiac | French geologist and palaeontologist) 2

Auerbach, Charlotte, 1899-1994 (professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh) 2

Aymard, Auguste, 1808-1889 (Prehistorian and Paleontologist) 2

Barrie, James Mathew, Sir, 1860-1937 (novelist and playwright) 2

Beck, Henrik Henriksen, 1799–1863 (Danish naturalist) 2

Binney, Edward William, 1812­-1881 (geologist and founder Manchester Geological Society) 2

Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 (British Egyptologist and antiquarian) 2

Born, Max, 1882-1970 (physicist) 2

Bowden, Nancy, fl 1940s 2

Bruce, Charles Edward Rhodes, 1902-1979, Astronomer and Physicist 2

Buckley, Arabella Burton, 1840 – 1929 (Writer and Educator) 2

Campbell, George John Douglas, 1823-1900 (8th and 1st Duke of Argyll, British polymath and Liberal statesman) 2

Carruthers, William, 1830-1922 (botanist, Keeper of the Department of Botany, British Museum) 2

Charlesworth, Edward, 1813-1893 (English geologist and palaeontologist) 2

Clark, Joseph, 1834-1926 (English painter) 2

Cowan, Alex, fl 1911 (Dalhousie Castle, Bonnyrigg (Scotland)) 2

Croll, James, 1821-1890 (physical geologist and Keeper of Maps and Correspondence, Geological Survey of Scotland) 2

Darbishire, Arthur Dukinfield, 1879-1915 (lecturer in genetics and animal breeding, University of Edinburgh) 2

Davis, Henry Samuel, Major, fl January 1846 (British army officer and artist ) 2

Evans, Sir John, 1823-1908 (archaeologist and numismatist) 2

Guiscardi, William (Guillaume), fl 1860 (Italian volcanologist) 2

Haidinger, Wilhelm, 1795-1871 (Austrian mineralogist) 2

Hartstonge, Matthew Weld, fl 1810s (acquaintance of Sir Walter Scott) 2

Hartung, Georg, 1821 - 1891 (German geologist) 2

Hayes, William, 1913-1994 (professor of molecular genetics, University of Edinburgh) 2

Heer, Oswald, 1809-1883 (Swiss botanist, palaeontologist, entomologist | Professor of Botany, University of Zurich) 2

Hogarth, George, 1783-1870 (Scottish lawyer and newspaper editor) 2

Horner, Anna Susanna, 1786-1862 (née Lloyd | married to Leonard Horner) 2

Howard, William George, 1808-1889 (8th Earl of Carlisle | English clergyman and peer) 2

James, Sir Henry, 1803-1877 (British Army Officer | Director-General of the Ordnance Survey) 2

Jeffreys, John Gwyn, 1809-1885 (British conchologist and malacologist) 2

Jinks, John Leonard, 1929-1987 (geneticist, dean of the faculty of science and engineering, Birmingham University) 2

Judd, John Wesley, 1840-1916 (British geologist) 2

Kean, Charles, 1811-1868 (British actor) 2

Lederberg, Joshua, 1925-2008 (molecular biologist) 2

Lwoff, André Michel, 1902-1994 (microbiologist) 2

Lyell, Charles, 1767-1849 (Scottish botanist, translator of Dante) 2

Macleod, Kenneth, 1871-1955 (Church of Scotland minister and folklorist) 2

Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 (English obstetrician, geologist, paleontologist) 2

Medawar, Peter Brian, 1915-1987 (biologist) 2

Montefiore, Claude Joseph Goldsmid, 1858-1938 (intellectual founder of Anglo-Liberal Judaism) 2

Moore, John Carrick, 1805–1898 (Geologist and Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Wigtown) 2

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