Extracts and notes on natural history, c1770
Item
Identifier: Coll-205/4/2 (Dc.2.37)
Scope and Contents
Extracts chiefly from Sir Robert Sibbald's books and MSS on natural history in the Advocates' Library. Subjects include minerals, antiquities (e.g., Roman epigraphy, bones in medieval battlefields), sea and animal life, native customs (magical scarves that cattlemen's wives once wore), geographic curiosities (a cliff that shines in the sun, a natural hole of unsoundable depth, there being no frogs in Getland, etc.) Approximately 178 handwritten pages.
Authorship not known with certainty. At least two people.
Authorship not known with certainty. At least two people.
Dates
- c1770
Creator
- Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman) (Person)
Language of Materials
English Latin
Physical Description
1 bound volume
Extent
From the Fonds: 1 metre approx
Physical Description
1 bound volume
Archivist's Note
Duncan Fisher 18 March 2002
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
is-crc@ed.ac.uk