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Notes taken by William Berry at law lectures

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1126
Scope and Contents The law notes are composed of: Scots Law - 2 volumes Civil Law - De Pactis etc Roman Law - Edinburgh Session 1886-87 Constitutional History Personal Law (possibly Cambridge) Law of Contract (Cambridge 1883) Jurisprudence International Law 1884-85 Roman Law ...
Dates: 1883-1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes taken by William S. Mitchell at lectures by Charles Sarolea

 Fonds — Box: Gen.784, Folder: Gen.784/2
Identifier: Coll-1659
Scope and Contents

Notes taken by William S. Mitchell at lectures on French literature given by Charles Sarolea. This is most likely William Smith Mitchell, who graduated MA in 1932.

Dates: 1927-1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

"Notgeld" albums containing small illustrated German and Austrian notes

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1861
Scope and Contents This collection is composed of two albums containing a collection of Notgeld, or 'emergency money' printed in Germany after all the low-value coins had vanished due to a shortage in metal during the inter-war period. Most notes are dating from 1921. They are called 'vouchers' rather than actual bank notes, and have an expiration date. They have very little actual monetary value: most of them are around 50 pfennige (pennies) ;...
Dates: early 1920s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Nouveaux souvenirs d'Holyrood

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1181
Scope and Contents

The unsigned letters, mostly from Edinburgh, were all written during November or December 1831. They describe a trip from Paris to Edinburgh, and life among the French refugees there. Although the last word has been obliterated, an inscription reads: 'Quoique l'auteur ne se nomme pas, tout le monde le reconnait pour M. le Baron de [...]'. On the inside of the front cover is pasted a note reading, 'Pour mes pauvres petites filles de France', and signed Louise.

Dates: 1831
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Offprints of Francis Albert Eley Crew

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1496
Scope and Contents

Collection is partially catalogued. Contains 86 volumes and one box of unbound offprints belonging to F.A.E. Crew. The offprints have been divided by subject (for instance, The Fowl, Genetics. Drosophila). Many offprints bear Crew's signature; some are inscribed to him by individual authors.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900-1940
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Oldham Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: GD2
Scope and Contents The collection contains: Oldham's correspondence (1892-1965) including references to Oldham's conversion and his work in India with the YMCA, to his work to promote co-operation between missions and denominations such as through the 1910 World Missionary Conference, the 1937 Oxford conference and the World Council of Churches, to German missionaries in World War 1 and Germany in the 1930s, to Indian and African (particularly educational and East African) issues, to the establishment of the...
Dates: 1892-1990
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Olroyd, Elizabeth

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-5
Scope and Contents Pass certificate as Practical Nurse 1910; Pass certificate from Central Midwives Board 1910; letter from Central Midwives Board 1910; certificate of admission to General Nursing Council for England and Wales 1923; blank application form for state registered badge of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales; notes on cancer of the womb by Central Midwives Board 1908; notes on opthalmia neonatorum by Central Midwives Board 1909; Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service...
Dates: 1908-1938
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

One letter with transcript from John Hill Burton to My Dear Morton

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1566
Scope and Contents The manuscript letter dated 20 December 1878, signed 'J H Burton' to 'My Dear Morton', probably the Edinburgh solicitor Charles Morton. Burton regretfully declines an invitation as 'prudence forbids. I have not dined out in Edinburgh for 10 years fidning it dangerous [...] I felt always the worse when I dined with Russel or any other good fellow, so took a self denying ordnance'. He is sending 'a little book', preferring it to his others because 'it is personal to the author. Farther it may...
Dates: 1878
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Oral history recordings made as part of the 'Towards Dolly' project

 Fonds
Identifier: EUA CA15
Scope and Contents

Contains: Alan Archibald interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Adrian Bird interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Grahame Bulfield and William G. Hill in conversation; Grahame Bulfield interview (with Clare Button); Nick Hastie interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Peter Sharp interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Andrew Tait interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Gerald Wiener interview (with Clare Button); Ian Wilmut interview (with Grahame Bulfield).

Dates: 2 July 2014 - 20 March 2015
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Order of service for communion table, plate and lectern dedication at Kings College Chapel, Aberdeen

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MIL 2
Scope and Contents

Order of service in King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, at the dedication of table for Holy Communion, of communion plate, and of lectern, in memory of the late Very Rev. Professor Milligan, D. D., Monday, 24th October, 1898.

Folio volume, 29 untrimmed pages, Aberdeen University Press.

Copy presented by Prof. William Milligan's widow, Annie Mary Moir, to the General Assembly Library.

Dates: 1898
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 4
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Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 4
Dunfermline College of Physical Education 4
Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 4
Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 4
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 4
Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 4
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 4
Monro, Alexander, 'primus', 1697-1767 (Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, 1874-1969 (missionary and ecumenist) 4
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University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 4
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 4
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 3
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Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 3
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Born, Max, 1882-1970 (physicist) 3
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Church Missionary Society 3
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Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon) 3
Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1868-1974) 3
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (historian, philosopher) 3
Gregory, James, 1753-1821 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 3
Hood, Helen Patuffa, 1889-1967 (harpist) 3
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 3
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research - Edinburgh Research Station. IAPGR (1986-1993) 3
Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 3
Knox, John, c 1513-1572 (Scottish preacher) 3
Laws, Robert, 1851-1934 (Scottish missionary) 3
Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988 (Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 3
Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 3
London Missionary Society 3
Love , John, Rev Dr, 1757-1825 (Church of Scotland minister ) 3
Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 3
Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959 (poet, novelist and translator) 3
Muir, Willa, 1890-1970 (novelist, essayist and translator) 3
Nyerere, Julius Kambarage, 1922-1999 (President of Tanzania) 3
Pillans, James (Regent, University of Edinburgh) 3
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh) 3
Stevens, William Victor, 1900-1987 (President of the University of Edinburgh Graduates' Association) 3
Syme, James, 1799-1870 (Scottish pioneering surgeon; Professor of clinical surgery at the University of Edinburgh) 3
Torrance, Thomas Forsyth, 1913-2007 (theologian, and Professor of Christian Dogmatics at New College, Edinburgh) 3
Tragara Pressnn 3
University of Aberdeen (1495-:) 3
Wodrow, Robert, 1679-1734 (Church of Scotland minister, historian and antiquarian) 3
Adlard and Son (1766-) 2
Ambler, Richard Penry, 1933-: (professor of protein chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 2
Anderson, John, 1668-1721 (Minister of Dumbarton) 2
Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and principal of the University of Edinburgh) 2
Baikie, Hugh Edward, 1906-1981 (Church of Scotland missionary to India) 2
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley, 1853-1922 (professor of botany, University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh) 2
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, 1825-1894 (Scottish writer) 2
Bell, George Joseph, 1770-1843 (advocate, Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh) 2