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Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-11
Scope and Contents
The papers cover the years 1876 to 1910 and contains a great many autograph letters from eminent anatomists and medical men, including ten letters from Joseph Lister. There is also a substantial sequence of notebooks and working papers containing detailed notes of experiments and dissections together with drawings and drafts for lectures, and a separate sequence of manuscripts for lectures and addresses. An item of particular interest is an album of 96 photographs from Cunningham's service...
Dates:
c 1876-1910
Papers and Correspondence of H. B. Cruickshank
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-81
Scope and Contents
The Papers and Correspondence of Helen Burness Cruickshank include letters connected with her career in the Civil Service, and retirement from it, covering the years 1913-1945; an engagements diary for 1972; an address book of friends; autobiographical notes; contributions to PEN; letters; short stories; lectures, talks and speeches; notes for articles; accounts and reviews; a horoscope. There is holograph and typescript material, drafts of poems, pencil sketches, a scrapbook, cuttings, and...
Dates:
1900-1972
Papers and correspondence of John Cunningham
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-30
Scope and Contents
The papers include full documentation (case histories, experimental notes and data) of Cunningham's medical researches in India, and in particular of his prolonged and exhaustive work on the bacteriology and immunology of relapsing fever, and the major programme on the treatment of rabies which he instituted on his appointment as Director of the Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, (where over 8,000 cases a year were treated). There are also records of the work on vaccine lymph carried out at the...
Dates:
1905-1968
Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-490
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers, articles, correspondence, publications, photographs, audio-visual material, and artefacts of Professor George "Sam" Shepperson, a prominent scholar of African and American African history, and Malawi specialist. This includes, among other things, papers and correspondence relating to central and eastern Africa with special reference to Malawi and Tanzania (including correspondence of Julius Nyerere); papers on nationalism in Nyasaland (Malawi), including...
Dates:
late 19th-century - late 20th century
Papers and Correspondence of Sir James Mackenzie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-84
Scope and Contents
Many of the papers of Sir James Mackenzie are unindexed. The collection consists of correspondence, largely from the 1900s to the 1920s; notebooks; photographs of people and hospital locations; plans; medical journal articles and other printed material; bundles of notes; reviews of his work; assorted cuttings and typescripts. There is also an album of cuttings and notices, and Mackenzie's birth certificate.
Dates:
circa 1900-1940
Papers and letters of Sir John Dalrymple, on the subject of fish soap
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1917
Scope and Contents
Papers and letters of Sir John Dalrymple, on the subject of "fish soap from herrings", 1798-1799.
Dates:
1798-1799
Papers and other material relating to C. Wyville Thomson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1327
Scope and Contents
The material in the collection consists of:
- at E94.90: a letter from Charles Wyville Thomson written on 2 June 1850 at the home of the Reverend Ainslie and addressed to 'My Dear Sir' - it refers to how he had met with a kind reception from Mr. and Mrs. Ainslie who 'pressed him to dine with them and to take a bed at their home', and how the following day they were to take him to Sir David Brewster's -...
Dates:
1841-1874
Papers and slides of Rev. George Hastie, Edinburgh University former student
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1946
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of the lectures notes, photographs and slides of Rev. George Hastie, student at the University of Edinburg in the late 1960s. The lecture notes were taken by Hastie for his MA course at Edinburgh Univertsity between 1967 and 1970. The slides show photographs taken by Hastie in 1966, 1967 and 1968. Also includes a rectorial election leaflet entitled 'The Making of a Rector', printed for the Tom Hutton Campaign in 1968.1. The lecture notes include a complete set...
Dates:
1966-1970
Papers by Arthur Pollok Sym, John Gibson Cazenove, Henry Drummond, Thomas Burns, R.H. Gray and Arthur Warren
Fonds
Identifier: Ms BOX 14.1
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1883-1929
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers from the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Library (1673-1978)
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 48
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1673-1978
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections