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Papers of Professor R. L. G. Ritchie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-93
Scope and Contents
The papers of Professor Ritchie consist mainly of material relating to a projected work on the French element in Scots. The collection is composed of general and introductory material, notes on purely Scots words, material on phonology, a glossary, a bibliography, and unworked notes on French loanwords and personal names. There is also material on Arthurian studies.
Bibliography of texts read. Schema for...
Dates:
circa 1916
Papers of Professor Richard Penry Ambler
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1577
Scope and Contents
This collection contains material related to molecular biologist Richard Penry Ambler. It reflects a career devoted to research into protein sequencing at the Department of Molecular Biolgy at the University of Edinburgh.
Dates:
1950-2002
Papers of Professor Robert Bertram Serjeant
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1062
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 11 unsorted boxes of papers which contain research notes (linguistics, ethnology and anthropology in South Arabia), bibliography notes, newspapers related to events in South Arabia, photocopies of Arabic manuscripts, typed notes on the political and military situation in Yemen during the 1960s (North Yemen Civil War).
Papers relating to academic research, containing...
Dates:
1940-1980
Papers of Professor Robert Brown
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-648
Scope and Contents
The unsorted material is composed of: circa 90 off-prints articles from botany journals; spring-file containing The effect of the relative length of the light period on the growth of the cucumber; correspondence; off-prints; 3 volumes notebooks with notes and calculations; list of publications by M. M. Yeoman; 5 files containing unfinished manuscripts of Plant growth; miscellaneous files with drawings, notes, and photographs; and wooden...
Dates:
20th century
Papers of Professor Roger Davidson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1497
Scope and Contents
The collection of Papers of Professor Roger Davidson is composed of his material used in the preparation of two of his books: The Sexual State: sexuality and Scottish governance 1950-80 (Edinburgh: EUP, 2012), and Illicit and Unnatural Practices: The Law, Sex and Society in Scotland since 1900 (Edinburgh: EUP, 2019). See the box lists for more details.
Dates:
2000s-2010s (creation of notes and research material themselves); 1880s-1980s (date of source material)
Papers of Professor Sidney T. M. Newman
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1032
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: in Box 1, concertos of C. P. E. Bach (son of Johann Sebastian Bach), an opera The admiral's daughter by Dr. H. F. Henniker (1930) and a symphony in three movements, music and libretto to David Rizzio, and various pieces of music; in Box 2, assorted pieces of music and song, the Fantasia No.1 Mozart with music for violin I and II, viola, v.cello, c.bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, corno,...
Dates:
1920-1968
Papers of Professor Sir D. Neil MacCormick
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1049
Scope and Contents
The Neil MacCormick papers represent the work carried out by Neil MacCormick during his time in office as MEP, 1999-2004. and consist of reports, policy formulation documents, meeting documents, comments and contributions, press releases, newsletters, lectures, conference material, copy news articles and correspondence, including lobbying letters.The collection contains material relating to:Legislative Work;
Policy Shaping;
Rights...
Dates:
1985-2003
Papers of Professor Sir David Wallace
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1540
Scope and Contents
Papers of Professor Sir David Wallace containing undergraduate lecture notes, research material, contracts, presentations and notebooks from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre work; lectures and course material; off-prints; personal papers; and miscellaneous material.The material is arranged as follows:Undergraduate lecture notes and tutorials, Edinburgh University, 1963-1968: this section contains material related to Wallace's undergraduate...
Dates:
1963-1990
Papers of Professor Sir Frederick Henry Stewart
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-691
Scope and Contents
The material is composed of manuscript and typescript letters and notes, testimonials, press-cuttings, printed material from scientific institutions, journal off-prints. There are lecture notes, letters relating to Durham University and Edinburgh University, and notes on the US Salt Conference, America 1952. One box is entirely devoted to evaporates. The box-file contains books and a thesis. The thesis is entitledThe petrology of the Belhelvie district in Aberdeenshireand dated October 1941,...
Dates:
1941-1995
Papers of Professor Sir Kenneth Murray
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1527
Content Description
This archive comprises the personal and working papers of Kenneth Murray, including: awards and honours; biographical materials including photographs and films; material relating to Kenneth's education and early career, including school certificates; personal and professional correspondence; papers relating to Kenneth's's work at the University of Edinburgh, including departmental papers, teaching materials and staff and student files; papers relating to Biogen, including a large number of...
Dates:
1940-2015