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Papers of Sir David Smith, Principal of Edinburgh University, 1987-1994
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1085
Scope and Contents
The boxes contain 39 files and 3 scrapbooks. The files cover a variety of subjects, from: appointment as Principal; financial crisis; recovery plan; restructuring; graduation addresses; talks and speeches; anglicisation; new University logo; and, the installation of Muriel Gray as rector. The scrapbooks contain cuttings or copies of cuttings on: the closure of the Dental School; the anglicisation of Edinburgh University; attacks on the University as inefficient; league tables; cuttings...
Dates:
1986-2006
Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton
Fonds — Box: MS.2300
Identifier: Coll-37
Scope and Contents
The papers, which are substantial, deal almost exclusively with Appleton's scientific work. There is little personal or private correspondence and almost no surviving material, apart from lectures, speeches and addresses, relating to his public life as scientific administrator or university principal. There are, however, a good run of diaries and engagement books and extensive folders of notes, research ideas, manuscript calculations and data from all periods of Appleton's career, as well as...
Dates:
c 1918-1973
Papers of Sir George Ballingall
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-53
Scope and Contents
The Sir George Ballingall material is composed of correspondence and papers, 1801-1855. In March 1995, when researching in Edinburgh University Library, Dr. Roger Cooter of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, in Manchester, dictated the papers onto tape and produced transcripts of about 70 per cent of the documents, following the order in which they had been placed in the original boxes. The transcripts, produced in haste, and which may not be accurate in detail, have been placed...
Dates:
1801-1855
Papers of Sir Gerald Elliot
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1357
Scope and Contents
The collection of papers is composed of (in Boxes 1 & 2) material in the form of memos, notes, lectures, off-prints, talks, illustrations, press cuttings, and correspondence, relating to:
- Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Scottish Council Development and Industry
- company structures and company responsibilities
- companies and institutions with which Sir Gerald...
Dates:
1950-2013
Papers of Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-8
Scope and Contents
The papers of Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour consist of material relating to work on the flora of Socotra, 1883; letters; class tickets from 1871 and into the mid-1870s; notebook; notes; lecture notes; University of Glasgow class catalogues; material relating to the University of Edinburgh Commission of 1858, and its Reports on Botany, and Botany in the Arts Curriculum; material on the Universities Scotland Bill; and, material on botany excursions.
Dates:
circa 1870-1920
Papers of Sir John Graham Dalyell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-244
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of some 158 volumes of notebooks of manuscript notes and printed matter. The subjects of the notebooks are wide and varied: antiquities, superstitions, human society, tours, musical practice, natural history, rare and remarkable animals, properties of animals, terabella littoralis, ichthology, the will of the creator, the power of the creator, experiments and observations, punishments, and extracts from records. There are references and bibliographies too. The printed...
Dates:
19th century
Papers of Sir John Jackson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1490
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of the papers of Sir John Jackson, including:
Photograph albums.
Albums of newspaper clippings relating to Sir John Jackson's work, and to his and his family's personal life.
Personal and business correspondence.
Material relating to Sir John Jackson's candidacy as MP for Devonport in 1904, 1906, and 1910.
...
Dates:
1838-2002
Papers of Sir John Macdonald Kinneir
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2253
Scope and Contents
Papers of Sir John Macdonald Kinneir, including a letterbook with two maps enclosed, and a portfolio containing newspaper clippings, large sheets of papers of Arabic calligraphy, and correspondence, all dating from c. 1827-1830.
Dates:
1827-1830
Papers of Sir John Smith Flett
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-100
Scope and Contents
Manuscript copy and typed copy of Flett's account of his student days at Edinburgh University, 1886-1894.
Dates:
1886-1894
Papers of Sir Robert H. Matthew
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-89
Scope and Contents
A first tranche of papers of Sir Robert Hogg Matthew (acquired 1980) is composed largely of office papers, but does include personal material, letters of knighthood, and speeches. Otherwise, the papers are composed of: R.I.B.A material; and, material relating to other organisations including the Scottish Civic Trust; material relating to Department of the Environment enquiries; conference material, including the Vancouver Conference on the Environment; and, material on buildings in Hong...
Dates:
circa 1947-1979