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Private devotional writings of William Allan (fl. 1860)

 Fonds
Identifier: MS ALLAN
Scope and Contents

Collection of family prayers, devotional writings, reminiscences, etc.

Dates: 1844-1860
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Prize certificates of Patrick George Craigie, 1859-60, 1860-61

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1457
Scope and Contents 2 prize certificates verifying that Patrick George Craigie attended classes in Mathematics and in Natural Philosophy. These are, in detail: 10 April 1860: Class of Mathematics, session 1859-1860, attending 'with the utmost regularity', and taking 'a very active' part in the oral examinations, and acquitting himself 'most satisfactorily' in the written examinations, Craigie 'obtained a prize', signed by...
Dates: 1859-1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Probate of the Will of William Wallace, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh

 Fonds — Folder: Dk.3.36
Identifier: Coll-2173
Scope and Contents

Creator: Wallace, William, 1768-1843 (Scottish mathematician, astronomer)

Probate of the will of William Wallace, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, 31 May 1843.

Dates: 1843
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Proceedings of a conference - Mycenaean Colloquium 1961 - held in Wisconsin 1961

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1174
Scope and Contents The papers - the proceedings - contain the following pieces: Pylos Tablet Un 1322 - Dr. John Chadwick, Downing College, Cambridge, pp.1-11 Le grafie del wau nella scrittura micenea - Prof. Carlo Gallavotti, Rome, pp.12-22 The origins of Minoan architecture - Prof. J. Walter Graham, University of Toronto, p.23 Overland communications in Greece during LH...
Dates: 1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Professor (Jack) John C. Weston papers, being material relating to the Hugh MacDiarmid editions, 'Collected poems', and 'A Drunk man looks at the thistle'

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1728
Scope and Contents

The collection contains proofs of A Drunk man looks at the thistle edited by Weston, ms and ts research material for the edition, correspondence with a wide range of people in the literary world and in publishing, newspaper cuttings, journal articles, and other printed ephemera.the Weston

Dates: 1920-1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Proof draft copy of 'An Exotick and Irrational Entertainment' by Murray Dickie

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1696
Scope and Contents Proof draft of the unpublished memoirs of Murray Dickie. With pencil editorial notes to the first page of Chapter 1 by Gritta Weil, long-time an editorial secretary at the Observer.Title-page and 211pp, A4, printed on verso, with a covering page titled 'Copy'.This unpublished memoir recounts a career noting especially relationships with Sir Thomas Beecham, Furtwangler and Von Karajan, as well as giving character sketches of other...
Dates: fl. 1945-1980
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Proofs and Evidences of Bursaries to the College of Edinburgh

 Fonds — Box: EUA-A-59, Volume: EUA GD2
Identifier: EUA GD2
Scope and Contents

'Proofs and Evidences of Bursaries to the College of Edinburgh. Extracted from the Council Records and Inventory of the City's Charter House.', previously the property of 'Robert Johnston Esq.', thought to be Robert Johston, merchant in Edinburgh, who died circa 1838.

Dates: August 1813
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Proofs of the descriptive catalogue of Western Mediaeval Manuscripts by Catherine R. Borland

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1192
Identifier: Coll-1453
Scope and Contents The collection of proofs is composed of the title page and duplicates of Plates I-XII of Borland's catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Edinburgh University Library (catalogue available online (external link)).There is also a covering letter from D. Campbell (T. and A. Constable; University Press) dated and placed at Edinburgh 30 October 1915, to Miss C. R. Borland, 149 Warrender...
Dates: 1914-1915
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Psychology notes of Faith Glover, psychology student, 1960s

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1585
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of 2 x notebooks, one with hard-board red cover and red spine binding, and the other with soft-card covering. The former bears a title plate with the name 'Faith Glover' and the word 'Psychology', and scored out in ink are the words 'St. Paul's Girls' School / Brook Green'. The contents are dated from 16 October 1961 and are manuscript notes of experiments. The latter notebook, on the first page, bears the name 'F. Glover / c/o SRC Office' and the title...
Dates: 1960s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Public Health Department of the City of Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: LHB16
Scope and Contents

Management and administration 1865-1982; patients (bound and unbound records) 1908-1997

Dates: 1865-1997
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

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Hall, Edward, b 1898 (Bookseller) 6
Koestler, Arthur, CBE, 1905-1983 (Hungarian-British author and journalist) 6
Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 6
Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 5
Church of Scotland 5
Erskine, Ralph, Rev, 1685-1752 (minister and poet) 5
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 5
Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature) 5
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Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 5
Playfair, William Henry, 1790-1857 (architect) 5
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 5
Roslin Institute 5
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 5
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 5
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University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Library 5
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Animal Breeding Research Organisation. ABRO (1945 - 1986) 4
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Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 4
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 (professor, University of Edinburgh) 4
Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899 (Minister of Pilrig and Temperance Reformer) 4
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 4
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
Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 4
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 4
Monro, Alexander, 1697-1767 ("Primus", Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, 1874-1969 (missionary and ecumenist) 4
Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Poultry Research Centre (1947-1986) (research institution) 4
Smith, Sydney Alfred, Sir, 1883-1969 (Professor of Forensic Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 4
University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 4
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 4
Auerbach, Charlotte, 1899-1994 (professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh) 3
Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, 1813-1865 (lawyer, poet, professor of Belles Lettres at University of Edinburgh) 3
Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 3
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 3
Born, Max, 1882-1970 (physicist) 3
Bruce, William Speirs, 1867-1921 (polar explorer and oceanographer) 3
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 3
Church Missionary Society 3
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Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 (English military and political leader) 3
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and metalurgist) 3
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
Grant, John, fl 1955 (Bookseller) 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
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
Stewart, Sir Thomas Grainger, 1837-1900 (Physician, President of the BMA) 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