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"Recueil de Desseins Ridicules", by Georges Focus

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1945
Scope and Contents This is a bound manuscript volume containing approx. 125 pen-and-ink drawings by Georges Focus, often signed by the author and sometimes dated 1694 or 1695. This artwork was produced during his confinement at the Parisian asylum 'Les Petites Maisons', where he was sent in 1680. The illustrations represent various scenes, such as episodes of the artist’s life taking place in mainly Parisian or Roman settings, and excerpts from Virgile Travesti by the poet...
Dates: 1694-1695
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Reid, Thomas

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-97
Scope and Contents

League of Subscribers of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh membership card belonging to Thomas Reid, n.d.

Dates: Undated [20th century?]
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Reid, Winifred

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-15
Scope and Contents

Letters relating to photographs 1983; photographs 1932-1936

Dates: 1932-1983
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Remission for carrying arms, for William Scott, Edinburgh, 5 June 1621

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1743
Content Description

Remission for carrying arms, for William Scott, Edinburgh, 5 June 1621, together with translation by Dr. Jean Dunlop, Edinburgh, and covering letter referring to same dated 16 December 1957.

Dates: 5 June 1621
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Report of the Committee on the Management of the Poor

 Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 35.4
Scope and Contents

See External Documents (below) for details.

Dates: 1841
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Reports on visits to Sichuan and Wenchuan by Thomas F. Torrance

 Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 3
Identifier: CSWC 96
Dates: Majority of material found within 1986, 1994
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Reprints and lectures of Alan William Greenwood

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1700
Scope and Contents

Contains 7 bound volumes of Alan Greenwood's reprints and three folders of lectures and articles by Greenwood.

Dates: 1923-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Research Archive of David Sugden

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2044
Content Description

This fonds consists of the research archive of Professor David Sugden, including:


  1. His original thesis;
  2. Originals and printed copies of his fieldtrip diaries and four boxes of accompanying slides,
  3. Autobiographical texts reflecting on his career, and a detailed CV including a bibliography;
  4. Copies of his published papers.
Dates: 1962-2022
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Research Archive of Gordon H. K. Lawson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1737
Content Description

This collection consists of extensive research notes, experiment notes, and experimental material (slides, USB, compact disks) covering the research by Gordon H.K. Lawson and Rebecca A. Mackie on Lawsonia intracellularis. Other additional material includes a small amount of correspondence, a doctoral thesis by Neil MacIntyre AIBMS from 2001, and copies of academic papers (journals).

Dates: 1972-2013
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Research archive of John Martin concerning the History of Student Theatre at the University of Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1942
Scope and Contents The fonds consists of the research archive of John Martin relating to his on-going project on student theatre, which aims to compile a history of student theatre in Edinburgh from 1850 to 1970. In order to understand the wider student context in which theatre groups had arisen, John Martin started to work on two "spin-off" projects to support his research: one on student numbers at the University of Edinburgh between 1836 and 1966, and a second one on student societies in Edinburgh...
Dates: 2017-2021
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 139
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 12
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1729-:) 11
Barker, Robert, 1739-1806 (Irish artist) 8
Moray House College of Education (1959-1991) 8
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 7
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 (Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College) 7
Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 7
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner) 7
Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 7
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 7
Barker, Henry Aston, 1774-1856 (Artist) 6
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 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
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
Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 5
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 5
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
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 5
University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Library 5
Victor Gollancz Ltd 5
Animal Breeding Research Organisation. ABRO (1945 - 1986) 4
Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 4
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
Monro, Alexander, 'primus', 1697-1767 (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
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 3
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
Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 3
Church Missionary Society 3
Combe, George, 1788-1858 (Phrenologist) 3
Cowan House (student hall of residence) 3
Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh) 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
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