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Material relating to John Lowe
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1502
Scope and Contents
A bound collection of pamphlets and off-prints, mostly on botanical subjects, which contain working notes of John Lowe and some watercolours which may be his too. There is a MS table of contents which lists nearly all the items but not in the order they are bound. The MS additions include: details of dated sightings, with place, to 'Bennett Notes on Norfolk plants'; and, MS notes of commentaries on the works. There is an autograph letter, 10 December 1898, from H.E. Brown of the...
Dates:
1856-1898
Material relating to John W. L. Spence
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1273
Scope and Contents
Within the collection there is an autograph letter signed from the X-ray pioneer to 'My dear Forbes' on their leaving the Royal High School, placed and dated as Edinburgh (Dalhousie Terrace), 13 March 1889. The letter was written when Spence was 17-years old. He writes, 'In parting with you I part from a friend, and I hope you will not take it as an insult when I say that I have a greater liking for you than I ever had for any of my companions'. He hopes Forbes reached home safely, and he is...
Dates:
1889
Material relating to medical student John Sinclair Manson graduating 1906
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1650
Scope and Contents
The collection contains:
1 x Certificate - Board of Education, South Kensington - John S. Manson - 2nd Class, Advanced, in the Examination in Nautical and Spherical Astronomy - 1902
1 x Certificate - Board of Education, South Kensington - John S. Manson - 2nd Class, Stage 2, in the Examination in Navigation - 1904
1 x Bronze medal - Edinburgh University - 1903-1904 - J....
Dates:
1902-1927
Material relating to Michael Radcliffe Lee, Emeritus Professor
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1442
Scope and Contents
The collection contains:
2 x copies D.Phil thesis, University of Oxford, Brasenose College, 1965: 'The estimation of renin in biological fluids'.
The collection also includes 6 volumes of off-prints of Lee's articles covering the years 1965-1996. The volumes contain:
Volume 1 -...
Dates:
1965-1996
Material relating to period spent at St. Trinnean's School, Edinburgh, and at Edinburgh School of Cookery by Florence Bruce Steven
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1162
Scope and Contents
- Photograph album - dated 28 August 1926 - Florence B. Dorward - St. Trinnean's School, Edinburgh
- Photograph - Group - 1926-1927 - St. Trinnean's School, Edinburgh - Whole school
- Photograph - Group - 1933 - St. Trinnean's School, Edinburgh - Whole school
- Photograph - June 1986 - Florence Bruce Steven (right) with friend (left)
- Drawing -...
Dates:
1926-2000
Material relating to Professor Alfred Edward Taylor
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-710
Scope and Contents
The material is composed of: newspaper cuttings; notes; family papers including those relating to the Rev. Ernest Wesley Taylor; photograph of the Rev. E.W.Taylor; and, copies of off-prints, proceedings, journals, includingTruth and practicereprinted from thePhilosophical reviewVol.14. No.3. May 1905, a 1908 copy ofCollege echoesfrom St. Andrews university, a 1901 copy ofMissionary notes. The Australian Board of Missions, and a 1905 copy ofWest Australia Church Newsfrom Perth, Australia.
Dates:
1903-1910
Material relating to Professor George Chrystal
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1491
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: 1 x letter from Professor George Chrystal to the Rt. Hon. The Prime Minister [Herbert Henry Asquith, 1908-1916] from 5 Belgrave Crescent, Edinburgh, 12 June 1911. The letter, in effect turns down the honour of a knighthood 'on the occasion of His Majesty's approaching Coronation'. He was, in the first place, 'at this moment suffering from the effects of severe illness' and it would be several months before he could 'appear in London or take part in...
Dates:
1890-1911
Material relating to R. Macgregor, being 'The domestic buffalo'
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1238
Scope and Contents
This paper on The domestic buffalo in Malaysia consists of 71-pages, numbered, together with a loose covering letter at rear addressed to Professor Francis Albert Eley Crew (1886-1973), Professor of Animal Genetics at Edinburgh University, and supporting the content of the paper. It contains chapters on zoological classification, anatomy and physiology, buffalo farming, and diseases. There are c.23 black and white photographs pasted in. The...
Dates:
1938
Material relating to research into plantation industry in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1324, Folder: Coll-1813 / SC-Acc-2017-0062
Identifier: Coll-1813
Content Description
This small collection consists of the material collected by Dr Tom Barron, for his research into the plantation industry in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and the British community there. Having not found any surviving records when he visited Ceylon (Sri Lanka), he decided to search for private papers, including by publishing a call in the Quaterly Bulletin no. 151 of the Ceylon Association in London, for personal papers and experiences relating to planting and business ventures in Ceylon in the 19th...
Dates:
1969-1972
Material relating to Robert Garioch Sutherland
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1604
Scope and Contents
The ephemeral manuscript and typescript material is composed of:
1 x prisoner-of-war postcard (Poste Italiane. Cartolina Postale. Per Prigionieri di Guerra). From Sutherland, Robert G. Signalman 2372691, to [his father] Mr. Robert G. Sutherland, Bellevue Road, Edinburgh. He writes about 'boredom, and there are worse things'. He is 'out of isolation now, and that is a good thing'. He is smoking his pipe...
Dates:
1942-1958