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Material relating to Jay L. Lush, being 'The genetics of populations'
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1239
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of a paper ( a 'mimeo' copy) on The genetics of populations. The paper consists of 364-pages, numbered. It contains chapters on general or static populations, forces which change gene frequency, mating systems, and appropriate breeding plans. On the title page is handwritten in ink: H. P. Donald (presumably of the Animal Breeding Research Organisation, Edinburgh, of which he became Director in 1951), August 1949. There...
Dates:
1948
Material relating to John Dover Wilson, Regius Professor of English Literature
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1519
Scope and Contents
Collection contains:
1 x recipe book
1 x notebook: 'Ye monthly Brer', from January 1894
1 x bundle assorted postcards (11) send from John Dover Wilson to Dorothy Baldwin before their marriage in 1906, being illustrations of: Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen (2), Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Darwin, John Ruskin, Professor Huxley, John Burns, G. F. Watts, and cartoon...
Dates:
1905-1964
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