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Morrison, William Kenneth
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-23
Scope and Contents
Notes and extracts about life in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 1889-1904; notes on a speech by Sir Joseph Lister 1891; notes on Residency Log 1911-1912; correspondence 1968-1971
Dates:
1889-1971
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Mouse Atlas Archive: Matthew H Kaufman collection of glass slides showing sections of mouse embryos at various stages of development
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1829
Content Description
Collection of histological sections on glass slides of the mouse embryo at all stages of development created by Professor Matthew Kaufman between c. 1975-1990. Also includes two volumes for which the collection was used ('The Anatomical Basis of Mouse Development' and 'Kaufman's Atlas of Mouse Development Supplement - with coronal sections'); a file of supporting documents (an index to the embryos in each box and the identification of sections used in the Atlas); and prints of cross-sections...
Dates:
Existence: Majority of material found within 1975-1990
Ms book of cookery and recipes, begun by Lady Nina Balfour and given to Victoria Alexandrine Montagu Scott, 1864, and continued over 80 years
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1318
Identifier: Coll-1741
Content Description
Ms book of cookery and recipes, begun by Lady Nina Balfour and continued by Victoria Alexandrine Montagu Scott over 80 years. Bound volume with upper cover having gilt monogram 'V.A.'. Ms on paper. Calligraphic dedication leaf with mounted photograph of Lady Nina Balfour (dated December 1864).Lady Nina's opening pages are decorated, and have recipes and illustrations for Scottish staples: Sheep's Head Pie, Cockie Leekie, Porridge, Fish & Sauce, plus Kedgeree, and boiled...
Dates:
1864
Ms common-place book containing 37 contributions including poems, hymns, drawings and prose items, c. 1831-1835
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1684
Scope and Contents
A specifically prepared luxury volume as issued by Delarue, Cornish and Rock. Items include: 'Epitaph on professor Young of Glasgow'; 'The Traveller', a poem; 'List of Ministers names who are or have been in the Kirk of Scotland'; 'Translation of one of the Odes in the Media'; 'Hymns Constitutional de Portugal composta por Sua Altera Real Dom Pedro Quarto' with music; 'An essay upon an Apple', a poem; 'The Poets Bride', a poem, and 'Thine Album'.
Dates:
1831-1835
MS documents relating to Sir John Spencer Login, and proposing the use of specially constructed litters for battlefield casualties
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1396
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of:
MS memorandum (pp.11) titled Field conveyance for the sick and wounded signed J. S. Login, and dated 30 June 1857, Castle Menzies, Perthshire. The document outlines Login's idea and the approaches made to the War Office and the subsequent bureaucratic referrals. The War Office subsequently undertook the manufacture of a 'blessiere' to the design...
Dates:
1855-1857
Ms engineering journal of James Pugh Kirkwood, relating to Pensacola docks in Florida, and projects elsewhere
Item — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1795 / SC-Acc-2017-0006
Identifier: Coll-1795
Content Description
This manuscript engineering journal is in two parts, spanning the period of Kirkwood's career associated with the Pensacola docks in Florida, 1845-1847, but also covering the period 1871-1877 providing a wealth of information on the occupation of the USA's most important civil engineers.The content is: copy letters which offer a detailed account of the exigencies of the task at Pensacola; and, diary or journal entries.The volume also has - at the end - a combination...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1845-1877
Ms lecture notes and research notes of Professor William Croft Dickinson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1607
Scope and Contents
The lecture notes are composed of four groupings:
- Honours 1
- Untitled
- Honours IV
- Honours V
Dickinson's research notes are contained in a 2-drawer (wooden) card-index file.
Dates:
1944-1963
Ms lecture notes on the 'Plant and its Food' by Stevenson Macadam (1829-1901), Lecturer Professor of Chemistry, Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1669
Scope and Contents
Ms botanical lecture notes with diagram entitled The plant and its food by Stevenson Macadam. octo, 7pp. 'Britannia' watermarks.
Dates:
1855-1859
MS letter (autograph signed) by Violet Jacob
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1462
Scope and Contents
This MS letter, addressed to 'Dear Sir', was written by Violet Jacob at Domaine de la Congue, Vence, in the Alpes Maritimes, France, on 6 April [no year] and presumably in 1936, given the reference in the letter to 'the honour done'. 1936 was the year in which she received the LL.D. from Edinburgh University. Domaine de la Congue is the location of a French 'Maison de retraite', a sanatorium for veterans today. The letter tells of how the letter reached her 'after various adventures' and...
Dates:
1915-1917
Ms letter from Thomas Carlyle to Peter Millar Cunningham, 4 December 1843
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1318
Identifier: Coll-1740
Content Description
Ms letter from Thomas Carlyle, 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, to Peter Millar Cunningham, Surgeon Royal Navy, 4 December 1843.The letter reads:
I have received your little Essay on Compass Variations, and read it over with great satisfaction. It is a most ingenious little speculation, or rather big speculation in little bulk; and had it even otherwise, it would have pleasantly brought you to our new embrace, and been very welcome in this hour.
You never come to us now; it is...
Dates:
4 December 1843