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Class cards, tickets, and letters of testimonial of John Brown, Thomas S. Brown and William B. Clark
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1156
Scope and Contents
The material spans 1824 to 1835. There is one class card in the name of William B. Clark. In addition there is a printed document dated 27 April 1831 and published by the Royal College of Surgeons in London which notes the regulations respecting the professional education of candidates for the College's diploma. There are 34 cards and tickets relating to John Brown and his study path. There are 21 cards and tickets relating to Thomas S. Brown, including one of which is an Edinburgh Academy...
Dates:
1824-1835
Class list of Alexander Monro (primus)
Fonds — Volume: EUA GD60
Identifier: EUA GD60
Scope and Contents
Small volume containing lists of scholars (students), their masters (surgeons who they were apprenticed to) and fees paid. In addition there are some details of boarders (1722-1736). Folded inside the volume is a copy letter of 28 June 1945 from the donor, James Watt WS, to Lord Amulree, sent to Univerity Librarian, Lauriston William Sharp.
Dates:
1720-1749
Class notes - Lectures on Agriculture and Entemology, given by Professor Wallace and Dr. Fream
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1283
Scope and Contents
This volume in typescript contains careful notes on these two series of lectures at the University of Edinburgh. The first series, by Professor Robert Wallace (1853-1939), Chair of Agriculture, covers dairying, with extensive coverage of the different types of cheese and their production. The second, by Dr. William Fream, covers agricultural entomology, essentially the varieties of pests that attack crops. There are ink drawings throughout. Spine-title and title-page both...
Dates:
1905-1906
Clermiston Estate Papers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-720
Scope and Contents
This archive relates to the Clermiston Estate and to the Dick family and includes papers particular to, and signed by, Sir Alexander Dick (1703-1785), a notable medical man of the time. The papers, mostly legal, include: instruments of sasine, heritable bonds, bonds of corroboration, documents of discharge and renunciation, searches of incumbrances, a plan of Cramond Muir Road, a sketch of parts of Cramond Moor, a description of Clermiston House, measurement of turnips sold on the Estate,...
Dates:
1741-1850
Clinical cases of Dr. Rutherford and Dr. Gregory, November 1793
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1326
Scope and Contents
An index at the beginning of this substantial volume of clinical case notes lists 28 women and 31 men with their symptoms and treatment recorded in manuscript notes over more than 600 pages. The manuscript offers much information on the methods of these two leading 18th century Scottish physicians.
Dates:
1793
"Collectanea Scotica" by G. E. Kinloch
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1130
Scope and Contents
This bound volume contains copies of letters, these being:
copy of letter by Sir George McKenzie to the Lord Balcarres, 1684
copy letter from Sir George Mackenzie to the Earls of Moray and Middleton
copy letter John, Duke of Lauderdale, 1680
copy letter Elizabeth, Countess of Dysart, after Duchess of Lauderdale
copy letters Field...
Dates:
1820-1829
Collection of 4 Manuscript music books containing music for pipes
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1429
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of:
1 x manuscript volume - 12 pages with ornamental borders - name James Morrison, Scroggie Hill, 20 October 1875
1 x manuscript volume - 42 pages with ornamental borders - name Jas. Morison, 23 October 1878
1 x manuscript volume - 16 pages which includes rubber stamp of J.M. Miller, Musical Repository, Perth, and name James Morrison,...
Dates:
1875-1893
Collection of 65 Scottish charters and other documents, from 1402 to 1699, in Latin and Scots, some with seals
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1242
Scope and Contents
The collection of 65 Scottish charters and documents, on vellum and paper, is composed of the following:
Charter between Alexander, Abbot of Scone, entirely in Early Scots, on vellum, dated 21 August 1402, 270mm. by 160mm., with the suspended complete wax seal of Katherine Paxton.
Charter of Robert Logy, burgess of Perth, to Andrew Charters, of lands in Perth, in Latin, on vellum, dated...
Dates:
1402-1699
Collection of Allegorical Fairy Stories
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-42
Identifier: Coll-630
Scope and Contents
The material is composed of bundles of typescript, and are the stories entitled The queen's hairpin, The fairy of the dawn, The jade jar, or, Green flask, The knight of the golden lance, and The golden lily. One of the bundles includes notes on Blackwood's stories probably by Professor G. H....
Dates:
20th century
Collection of Anthony James Broomhall (1911-1994)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 26
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of black and white and coloured slides and lantern slides relating to China, Taiwan, Malaya, the Philippines and Japan and to the China Inland Mission. The slides show a wide variety of town and country scenes, and images of people and places, festivals and occupations, religion, and church and mission work. There is a complete index listing each slide.
(574 slides plus indexes)
Dates:
[ca. 1890-1979]