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Collection of music

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Identifier: Coll-1179
Scope and Contents

The item contains musical notation to some short pieces including: 'White wings'; 'Dinah Doe'; duet from 'Ruddigore''; the 'Reel of Tulloch'; 'The Happy Fatherland'; and, 'Mia bella'.

Dates: 1888

Collection of Notes of Surgical Cases arising from the Military Action of British Troops in Spain

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Identifier: Coll-500
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of notes of surgical cases arising from military action of British troops in Spain, 1832-1833, and notes of cases in the general military hospital of San Telmo, San Sebastian, arising from military action of British troops, 1836-1837. There is also a volume of statistical returns of sick and wounded admitted to the military hospitals of the Legion in Spain, 1835-1837.

Dates: 1832-1837

Collection of Old Scots Tunes [...] Set and most humbly dedicated to the Right Honorable Lady Erskine, by Francis Barsanti

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Identifier: Coll-1687
Scope and Contents The content of the work is: 'Dumbarton's Drums', Kat Oggie', 'Ettrick Banks', 'Lochaber', 'The Lass of Peatie's mill', 'The Highland Laddie', 'Busk ye buske ye my bonny bride', 'The last time I came o'er the moor', 'Corn riggs are bonny', 'Waly waly', 'Johnnie Faa', 'Lord Aboyne's welcome or Cumbernauld House', 'The Bush aboon Traquair', 'To danton me', 'The Birks of Envermay', 'Fife and all the Lands about it', 'Peggy I must love thee', 'Logan water', 'Pinkie House', 'The Sutours of...
Dates: 1742

Collection of Papers of Alexander Ramsay Mackenzie (1879-1929) and Eliza Jane Mackenzie (1879-1977)

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Identifier: CSWC 19
Scope and Contents The collection consists of: material relating to Chinese phonetics including "alphabet blocks" and the New Testament in Chinese phonetic script (c 1920s); some further items relating to the Mackenzies' time in Manchuria, these are mainly artefacts or printed reports and pamphlets (1920s-1951); a small amount of correspondence about and reports on the mission including correspondence with Chinese Christians from the 1960s; lecture and other notes by Ellie Mackenzie on theological and mission...
Dates: [ca. 1906]-2001

Collection of Photographs of American Scenes

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Identifier: Coll-462
Scope and Contents The collection of photographs is composed of American and some Canadian scenes and shows: a series of views of a camping trip to Lake Muskoka in 1899; Moon River Falls; domestic farm animals; walnut bins; a picnic party; Grant's Tomb in 1896, and views of the old Grant's Tomb; photographs of New York City including Battery Park, Broadway, and Lower Broadway; home interiors in Santa Paula, California; Cliff House, San Francisco; the Old Spanish Mission, Santa Barbara; and a picture of Toronto...
Dates: 1895-1900

Collection of Photographs of Persia (Iran), 1874

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Identifier: Coll-797
Scope and Contents

The photographs held in a decorated binder, include those of: Venus passing the sun over Iran, December 1874; the interior of the observatory at Isfahan (Ispahan); the astronomical station Baugh-i-Zerecht; bridge at Sende-Roud; a city gate; the Maidan of Isfahan; the Mosquee Royale, Tomb of Ali, and other mosques; views in Qum; and views in other Iranian cities.

Dates: 1874

Collection of Photographs relating to Rex v. Ruxton 1935

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Identifier: Coll-704
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of circa 43 black and white photographs, many of them duplicated, of severed limbs and bones, bodies in decomposition, skull and cranial features, foot casts, shoes and other personal effects. There are tracing paper sketches of skull dimensions, feet, and bone cross-sections.

Dates: 1935-1936

Collection of Photographs taken in Portuguese Nyasaland (Northern Mozambique) 1920-1921

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Identifier: Coll-703
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of circa 24 mounted photographs, on paper, with descriptions, of parts of Portuguese Nyasaland, now northern Mozambique. They show: a caravan leaving Port Amelia (Pemba) on the Indian Ocean ; the residence of the Portuguese magistrate; geology of the area; a well; Queen Cona, chief of the Medo Makuas; the interior bush country; coconut plantation; the Union Castle liner 'Gaika' off Port Amelia; damage after a cyclone; a Banian dhow in Pemba Bay; and, views of Pemba...
Dates: 1920-1922

Collection of Poems by William Soutar

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Identifier: Coll-796
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of: four bundles of poems, each simply bound, with titlesConflict,Earth,Quest, andEpigrams; 4 separate signed poems; 1 letter to William Morrison, editor ofThe Scots Observersubmitting the typescript of some poems, 1934; and, six news cuttings giving a background to his life and poetry.

Dates: 1923-1943

Collection of Professor Hedley Duncan Wright

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Identifier: Coll-729
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of a volume containing reprints of his articles, two diaries for the periods 1910 onwards and 1918 onwards, an illustrated transcript of the diaries with biographical details, and an album of photographs taken mainly in Persia during the First World War. There are also 5 medals.

Dates: 1910-1940

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Animal Breeding Research Organisation. ABRO (1945 - 1986) 3
Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 3
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Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 (professor, University of Edinburgh) 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
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 3
Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon) 3
Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1868-1974) 3
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (historian, philosopher) 3
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 3
Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature) 3
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 3
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research - Edinburgh Research Station. IAPGR (1986-1993) 3
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 3
Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 3
Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, 1874-1969 (missionary and ecumenist) 3
Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 3
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 3
Smith, Sydney Alfred, Sir, 1883-1969 (Professor of Forensic Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
Tragara Pressnn 3
University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Library 3
University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 3
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 3
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 2
Anderson, John, 1668-1721 (Minister of Dumbarton) 2
Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 2
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 2
Bolton, Frederic James, 1908-1993 (Poet, Chemist) 2
Borland, Catherine Robina, d 1946 (manuscript historian) 2
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Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 2
Bruce, William Speirs, 1867-1921 (polar explorer and oceanographer) 2
Buchan, John, Baron Tweedsmuir, 1875-1940 (Scottish novelist and historian) 2
Campbell, Archibald Hunter, 1902-1989 (legal scholar, Professor of Public law, Dean of the Faculty of Law) 2
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 (Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College) 2
Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 2
Church Missionary Society 2
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Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and mettalurgist) 2
Davidson Clinic (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2
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Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre (1907-1959) 2
Edinburgh University Sports Union (EUSU) (c1971-present) 2
Edinburgh University Women's Athletics Club 2
Emmett, William B, fl mid 20th century (psychologist) 2
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 2
Foreign Mission Committee the Church of Scotland 2
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Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 2
Greenwood, Alan William, 1897-1981 (genetical physiologist and director of ARC Poultry Research Centre) 2
Hamish Henderson Archive Trust 2
Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 2
Holland, Sir Thomas Henry, 1868-1947 (geologist, Principal of the University of Edinburgh) 2
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 2
Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 2
Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa, 1840-1912 (medical practitioner, reformer and suffragette) 2
Kirk, Robert, 1644-1692 (Folklorist and Church minister) 2
Lawley, Derrick, 1915-2012 (statistician) 2
Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 2
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, 1910-1996 (poet, teacher) 2
MacDonald, William Donald, 1827-1862 (lieutenant-colonel 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot) 2
MacMurray, John, 1891-1976 (chair of moral philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 2
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 2
Monro, Alexander, 'primus', 1697-1767 (Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 2
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 2
Newman, Sidney Thomas Mayow, 1906-1971 (Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 2
Nyerere, Julius Kambarage, 1922-1999 (President of Tanzania) 2
Ringsleben, Mary R. E., Dr., fl. 1954-1968 (Edinburgh University graduate; signatory of the Committee of 100) 2
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh) 2
Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-:) 2
Sarolea, Charles, 1870-1953 (Professor of French and Romance Philology, University of Edinburgh) 2
Saunders, William, 1743-1817 (physician) 2
Scott, Walter, 1729-1799 (Writer to the Signet, Father of the Scottish Writer) 2
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 2
Stevens, William Victor, 1900-1987 (President of the University of Edinburgh Graduates' Association) 2
University of Glasgow (Scottish University)) 2
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