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Volume entitled "Report on the Highlands and Map of Britain" by John Smith

 Fonds — Volume: Dc.1.1
Identifier: Coll-2289
Scope and Contents

Report on Scotland, military strength of the Highland Clans, etc. and map of Great Britain illustrating the military operations of 1745-46.

Dates: 1745-1746
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Volume entitled "The Colours appropriated to the Several Faculties in the University of Edinburgh" by Sir Dyce Duckworth

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.3.39
Identifier: Coll-2176
Scope and Contents

This is a volume entitled "The colours appropriated to the faculties in the University of Edinburgh", 1882, by Sir Dyce Duckworth. Gilt text. Contains fabric swatches for each faculty.

Dates: 1882
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Volume of Correspondence of the Hannay Family

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.5.22
Identifier: Coll-2198
Scope and Contents

Hannay (W.). Volume containing transcript of correspondence between William Hannay, ship captain, his wife Mary, and Anne Hannay (called Lady) of Kingsmuir, Fife, widow of Captain Erskine of Dun. 1731-1735.


Transcribed from the original letters in his possession by Major S. J. B. Francis, the Royal Berkshire Regiment, 9 December 1956.

Dates: 1731-1735 (date of originals); Other: 1956 (date of transcription)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Volume of lecture notes taken by John P Mackintosh at lectures in Constitutional History given by Dr. Balfour-Melville, 1947-48. With enclosures

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1323
Scope and Contents The material is composed of: - 1 x notebook of lectures in Constitutional History given by Dr. Balfour-Melville - insertions (from notebook), being Examination for Vans Dunlop Scholarship in History, 1949, Edinburgh University; three printed examination papers, Edinburgh University - British History (Ordinary) December 1946, British History (Honours) January 1948, British History (Degree...
Dates: 1947-48
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Volume of minutes of on the "Ramshorn Resurrectionist Case"

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.1.27
Identifier: Coll-2133
Scope and Contents

Volume on the "Ramshorn Resurrectionist Case", 1814. Minutes of evidence in the trail of Granville Sharp Pattison, lecturer in anatomy, Andrew Russell, lecturer in surgery, and Robert Munro and John McLean, students, all of Glasgow University, on a charge of violating the grave of Mrs. McAlister (sometimes spelt McAllister) in Ramshorn Churchyard, Glasgow 6-7 June 1814. With relevant press-cuttings.

Dates: 1814
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Volumes of Thomas Elder

 Fonds
Identifier: MS ELD
Scope and Contents

MS ELD 1: A commonplace book from 1834. Volume is primarily handwritten, with a clipping of a recipe for bread pasted to the back board.

MS ELD 2: A scrap book of newspaper cuttings, c. 1830-1840. Cuttings are pasted into the volume, and are mostly of topographical interest.

Dates: c.1830-1840
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Warrant with seal, appointing Peter Hume Brown Historiographer-Royal for Scotland

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2934
Scope and Contents King's Warrant declaring Peter Hume Brown Historiographer-Royal in 1908. The Great Seal of Scotland in red wax is attached to the centre-base of the sheet, using reg and blue ribbons.Bulk of the warrant is written in the hand of John Charles Strettell Miller, and reads: "Edward the Seventh by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King Defender of the Faith to all to whom these Presents...
Dates: 4 - 22 May 1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Waverley Care

 Fonds
Identifier: GD36
Scope and Contents

The collection reflects the formation of the Waverley Care Trust in administrative papers and correspondence. Reports, newsletters, photographs and publicity materials document projects, community activities and initiatives run by the Waverley Care Trust, later (after 2003) Waverley Care.

Dates: 1989 – 2000s
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Western General Hospital

 Fonds
Identifier: LHB13
Scope and Contents

Administration 1930-1984; plans and buildings 1954-1985; patients (bound volumes) 1930-1966

Dates: 1930-1984
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

William Henry Playfair Architectural Drawings

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-13
Scope and Contents The drawings in the collection range from Playfair's student drawings, sketch designs and preliminary schemes, to many presentation drawings in watercolours. The earliest catalogued plans, elevations and sections relate to the commission to complete the University (the College of Edinburgh), 1817 onwards. The Advocates' Library, Royal Terrace, Regent Terrace, the National Gallery, the National Monument, and New College also feature in the collection. Other material relates to the...
Dates: 1817-1849
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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University of Edinburgh Library -- Legacy shelfmark sequence: Da-Dp 156
Correspondence 85
Sermons 85
Missionaries 61
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Students 46
Hospitals | Administration | 35
Student lecture notes 34
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University of Edinburgh -- Student lecture notes 26
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Law (Scotland) 17
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Nursing | Study and teaching | Scotland | Edinburgh | 17
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University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 119
Hall, Edward, b 1898 (Bookseller) 15
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1729-:) 9
Moray House College of Education (1959-1991) 8
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 8
Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 7
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 6
Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 6
Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 5
Erskine, Ralph, Rev, 1685-1752 (minister and poet) 5
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner) 5
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 1835-1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 5
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 5
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 5
Playfair, William Henry, 1790-1857 (architect) 5
Roslin Institute 5
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 (author and Traveller) 5
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 4
Church of Scotland 4
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (Scottish historian and philosopher) 4
Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 4
Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature) 4
Koestler, Arthur, CBE, 1905-1983 (Hungarian-British author and journalist) 4
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 4
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 4
Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, 1874-1969 (missionary and ecumenist) 4
Poultry Research Centre (1947-1986) (research institution) 4
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (Professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 4
Animal Breeding Research Organisation. ABRO (1945 - 1986) 3
Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 3
Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 3
Barker, Robert, 1739-1806 (Irish artist) 3
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 (professor, University of Edinburgh) 3
Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899 (Minister of Pilrig and Temperance Reformer) 3
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 (Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College) 3
Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 3
Combe, George, 1788-1858 (Phrenologist) 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
Fraser, Sir Thomas Richard, 1841-1920 (Knight ; Professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh) 3
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 3
Guthrie, Douglas James, 1885-1975 (surgeon and historian of medicine) 3
Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 3
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 3
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research - Edinburgh Research Station. IAPGR (1986-1993) 3
Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa, 1840-1912 (medical practitioner, reformer and suffragette) 3
Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 3
Love , John, Rev Dr, 1757-1825 (Church of Scotland minister ) 3
Monro, Alexander, 1697-1767 ("Primus", Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 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
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 3
Simpson, Sir James Young, 1811-1870 (Professor of Midwifery, University of Edinburgh) 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. Library 3
University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 3
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 3
Anderson, John, 1668-1721 (Minister of Dumbarton) 2
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 (English Philosopher | Attorney General | Lord Chancellor of England) 2
Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 2
Barker, Henry, d 1948 (lecturer in Moral Philosophy) 2
Beattie, James, 1735-1803 (Scottish poet, professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic) 2
Berry, Richard James Arthur, 1867-1962 (Surgeon, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy) 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
Brown, Alexander Crum, 1838-1922 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 2
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
Buchanan, George, 1506-1582 (Scottish expatriate, historian and scholar, anti-absolutist and satyrist of clerical vice) 2
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 2
Campbell, Archibald Hunter, 1902-1989 (legal scholar, Professor of Public law, Dean of the Faculty of Law) 2
Campbell, Sir Alexander, 1819-1880 (2nd baronet Barcaldine, Captain Argyll and Bute Militia, Justice of the Peace) 2
Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844 (Scottish poet) 2
Candlish, Robert Smith, Rev Dr, 1806-1873 (Free Church of Scotland minister, Chair of Divinity New College Edinburgh) 2
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (historian, essayist and philosopher) 2
Church Missionary Society 2
Church of Scotland (1560-) 2
Craigie, Patrick George, Major, 1843-1930 (statistician; army major) 2
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 (English military and political leader) 2
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist) 2
Davidson Clinic (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2
Davidson, Andrew Bruce, Rev Prof, 1831-1902 (Free Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages in New College, Edinburgh) 2
Dickson, William Kirk, 1860-1949 (Librarian and Historian) 2
Dods, Marcus, 1834-1909, New Testament scholar 2
Dollar, Thomas Aitken, 1833-1909 (Veterinary scientist) 2
Douglas, Gavin, 1474-1522 (Scottish bishop, makar, translator) 2
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 (1st Viscount Melville, lieutenant, Scottish politician) 2
East India Company (1600-1874) 2
Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre (1907-1959) 2
Edinburgh University Sports Union (EUSU) (c1971-present) 2
Edinburgh University Women's Athletics Club 2
Edward VII, 1841-1910 (King of Great Britain) 2
Emmett, William B, fl mid 20th century (psychologist) 2