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Account of a voyage to New South Wales on the ‘Neptune’ by James Mitchell (1792- ), ship’s surgeon

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Identifier: MS MIT 3
Scope and Contents

Manuscript notebook with 151 numbered pages.

'An account of my voyage to New South Wales in the ship Neptune, in the year 1820 as Surgeon [and] Superintendant to male convicts.'

Pages 1251 - 1260 of a medical textbook laid in. Chapter heading reads 'wounds', and business card indicates the pages were sent by the Sub-librarian of the Medical School Library.

Dates: 1820
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Action sermons by John Nimmo (c.1705-1784), minister of Johnstone, Annandale

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Identifier: MS NIM 1
Scope and Contents

Action sermons given at Johnstone dated between 25 June 1749 and 13 July 1755. Possibly sermons by John Nimmo (c.1705-1784), minister of Johnstone.

Dates: c.1749-1755
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Acts of the Smith Trade of Lanark

 Fonds — Box: Dk.3.9
Identifier: Coll-2168
Scope and Contents

Acts of the Smith trade of Lanark, 1653-1845. Several inks.

Dates: 1653-1845
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Admission tickets to General Assemblies (1840-1843)

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Identifier: MS BOX 7.2
Scope and Contents

See External Documents (below) for details.

Dates: 1840-1843
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Affleck, James Whigham

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Identifier: GD1-64
Scope and Contents

Papers regarding rehabilitation 1957-1988; membership of Boards 1969-1981; miscellaneous papers 1969-1988; published papers 1947-1989; slides; Royal Medico-Psychological Association material 1927

Dates: 1927-1989
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Album amicorum of Tokyo artists Japanese art

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Identifier: Coll-1625
Scope and Contents

The album contains 22 paintings by various artists, and these include: an illustration of a swallow, a peony, a waterfall, a monkey, autumn leaves, a mandarin duck, a chrysanthemum, a sparrow on a flowering twig, a lobster, heavy rain, a flock of sparrows, a tea bowl and camellia, a shrimp, houses in the snow, a fan and handscroll, a white rabbit, and a basket.

Dates: 1820-1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album and scrapbook collected by Jessie Aitken Wilson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1504
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: 1 x book of photographic portraits containing portraits of Albrech Duerer, Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, George Sand, Matthew Arnold, and cardinal newman, and others. The album was given to Jessie Aitken Wilson by novelist Mrs. Oliphant and is inscribed, 'This Book was the gift of Mrs. Oliphant'. 1 x packet of (4) loose photographic...
Dates: 1850-1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album of cuttings relating to dreams, c.1840-1870

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Identifier: MS DRE
Scope and Contents

Album of cuttings and manuscript quotations from various periodicals, regarding dreams, visions, superstitions, and other supernatural phenomena

Dates: c.1840-1870
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Album of operatic programmes, Dresden, 1911-1918

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Identifier: Coll-1590
Scope and Contents

The scrap-album contains postcards showing the exterior of the Koenigliches Opernhaus in earlier years, and opera-singers or performers in their various roles. There are also circa 19 programmes of the operatic programmes at Dresden Opera House, 1911. Also within the album are three letters to 'Eleanor W. Dolie' (Dollie?) addressed to a Paris address.

The album holds the signature 'Eleanor W. Dolie' (Dollie?) facing inside cover, and was presented by 'Miss Eleanor Hughes'.

Dates: 1911-1918
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album of periodical cuttings, mainly of reviews of James Sime's Lessing, his life, and writings

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.2.2
Identifier: Coll-2137
Scope and Contents

Sime (James). Cuttings of reviews of his book Lessing. Printed materials from 1877-1888.

Dates: Late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 4
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Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 4
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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
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Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 3
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Cowan House (student hall of residence) 3
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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
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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
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Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 2
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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
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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
Davie, George Elder, 1912-2007 (philosopher) 2
Dickson, William Kirk, 1860-1949 (Librarian and Historian) 2
Dods, Marcus, 1834-1909, New Testament scholar 2
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Douglas, Gavin, 1474-1522 (Scottish bishop, makar, translator) 2
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