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Album of photographs and ephemera of 'The Eves', a Home Front theatrical group, 1916-1917

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1668
Scope and Contents

Quarto album of platinum print photographs, printed on highly prepared vellum-style leaves, with associated ephemera, including five printed programmes.

The album is unsigned but 'is most likely to have been produced by James A. Sinclair Ltd' (founded London, 1903). The snapshots and formal group photographs, posters and newspaper cuttings have been reproduced in the permanent platinum process on thick vellum card.

Dates: 1916-1917
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album of preserved samples of Scottish mosses, c.1828

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1398
Scope and Contents

Probably Scottish (c.1828). Album bearing mounted moss specimens, each specimen with accompanying contemporary ink annotations, interleaved with additional blanks, modern notes on the album contents on pastedown and flyleaves. Original vellum. Borders with gilt foliage roll.

Dates: 1800-1850
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album of press cuttings relating to Eve Blantyre Simpson's biographies of Sir J. Y. Simpson and R. L. Stevenson

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.7.41
Identifier: Coll-2224
Scope and Contents

Volume of press-cuttings of reviews of Eve Blantyre Simpson's biographies of her father Sir James Young Simpson entitled Sir James Y. Simpson (1896) (Famous Scots Series), and of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson entitled Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh Days (1898). Clippings dated 1896 to 1899.

Dates: 1896-1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album of silver gelatin prints featuring 'Mr Wu' and 'Much Ado About Nothing', British Empire Shakespeare Society, Reading

 Fonds — Folder: SC-Acc-2016-0119
Identifier: Coll-1763
Scope and Contents There are 11 gelatin silver prints, ranging from approximately 15.2 x 9.4 cms to 14.6 x 18 cms, of which 10 are album mounted. 1 loose print is signed 'Yours lovingly, Marjorie'. The prints are held in an album with beige-coloured card wrappers and the top cover states, 'Mr Wu / And / Much Ado About Nothing / 1930'.There are 2 programme cut-outs which have been pasted into the album...: The Mary Hay Players in conjunction with the Reading Branch of the British Empire Shakespeare...
Dates: 1930
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album of verses, sketches, etc. presented to Mary Goudy

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.8.1
Identifier: Coll-2243
Scope and Contents

Album of verses, sketches, etc. Inscribed 'Presented to Mary Goudy by her affectionate uncle John Carson'. Watermark dated 1833.

Dates: 1833
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Albums of Very Rev James Nicoll Ogilvie, minister of New Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: MS OGI
Scope and Contents Papers of James Nicoll Ogilvie, minister of Greyfriars Kirk 1905-1919 and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1918.MS OGI 1: Indexed scrapbook from year of moderatorship (May 1918 - May 1919). Newspaper clippings and ephemera pasted in. Also bound in: Orders of Service, St Giles' Cathedral [Edinburgh], 21 November 1918; St Andrew's Day (Order of the Thistle) 1918.MS OGI 2.1-2: Albums of postcard pictures and photographs of...
Dates: c.1918-1919
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Alderston Convalescent Home

 Fonds
Identifier: LHB19
Scope and Contents

Admissions registers 1939-1956; wages records 1948

Dates: 1939-1956
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Alison, William Pulteney

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-4
Scope and Contents

Notes by unidentified student from lectures by W. P. Alison on the Institutes of Medicine 1828 and 1830

Dates: 1828-1830
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

An Account of Body Snatching by Medical Students

 Fonds — Box: Dk.7.54-64
Identifier: Coll-2236
Scope and Contents

'Twenty four hours of my pupillage'. An account of a grave robbing (body snatching) expedition by medical students in 1830 at a town probably on or near the coast in the Southeast of England. Written in later years by one of the participants. Anonymous.

Dates: 1830
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

‘An English and Gaelic Vocabulary’ by Alexander Robertson (fl.1800), schoolmaster, Kirkmichael, Perthshire

 Collection
Identifier: MS ROB1
Scope and Contents

See External Documents (below).

Dates: c.1800
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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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
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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