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Diary of geologist James Nicol when he was an Edinburgh University student
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1914
Scope and Contents
This is the manuscript diary of James nicol (1810-1879), an Edinburgh University student in medicine and natural history, who would later become a geologist and Professor of Natural history at the University of Aberdeen. The journal was written between the 10th of October 1840, to the 21st of March 1841, when he attended the Winter Session at Berlin University. Enclosed in the volume are typed notes, giving a rather detailed index of the diary's contents. In his journal, James Nicol describes...
Dates:
10 October 1840-21 March 1841
Diary of Harriet Rutherford
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1930
Scope and Contents
Diary of Harriet Rutherford, nee Mitchelson, wife of Daniel Rutherford (professor of botany at the University of Edinburgh), covering starting on the 17 May 1802 and ending on the 7 December 1808.
Dates:
17 May 1802-7 December 1808
Diary of Helena Marshall
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1952
Scope and Contents
Diary of Helena Marshall when she was a student at the 'College of Arts', Edinburgh (NB - not Edinburgh College of Arts, which was founded in 1907, but probably the Faculty of Arts of the University of Edinburgh) and (later) a governess in Russia (Petersburg) and Switzerland. Also journal consisting mainly of notes from lectures at the College of Arts on botany, geology, zoology, electricity, Italian art, etc., 1869.
Dates:
1869-1874
Edinburgh Sketches by Sir Daniel Wilson
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-63
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 83 separate original drawings and watercolour sketches of Edinburgh used in hisMemorials of Edinburgh in the olden timepublished in 1848. The illustrations include buildings and streets in Edinburgh's old town as well as in the port of Leith, for example: the Council House of Mary of Lorraine when Queen Regent, Coal Hill, Leith; Roofs of houses, Grassmarket; John Knox's House; the Sanctuary, St. Anne's Yard, Holyrood; St. Giles'; a plan of old Edinburgh; and, many...
Dates:
before 1847
Elizabeth Todd Logan papers
Fonds — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: EUA Acc.1996/008
Identifier: EUA GD50
Content Description
Original and copied material relating to Elizabeth Todd Logan (graduated MB ChB, 1922).
Includes: class / diplomas / degree certificates, photographs etc. & unpublished articles on Logan by Jo Currie.
Includes: class / diplomas / degree certificates, photographs etc. & unpublished articles on Logan by Jo Currie.
Dates:
20th century
Engineering drawings of John McKay Campbell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2011
Content Description
This fonds consists of 25 technical drawings produced by John McKay Campbell for his engineering degree, which he started in 1934 at the University of Edinburgh, and completed in June 1939 after the war. Titles of drawings include: "D.C. Machine", "Light Country Bridge", "Proposed road", "Grouped flange-place splice", "Survey of pasture fields", "Survey of drill fields", and "Non-concurrent coplanar forces".
Dates:
1934
English translation of Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqī's work by H. Comyn Maitland
Item
Identifier: Coll-1916
Scope and Contents
Tentative English translation by H. Comyn Maitland of parts of the Tārīkh-i Masʿūdī (تاریخ مسعودی, Mas'udi's History) by Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqī, 450-451 A.H. (ca 1058-1060 AD).
Dates:
First half of 20th century
Entomology book by William E. Sharp: 'Collecting Days, No.3'
Item
Identifier: Coll-1907
Scope and Contents
Book on entomology entitled 'Collecting days, no 3', by William E Sharp, created between 1909 and 1918.
Dates:
1909-1918
Firth of Forth Defences in the 20th Century
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-61
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Public Record Office references, 1879-1956; correspondence of B.A. Stenhouse and Major D. Rollo (Retired), H.Q. Royal Artillery, Woolwich, 1979-1987, relating to research on coastal defence, in addition to miscellaneous correspondence 1976-1990; material relating to batteries and forts, including Forth Artillery Defences 1880-1980; papers relating to the defence of islands; newspaper cuttings; material on attacks and disasters; aerial photographs, and camp and group...
Dates:
1879-1987
Five signed letters from Bonamy Dobrée to Sir Herbert Grierson relating to a planned Oxford History of English Literature
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-373
Identifier: Coll-1873
Scope and Contents
Three autograph and two typed letters signed, nine pages in total, written in Leeds from 25 December 1937 to 14 May 1939. Sent from Bonamy Dobrée to Sir Herbert Grierson, suggesting a commission for a collaboration with Edmund Blunden to produce a volume on the late 18th century for a planned Oxford History of English Literature and subsequently discussing aspects of its progress.
Dates:
25 December 1937-14 May 1939
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