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Diaries of Janet Beaton

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2049
Content Description This collection consists of the diaries written by Janet Beaton between 1934 and 1949, and from 1962 until her death in 2018. The early diaries relate to her experience of wartime (for example, her 1939 diary includes her eye-witness account of a "Humbie Heinkel" over East Lothian. This was the first German aircraft to be brought down over mainland Britain during the Second World War.), and to her days at the University of Edinburgh. Subsequent diaries relate to her family, her many travels...
Dates: 1934-2018

Diary of geologist James Nicol when he was an Edinburgh University student

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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...
Dates: 10 October 1840-21 March 1841

Diary of Harriet Rutherford

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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

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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 — 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.

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

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Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 2
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 2
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 2
Cairns, David Smith, 1862-1946 (principal of the United Free Church College, Aberdeen) 2
Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 2
Duncan, Andrew, 1773-1832 (the younger | British physician) 2
Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 2
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner) 2
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 2
Gregory, James, 1753-1821 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 2
Heriot-Watt College (1885-1966) 2
Hood, Helen Patuffa, 1889-1967 (harpist) 2
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 2
Jamieson, Morley (author and bookshop owner) 2
Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 2
Koestler, Arthur, CBE, 1905-1983 (Hungarian-British author and journalist) 2
Laws, Robert, 1851-1934 (Scottish missionary) 2
London Missionary Society 2
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 2
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 (New Zealand writer and critic) 2
Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 2
Monro, Alexander, 'primus', 1697-1767 (Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 2
Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959 (poet, novelist and translator) 2
Muir, Willa, 1890-1970 (novelist, essayist and translator) 2
Naismith, Robert James, 1916-2004 (Scottish architect) 2
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 2
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 2
Simpson, Sir Alexander Russell, 1835-1916 (professor of midwifery, University of Edinburgh) 2
Stewart, Dugald, 1753-1828 (Scottish philosopher and mathematician) 2
Torrance, Thomas Forsyth, 1913-2007 (theologian, and Professor of Christian Dogmatics at New College, Edinburgh) 2
Abercrombie, David, 1909-1992 (phonetician) 1
Abraham, Robert, fl 1823-1825 (Physician, journalist and lawyer; University of Edinburgh alumnus) 1
Abraham, Sir Edward Penley, 1913-1999 (English biochemist) 1
Adamson, Robert, 1821-1848 (Photographer and Engineer) 1
Agnew, Andrew, 7th Baronet, 1793-1849 (Scottish politician) 1
Aitken, Alastair, d 2014 (Professor of Protein Biochemistry, University of Edinburgh) 1
Alexander, Edwin John, 1870-1926 (painter of animals) 1
Ali, Sonia, fl 2010s (artist; Edinburgh College of Art alumna) 1
Allinson, Thomas Richard, 1858-1918 (physician, businessman and journalist) 1
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 1
Ambler, Richard Penry, 1933-: (professor of protein chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 1
Anderson, Tempest, 1846-1913 (opthalmic surgeon, photographer and volcanologist) 1
Animal Breeding Research Organisation. ABRO (1945 - 1986) 1
Annandale, Thomas, 1838-1907 (surgeon) 1
Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and principal of the University of Edinburgh) 1
Arbuthnot, Doreen, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
Asquith, Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn, 1887-1960 (English writer and socialite) 1
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Ato Printing Association (fl 1922-1944) (Japanese photography company) 1
Bacon, J T, fl 1880s 1
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Ballantyne, Robert Michael, 1825-1894 (Scottish writer) 1
Ballingall, Sir George, 1780-1855 (Knight | Regius Professor of Military Surgery at the University of Edinburgh) 1
Banda, Hastings Kamuzu, c 1898-1997 (First President of Malawi) 1
Barbour, Dorothy Dickinson, 1893-1970 (American Christian missionary and educator) 1
Barbour, George Brown, 1890–1977 (Scottish geologist and educator) 1
Bayhaqī, Abu'l-Fadl, c 996-1077 (Persian historian and author) 1
Beaton, Janet, 1922-2018 (teacher and writer) 1
Bell, Charles Davidson, 1813–1882 (Surveyor-General in the Cape Colony | Artist, Heraldist) 1
Bell, George Joseph, 1770-1843 (advocate, Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh) 1
Bell, George, fl 1832-1842 (of Leith, Edinburgh | acquaintance of Thomas Chalmers) 1
Benn, Tony, 1925-2014 (British politician, writer and diarist) 1
Bennet, E W, fl 1820s (Edinburgh University chemistry student) 1
Birnie, Frederick, fl 1792 (engraver) 1
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 1
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 (professor, University of Edinburgh) 1
Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899 (Minister of Pilrig and Temperance Reformer) 1
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 1
Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896-1974 (English poet, author and critic) 1
Bonar, Horatius, Rev, 1808-1889 (Free Church of Scotland minister | hymn writer ) 1
Borthwick, John, fl 1800s (of Crookston | Edinburgh University student) 1
Boughton, Alice, 1866-1943 (Photographer) 1
Boulanger, Juliette Nadia, 1887-1979 (French composer and music teacher) 1
Braide, Garrick Sokari, 1882-1918 (African preacher, founder of the Christ Army Church of Nigeria) 1
Brash, James Couper, 1886-1958 (Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University) 1
British Association for Early Childhood Education (1973-) 1
British South Africa Company 1
Brown, Francis John, Captain, 1841–1909 (Master mariner, Surveyor, Anglican missionary) 1
Brown, Gerard Baldwin, 1849-1932 (Watson-Gordon Professor of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh) 1
Brown, J C, fl 1844 (clergyman) 1
Brown, Kenneth R, fl 1880s (medical student, University of Edinburgh) 1
Brown, Thomas, 1778-1820 (Scottish poet and Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Browne, Margaret (Megan), 1911-1991 (Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Acting Head of the School of Social Study, University of Edinburgh) 1
Bruce, William Speirs, 1867-1921 (polar explorer and oceanographer) 1
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