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Material relating to Tessa Ransford
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1727
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of the following materials:
1 x spiral bound copy of Granny's Guest 1902-1945, by Torfrida, which is an account of Ransford family life from the birth of Torfrida, her mother, in 1902, until Tessa and her family returned to Britain in the 1940s, pp.73
1 x bundle correspondence from Walter to Tessa, Duncan [Glen] to Tessa, and...
Dates:
1975-2010
Models of Old College
Collection — OpenShelf: Coll-1811
Identifier: Coll-1811
Scope and Contents
4 papier mache models of Old College, comprising a pair depicting the frontage and one of the side wings and single model depicting the frontage.
Model of the Robert Adam frontage. (c 1790s)
Model of the Robert Adam frontage, in a frame by Wm. Archer. (c 1790s)
Pair of models showing frontage an one of the side wings, formerly held at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge. (c...
Dates:
1790s -
Notebook on legal matters, including copy of transcript of the trial of Capt. John Porteous
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1244
Scope and Contents
Much of this notebook contains a part-copy of the transcript of the trial as it was published in Edinburgh, 1818, in - Criminal Trials Illustrative Of The Tale Entitled The Heart Of Mid-Lothian: Published From The Original Record . Also in the notebook are some law notes on Cox v. Coleridge and the Rights of Allornies (or Attornies?); Rex v. Inhabitants of Middlesex; and, the Assizes at Lewes. There are also notes from Lacon, or Many...
Dates:
1818-1824
Panorama of Edinburgh from Calton Hill
Fonds — Folder: Coll-1092 (E2006.22)
Identifier: Coll-1092
Scope and Contents
This is an incomplete non-aqua-tinted version of the earliest panorama view - and a modest panorama. The panorama is composed of only four of the full collection of a six part set. The panorama shows (when the parts are laid adjacent to each other, and from right to left):
- Calton Hill, and the Observatory there, looking east towards Berwick Law and the Forth estuary
-...
Dates:
1789-1790
Papers of Alan W. Greenwood
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1057
Scope and Contents
Contains:
academic certificates of Alan Greenwood and Janet Alison Vera Crockett;
papers relating to the Institute of Animal Genetics, including a notebook detailing various poultry experiments, a report from the Institute (1943-1944) and various historical memoranda;
papers relating to the Poultry Research Centre;
reprints of journal articles and...
Dates:
19th century-1984
Papers of Conrad Hal Waddington
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-41
Scope and Contents
Contains:
laboratory notebooks and bundles of research notes, including many from Waddington's early years of research in Cambridge in the 1930s;
manuscripts, typescripts and related correspondence, including draft manuscripts of New Patterns in Genetics and Development and Principes of Development and Differentiation, and...
Dates:
1923-1976
Papers of Eric Lucey
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1484
Scope and Contents
The material contains:
two vinyl (78") records from Edinburgh University Phonetics Department, possibly containing recordings of the humorous songs composed at the Institute of Animal Genetics (1958);
various photographs showing: a social event held at Eric Lucey's house, possibly with Institute of Animal Genetics staff (George Clayton is pictured); the Institute of Animal Genetics...
Dates:
c.1955-2006
Papers of Everitt Young
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1071
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of letters to Ivory Buchan (Margaret Ivory Ritchie Buchan) and includes: Edinburgh letters, 1931-1938, beginning on a regular basis in 1934, with comments on teacher training, and setting up a private school in Blackhall; South Africa letters, 1938-1951, going abroad for health reasons, early difficulties in South Africa, and about work in Benoni and Johannesburg.
Dates:
1931-1951
Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1310
Scope and Contents
Biographical and personal papers, c mid 19th century-1972;
Publications authored and co-authored by Thomson, 1904-1954;
Unpublished materials by Thomson, 1897-1954;
Publications collected by Thomson regarding education, intelligence, psychology, and statistics, 1879-1971
Unpublished material collected by Thomson and authored by others, c mid 20th...
Dates:
c1890s-1978
Papers of Gregory P. Lubkin
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1021
Scope and Contents
The material is composed of notes, essays, and examination papers, and consists of: folder relating to British History I, European History 2, and Celtic I, 1972-1973; Medieval aristocracies and society, Medieval and early renaissance thought, and Theory and history of history, 1973-1974; Literature, war and society in France, England, and the Iberian Peninsula; Studies in Italian Renaissance history, 1974-1975; and an European History examination sheet, Autumn 1972. There are also a large...
Dates:
1972-1975