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Study on the removal of French inhabitants of Nova Scotia in 1755

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Identifier: Coll-1305
Scope and Contents

Including bibliography this bound illustrated volume has 293 pages.

The thesis is concerned with 'one of the earliest known historical accounts of the Acadian Deportation', an account based 'on primary documents, eye-witness accounts and Acadian oral tradition'. It provides an annotated edition of the original edition of the manuscript.

Dates: 2010
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Surgical reports on 88 patients at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1826-7.

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Identifier: Coll-1324
Scope and Contents Manuscript volume of pp.492, in neat hand on narrow folio paper with numerous additional blanks. Item is bound in contemporary half calf, gilt bands, lettered in gilt. The volume begins with a detailed 'Table 1st' and 'Table 2nd'. The 'Table 1st' details the age, occupation, symptoms, and state of the different physical functions (vital, natural, animal, and sexual). The 'Table 2nd' details the necessary information for the taking of daily reports, the effects of medicines, the...
Dates: 1826-1827
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Susan Binnie Anderson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1052
Scope and Contents The material is composed of high school exam passes, photographs, pass certificates, class cards and tickets, degree scroll, and letters. In the collection there is the Intermediate Certificate, dated 1913, issued by Airdrie Academy Higher Grade Public School, certifying that Binnie had gained the Intermediate Certificate in English, Mathematics, Science and Drawing, and that she continued at school for three further years passing in Lower Latin and Lower French. The...
Dates: 1913-1922
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Swan Land and Cattle Company

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Identifier: Coll-162
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of reminiscences of the Swan Land and Cattle Company. The bundles of material are entitled:The Swan Land and Cattle Company. Utilizers of Wyoming Grass;The Swan Company roundupsParts I and II;The Two-Bar hands. Cowboys for the Swan Company;Blue Grass Well. World's largest water-hole; andEdward Held and the Swan Company.

Dates: 1883-1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

System of phrenology

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Identifier: Coll-1150
Scope and Contents

The item that forms the collection is a manuscript version of the susbtantial part of the 4th edition of Combe'sA system of phrenology,which was printed in Edinburgh in 1836. It consists of 634 numbered pages written in ink, unbound.

This is a most desirable addition as Special Collections, Edinburgh University Library have the records of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh (Gen.608).

Dates: 1836
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Testament written 3 June 1936 by John Baillie (1886-1960), Professor of Divinity, in favour of Ursula Mary Niebuhr (1907-1997)

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Identifier: Coll-1378
Scope and Contents The manuscript testimonial (2-sided letter) dated 3 June 1936 and signed by Professor John Baillie was found alongside some more recent photocopies of other material in a book (unnamed in a lot of 19 titles) purchased by Edinburgh University Library. The testimonial talks of Mrs. Niebuhr's maturity of scholarship, the 'soundness of her judgement' and 'the quick intuitive character of her mind'. The other photocopies are: 1 letter from John Baillie to 'My dear Bishop' dated 29 May 1939, in...
Dates: 1936-2012
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

The Angus Fraser Manuscript

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Identifier: Coll-58
Scope and Contents

The Angus Fraser Music Manuscript consists of three named collections intended for publication, a series of sets of variations mostly on well-known airs, and a variety of less-organised manuscript pages. The differing interests of Simon Fraser and Angus Fraser are reflected in the Manuscript.

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

The Carmichael-Watson Collection

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Identifier: Coll-97
Scope and Contents The Carmichael-Watson Collection consists of papers belonging to the Reverend Alexander Cameron of Arran, Alexander Carmichael, civil servant and folklorist, Alexander MacBain of Inverness, and Professor William John Watson and his son James Carmichael Watson, along with books and papers belonging to the Reverend Charles Robertson of Jura, the Reverend Angus MacDonald, the Reverend Archibald MacDonald and the Reverend Father Allan McDonald of Eriskay. These include: invocations...
Dates: 18th century - mid 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

The Columnist

 Fonds — Box: Number pending, Folder: EUA GD64
Identifier: EUA GD64
Scope and Contents

Publication: The Columnist (student magazine), issues 1-7

Dates: c2000-2017
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

The Harris Transcript of old Scottish Ballads - bound volume with manuscript transcript of Scottish ballads

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Identifier: Coll-1818
Content Description This important bound volume with ms transcript of Scottish ballads had been in the ownership of Mr. Hilary Corke, a Lecturer at Edinburgh University, 1951-1955. It is one of two ms volumes known as the Harris Repertoire. Corke had 're-discovered' it in 1955. Much earlier it had been sought after by collectors Norval Clyne, the Aberdonian advocate, and by Francis James Child. It contains a book-plate with arms on the inside front-board - 'Hilary Corke'. On one...
Dates: 1850-1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 3
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Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 3
Tragara Pressnn 3
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University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 3
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Geological Society of London (1807-:) 2
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Newman, Sidney Thomas Mayow, 1906-1971 (Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 2
Nyerere, Julius Kambarage, 1922-1999 (President of Tanzania) 2
Peru Inland Mission 2
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Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh) 2
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1505) 2