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Volume entitled "The Colours appropriated to the Several Faculties in the University of Edinburgh" by Sir Dyce Duckworth

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.3.39
Identifier: Coll-2176
Scope and Contents

This is a volume entitled "The colours appropriated to the faculties in the University of Edinburgh", 1882, by Sir Dyce Duckworth. Gilt text. Contains fabric swatches for each faculty.

Dates: 1882
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Volume entitled "The History of the Church of Scotland"

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.2.11
Identifier: Coll-2146
Scope and Contents

Manuscript volume entitled "The History of the Church of Scotland" by Archbishop John Spottiswoode. 17th century.

Dates: c 1639
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Volume of Correspondence of the Hannay Family

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.5.22
Identifier: Coll-2198
Scope and Contents

Hannay (W.). Volume containing transcript of correspondence between William Hannay, ship captain, his wife Mary, and Anne Hannay (called Lady) of Kingsmuir, Fife, widow of Captain Erskine of Dun. 1731-1735.


Transcribed from the original letters in his possession by Major S. J. B. Francis, the Royal Berkshire Regiment, 9 December 1956.

Dates: 1731-1735 (date of originals); Other: 1956 (date of transcription)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Volume of lecture notes taken by John P Mackintosh at lectures in Constitutional History given by Dr. Balfour-Melville, 1947-48. With enclosures

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1323
Scope and Contents The material is composed of: - 1 x notebook of lectures in Constitutional History given by Dr. Balfour-Melville - insertions (from notebook), being Examination for Vans Dunlop Scholarship in History, 1949, Edinburgh University; three printed examination papers, Edinburgh University - British History (Ordinary) December 1946, British History (Honours) January 1948, British History (Degree...
Dates: 1947-48
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Volume of minutes of on the "Ramshorn Resurrectionist Case"

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.1.27
Identifier: Coll-2133
Scope and Contents

Volume on the "Ramshorn Resurrectionist Case", 1814. Minutes of evidence in the trail of Granville Sharp Pattison, lecturer in anatomy, Andrew Russell, lecturer in surgery, and Robert Munro and John McLean, students, all of Glasgow University, on a charge of violating the grave of Mrs. McAlister (sometimes spelt McAllister) in Ramshorn Churchyard, Glasgow 6-7 June 1814. With relevant press-cuttings.

Dates: 1814
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

William Henry Playfair Architectural Drawings

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-13
Scope and Contents The drawings in the collection range from Playfair's student drawings, sketch designs and preliminary schemes, to many presentation drawings in watercolours. The earliest catalogued plans, elevations and sections relate to the commission to complete the University (the College of Edinburgh), 1817 onwards. The Advocates' Library, Royal Terrace, Regent Terrace, the National Gallery, the National Monument, and New College also feature in the collection. Other material relates to the...
Dates: 1817-1849
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

William Henry Playfair letter books

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1675
Scope and Contents

What appear to be two surviving volumes of a larger series of letter-books (volume 4 covering 1830-33 and volume 7 covering 1840-45).

Dates: 1830-1845
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

William Logie, William Logie, Robert Scarth Valentine Logie

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1054
Scope and Contents The collection, as yet unsorted, is composed of : the manuscript preaching journal of Robert Scarth Valentine Logie and circa 100 sewn sheafs of manuscript notes - sermons; a catalogue of 468 discourses, or sermons, of William Logie (Senior), and accompanying manuscript sermon notes, together with a manuscript sermon preached in Lady Kirk, Kirkwall, 18 January 1816, for the National Thanksgiving 1816, the day appointed for thanksgiving after the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte (transcript...
Dates: 1790-1940
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Hall, Edward, b 1898 (Bookseller) 8
Moray House College of Education (1959-1991) 8
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 6
Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 6
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 6
Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 6
Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 5
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner) 5
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 1835-1924 (Professor of Geology, 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
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1729-:) 5
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 4
Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 4
Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature) 4
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 4
Koestler, Arthur, CBE, 1905-1983 (Hungarian-British author and journalist) 4
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 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, 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
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
Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1868-1974) 3
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (Scottish historian and philosopher) 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
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 3
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research - Edinburgh Research Station. IAPGR (1986-1993) 3
Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 3
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 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
Tragara Pressnn 3
University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Library 3
University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 3
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 3
Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 2
Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 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, 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
Campbell, Archibald Hunter, 1902-1989 (legal scholar, Professor of Public law, Dean of the Faculty of Law) 2
Church of Scotland 2
Church of Scotland (1560-) 2
Craigie, Patrick George, Major, 1843-1930 (statistician; army major) 2
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist) 2
Davidson Clinic (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2
Dickson, William Kirk, 1860-1949 (Librarian and Historian) 2
Dollar, Thomas Aitken, 1833-1909 (Veterinary scientist) 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
Emmett, William B, fl mid 20th century (psychologist) 2
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 2
Foreign Mission Committee the Church of Scotland 2
Geological Society of London (1807-:) 2
Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 2
Greenwood, Alan William, 1897-1981 (genetical physiologist and director of ARC Poultry Research Centre) 2
Hamish Henderson Archive Trust 2
Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 2
Holland, Sir Thomas Henry, 1868-1947 (geologist, Principal of the University of Edinburgh) 2
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 2
Hume, David, 1711-1776 (Scottish Philosopher) 2
Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 2
Jeffrey, Francis (Lord Jeffrey, Scottish judge and literary critic) (1773-1850) 2
Kirk, Robert, 1644-1692 (Folklorist and Church minister) 2
Lawley, Derrick, 1915-2012 (statistician) 2
Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 2
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, 1910-1996 (poet, teacher) 2
MacDonald, William Donald, 1827-1862 (lieutenant-colonel 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot) 2
Macmurray, John, 1891-1976 (chair of moral philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 2
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 2
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
Ringsleben, Mary R. E., Dr., fl. 1954-1968 (Edinburgh University graduate; signatory of the Committee of 100) 2
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh) 2
Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-:) 2
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (signatory to the American Declaration of Independence, physician, writer, educator, humanitarian) 2
Sarolea, Charles, 1870-1953 (Professor of French and Romance Philology, University of Edinburgh) 2
Saunders, William, 1743-1817 (physician) 2
School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges (fl1871) 2
Scott, Walter, 1729-1799 (Writer to the Signet, Father of the Scottish Writer) 2
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 2
Sime, James, 1843-1895 (Scottish biologist, literary critic, and historian) 2