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Material relating to Professor George Chrystal
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1491
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: 1 x letter from Professor George Chrystal to the Rt. Hon. The Prime Minister [Herbert Henry Asquith, 1908-1916] from 5 Belgrave Crescent, Edinburgh, 12 June 1911. The letter, in effect turns down the honour of a knighthood 'on the occasion of His Majesty's approaching Coronation'. He was, in the first place, 'at this moment suffering from the effects of severe illness' and it would be several months before he could 'appear in London or take part in any...
Dates:
1890-1911
Material relating to the editing of 'Crisis of the democratic intellect', by George Elder Davie
Collection — Box: CLX-A-1555, Folder: Sc-Acc-2016-0189
Identifier: Coll-1792
Content Description
The collection relates to the editing of "Crisis of the democratic intellect", and includes manuscript and typescript, photographs, and promotional material.
Dates:
1980-1986
Material relating to the research and interests of Matthew H. Kaufman
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1808 / SC-Acc-2016-0196
Identifier: Coll-1808
Content Description
The collection of largely off-print and other ts material, and photographs... is composed of:
1 x folder - photographs of mouse embryos
1 x folder - ts and off-print material on phrenology
1 x folder - off-print material on medical history
1 x folder - off-print material on the mouse embryo
1 x folder - off-print material on other science
1 x folder - photographs of mouse embryos
1 x folder - ts and off-print material on phrenology
1 x folder - off-print material on medical history
1 x folder - off-print material on the mouse embryo
1 x folder - off-print material on other science
Dates:
1990-2006
Mathematical archive of Professor Alexander Craig Aitken
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1529
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of mathematical mansucripts and the corrected manuscript, and correspondence around, the publication Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman. It also contains off-prints and publications by Aitken, papers and correspondence relating to Aitken's work at Edinburgh University and letters to and from academics, family and friends, as well as letters of condolence addressed to Mrs. Aitken. There is also a quantity of...
Dates:
1910-1995
Musical manuscripts, artwork, and photographs relating to Helen Patuffa Hood
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1102
Identifier: Coll-1393
Scope and Contents
This fonds contains paper documents such as correspondence to Helen Patuffa Hood, concerts programmes and other printed materials; artworks by Helen Patuffa Hood; and material related to the book Songs of the Hebrides. In the out-sized box are some photographs of Helen Patuffa Hood and Marjory Kennedy-Fraser.
Dates:
1909-1938
Papers of A. W. S. Thompson M.B.
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1050
Scope and Contents
Between 1943 and 1945, Thompson set about keeping a personal wartime journal hoping to register possible changes to his psychological make-up. The journal offers data on the effects of long-term overseas service amongst officers. The journal is in diary form with 9 volumes, covering the period 18 July 1943 to 15 October 1945, and written while in North Africa, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Greece, and Austria. Within the diaries are newspaper cuttings of the period, photographs, franked...
Dates:
1943-1945
Papers of Alexander Falconer Giles, Lecturer in Classical History at the University of Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1828
Content Description
This collection consists of approx. 50 notebooks and bound volumes of notes taken by Giles as a student at Balliol College, and as a lecturer in Classical History at the University of Edinburgh. Also includes a typescript entitled 'On Land, Sea and Ice. An Autobiography' by J. Burn Wood, 1947.
It also includes one photograph album and eight individual photographs acquired later, all related to Alexander F. Giles and his family.
It also includes one photograph album and eight individual photographs acquired later, all related to Alexander F. Giles and his family.
Dates:
1898-1949
Papers of Andrew Graham Grieve
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1725
Scope and Contents
The archive is composed of correspondence, family papers, printed matter and newspaper cuttings, literary works, and diary.
Dates:
1883-1965
Papers of Arthur Ruffell Barlow
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-208
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of material about the Church of Scotland mission in Kenya, about Kikuyu language and culture, and about the interests and concerns of Africans and their relation to the government. In particular it includes: Barlow's comments on and additions to theKikuyu-English Dictionaryby L.J. Beecher and G.S.B. Beecher (including volumes of the 1935 dictionary with Barlow's handwritten amendments) with correspondence (1956-1962) about the publication of a revised version; Barlow's...
Dates:
1903-1965
Papers of Colonel Cecil Charles Murison
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2066
Content Description
This fonds consists of the papers of Colonel Cecil Charles Murison, physician and surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. It contains:
Certificates earned when he was studying in Edinburgh and in Liverpool, and in the Indian Military Service (1891-1930);
Published medical articles by Col. Murison and some related correspondence (1901-1926);
Small portrait photograph (undated)...
Dates:
1891-1942
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- Campbell, John Frederick, 1790-1860 (1st Earl Cawdor) 1
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- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 (English military and political leader) 1
- Currie, Sir Alastair Robert, 1921-1994 (Professor of Pathology, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Czarnecki, Louisa Agnes, fl 1861 (Scottish poet) 1
- Darling, Sir Frank Fraser, 1903-1979 (human ecologist and senior lecturer in ecology and conservation, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Davie, George Elder, 1912-2007 (philosopher) 1
- Davies, Reginald, 1887-1971 (Colonial Administrator) 1
- Dickson, William Kirk, 1860-1949, Librarian and Historian 1
- Donaldson, Gordon, 1913-1993 (Scottish historian; Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography) 1
- Dougal, Helen Lewise, 1906-1976 (Scottish teacher) 1
- Drake, Frederick Seguier, 1892-1974 (English Baptist priest; Dean of the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong) 1
- Drummond, Frances A, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Drummond, Jean, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Drummond, Victoria A, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Edinburgh Graduates Theatre Group (1954-) 1
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- Edinburgh University Sports Union (EUSU) (c1971-present) 1
- Ellis, Peter Berresford, b 1943 (British historian and author) 1
- Elmslie, James S. K., fl. 1930-1970 (Veterinarian) 1
- Fletcher, Charles Montague, 1911-1995 (physician and epidemiologist) 1
- Fraser, John R, d 1961 (Glaciologist, Imperial College, and Edinburgh University graduate) 1
- Fraser, Sir John, 1885-1947 (Principal of Edinburgh University and surgeon) 1
- Freshwater, Nancy (Annie), 1874-1959 (Married to missionary Will Freshwater) 1
- Freshwater, Will, 1872-1936 (Missionary) 1
- Garibaldi, Guiseppe, 1807 - June 1882 (Italian General, Patriot, Revolutionary and Republican) 1
- Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner) 1
- Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Giles, Alexander Falconer, 1881-1963 (Lecturer in Classical History, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Glaister, John, 1892-1971 (Professor of Forensic Medicine at Glasgow University) 1
- Grieve, Andrew Graham (brother of Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
- Heatley, Norman George, 1911-2004 (English biochemist) 1
- Henry VIII, 1491-1547 (King of England) 1
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- Hunter, Margaret Jane Campbell, 1857-1938 (Gaelic culture advocate and suffragist) 1
- Inglis, Alexander Adam, c 1840-1913 (photographer) 1
- Jennings, Margaret Augusta, 1904-1994 (British scientist) 1
- John Dover, Wilson, Professor, 1881-1969 (Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Edinburgh University) 1
- John Paul II, 1920-2005 (Pope) 1
- Jones, Kenneth, fl 1990s (early penicillin patient) 1
- Kaufman, Matthew H., Professor, 1942-2013 (Professor of Anatomy) 1
- Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 1
- Kennedy, Marjorie Jean Oswald, c1916-2003 (Edinburgh University Library member of staff) 1
- Kenyan African National Union (founded 1960) 1
- Kenyatta, Jomo, c 1897-1978 (Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician) 1
- Kilburn, Benjamin West, 1827-1909 (American photographer; stereoscopic view publisher) 1
- Liddell, Eric Henry, 1902-1945 (Olympic Athlete and Missionary) 1
- London Missionary Society 1
- Lumsden, Susy F, fl 1910s (treasurer of 'The Cavalier club') 1
- Lundholm, Dr., Eric Olof, b. 1915 (Physician, Psychotherapist) 1
- Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 1
- Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell, 1850-1926 1
- Mac a' Ghobhainn, Seumas, 1930-1987 (Scottish author and political campaigner) 1
- MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 1
- MacWilliam, Iain Coutts, 1926-2013, brewing scientist 1
- Macphail, Earle Monteith, 1861-1937 (Principal of Madras Christian College) 1
- Masson Hall (1897-) 1
- Mathieson, Anne (Padi) (Edinburgh University alumnus) 1
- McBeath, Norman, fl 1990s-2010s (photographer) 1
- McNair, Thomas Jaffrey, 1927-1994 (surgeon and surgeon to the Queen in Scotland) 1
- Morrison, Frederick Thomas, fl. 1885, Engineer 1
- Murison, Cecil Charles, 1874-1942 (Colonel, Indian Medical Service) 1
- NHS Education for Scotland 1
- Nares, Sir George Strong, 1831-1915 1
- Nyerere, Julius Kambarage, 1922-1999 (President of Tanzania) 1
- Ogilvie, Alan Grant, 1887-1954 (Scottish geographer) 1
- Orr, John, 1885-1966 (Professor of French) 1
- Pilcher, Percy, 1866-1899 (British aviation pioneer) 1
- Potter (née Ross), Elizabeth Mackay, Dr., 1924-1979 (physician) 1
- Potter, Jacobus Louw, Dr. (physician, scientist) 1
- Rae, Oswald, 1892-1967 (magician) 1
- Roach, William, fl 1969-1970 (Scottish historian) 1
- Ryan, Edward, 1793-1875 (English lawyer and judge) 1
- Scroggie, Ian McGregor Reith (Edinburgh University alumnus) 1
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