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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...
Notes and extracts about life in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 1889-1904; notes on a speech by Sir Joseph Lister 1891; notes on Residency Log 1911-1912; correspondence 1968-1971
Correspondence regarding the working of the National Radium Commission, the National Radium Centre at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and the Joint Committee of the Infirmary and University of Edinburgh 1929-1948
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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...
The unsigned letters, mostly from Edinburgh, were all written during November or December 1831. They describe a trip from Paris to Edinburgh, and life among the French refugees there. Although the last word has been obliterated, an inscription reads: 'Quoique l'auteur ne se nomme pas, tout le monde le reconnait pour M. le Baron de [...]'. On the inside of the front cover is pasted a note reading, 'Pour mes pauvres petites filles de France', and signed Louise.
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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
-...
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This fonds consists of the lectures notes, photographs and slides of Rev. George Hastie, student at the University of Edinburg in the late 1960s. The lecture notes were taken by Hastie for his MA course at Edinburgh Univertsity between 1967 and 1970. The slides show photographs taken by Hastie in 1966, 1967 and 1968. Also includes a rectorial election leaflet entitled 'The Making of a Rector', printed for the Tom Hutton Campaign in 1968.1. The lecture notes include a complete set...
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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...
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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...
