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Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-11
Scope and Contents
The papers cover the years 1876 to 1910 and contains a great many autograph letters from eminent anatomists and medical men, including ten letters from Joseph Lister. There is also a substantial sequence of notebooks and working papers containing detailed notes of experiments and dissections together with drawings and drafts for lectures, and a separate sequence of manuscripts for lectures and addresses. An item of particular interest is an album of 96 photographs from Cunningham's service...
Dates:
c 1876-1910
Papers and other material relating to C. Wyville Thomson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1327
Scope and Contents
The material in the collection consists of:
- at E94.90: a letter from Charles Wyville Thomson written on 2 June 1850 at the home of the Reverend Ainslie and addressed to 'My Dear Sir' - it refers to how he had met with a kind reception from Mr. and Mrs. Ainslie who 'pressed him to dine with them and to take a bed at their home', and how the following day they were to take him to Sir David Brewster's -...
Dates:
1841-1874
Papers Illustrative of the History and Constitution of the University of Edinburgh
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2114
Dates:
1611-1742
Papers of Ailsa Giles Maxwell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-892
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed partly of notes from the following lecture courses taken by Macdonald: Political Economy II, 1945-1946; Political Economy, 1946-1947; Political Economy, Honours, 1946-1947; undated Economics, Honours; undated European Economic History; and, undated Political Economy (Dr. Rankin). Another part of the collection is composed of Maxwell's lecture notes, being: English Literature, First Ordinary, and Scottish History, 1938-1939; British History, Honours,...
Dates:
1938-1948
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.
Dates:
1898-1949
Papers of Andrew Nisbet Bogle
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1004
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of the following:in Box 1/9:
- box containing Moderator's laces
- offprints, being copies of: the Churches Conference, held at the Library Hall, New College, Edinburgh, and its 'Draft of Unity Act' 10 February 1927; Committee to Confer with the United Free Church of Scotland; Scottish Church Society and its 'Notes on the Basis and Plan of Union'; and, Principal...
Dates:
1892-1980
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;...
Dates:
1903-1965
Papers of Charles Mackie
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-423
Scope and Contents
Volumes:
Index Funereus 29 Annorum, June 1727 - June 1756 (Dc.1.47)
Commonplace books containing chiefly notes and extracts on Roman and general history, 2 vols [also containing a list in vol. 2 of Mackie's students in History and Roman Antiquities] (Dc.5.24)
Annotationes in ontologiam Gerrardi de Vries, 1703 (Dc.7.79)
Commonplace book containing...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1703-1756
Papers of David Preston (History of the Colonial Mission of the Church of Scotland)
Fonds
Identifier: GD6
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of twelve notebooks containing the unpublished manuscript version of the History of the Colonial Mission of the Church of Scotland.
Dates:
[ca. 1946]
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of Douglas Scott Falconer
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1478
Identifier: Coll-1690
Scope and Contents
Contains: a file of correspondence; inserts removed from various editions of Falconer's 'Introduction to Quantitative Genetics'; photographs of Falconer and colleagues at the Institute of Animal Genetics; cassette tapes of contributors to 'Genetical Research' 73:3 (1999) reading out their contributions.Also includes at SC-Acc-2023-0103: five folders entitled "Institute of Animal Genetics History"; "Reviews and comments on DSF's 'An Introduction to Quantitative Genetics'"; "Notes...
Dates:
1939-2004