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Notes from lectures on climate, geology and zoology given by Robert Jameson

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Identifier: Coll-1372
Scope and Contents

2 volumes of approximately 180 pages each: a careful transcription, with some diagrams, of lectures in climate, geology and zoology.

Both bear the book plate from the library of the Rev William Dansey, Rector of Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire, though there is nothing to suggest Dansey had been a student of Jameson's

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

Notes of lectures by Neil MacMichael (1808-1874), Professor of Ecclesiastical History, United Presbyterian Divinity Hall taken by John Mitchell Harvey (1836-1876)

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Identifier: MS MCM
Scope and Contents Notes taken at lectures by Neil MacMichael, given at the United Presbyterian Hall during the session of 1859. Session commenced 3 August 1859, and terminatedVarious pagination, restarting with some lectures. c. 230 pages total. Spine title reads: Notes on Church History [and] doctrine, J. M. H.Bound together with an Essay on the doctrine of baptismal regeneration. United Presbyterian Hall, Edinburgh. 31 August 1860. J. Mitchell Harvey, 5th Year. 108 pages....
Dates: 1859-1860
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Nouveaux souvenirs d'Holyrood

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Identifier: Coll-1181
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1831
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Oral history recordings made as part of the 'Towards Dolly' project

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Identifier: EUA CA15
Scope and Contents

Contains: Alan Archibald interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Adrian Bird interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Grahame Bulfield and William G. Hill in conversation; Grahame Bulfield interview (with Clare Button); Nick Hastie interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Peter Sharp interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Andrew Tait interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Gerald Wiener interview (with Clare Button); Ian Wilmut interview (with Grahame Bulfield).

Dates: 2 July 2014 - 20 March 2015
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers and Correspondence of Arthur Berriedale Keith

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Identifier: Coll-34
Scope and Contents The Papers and Correspondence of Arthur Berriedale Keith contain Colonial Office correspondence between 1901 and 1914; correspondence about constitutional matters from 1908 to 1939; correspondence, literary and general, with political figures such as R. Stafford Cripps and Herbert Samuel; material relating to the Government of India Bill, 1931-35, and to the Peace Treaty, 1919; news cuttings on Crown matters involving the abdication and coronation, 1936-37; material on Malta between 1924 and...
Dates: 1899-1966
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers and other material relating to C. Wyville Thomson

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers Illustrative of the History and Constitution of the University of Edinburgh

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Identifier: Coll-2114
Dates: 1611-1742
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Ailsa Giles Maxwell

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Alexander Falconer Giles, Lecturer in Classical History at the University of Edinburgh

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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