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Collector's box and teaching cabinet of Catherine Mary Stirling

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-1893
Scope and Contents This collection consists of one Victorian wooden box, used for collecting and teaching, that belonged to Catherine Mary of Stirling, from Kippenross House, near Dunblane. It is still complete and fitted with 5 removable trays containing specimens of: Animal & Vegetable Substances (such as nut galls, Portuguese cork, a piece of tortoise shell, timber specimens, pearls, etc.) ...
Dates: 1847
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Edinburgh Plinian Society

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-275
Scope and Contents

The records of the Edinburgh Plinian Society consist of a Minute Book for the period 1826-1828 and a Minute Book for the period 1828-1841. Appended to the relevant volume is a note of the references to the membership of Charles Darwin.

Dates: 1826-1841
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from Archibald Hepburn to James Cunningham, W.S.

 Fonds
Identifier: MS HEP
Scope and Contents

Notebook containing a 6 page letter of Archibald Hepburn to James Cunningham, W. S. Letter dated 10 February 1850. Notebook also contains an 8 page list of insect specimens, to be given to Cunningham's son Alexander. The rest of the notebook is blank.

Laid into the back of the notebook is a cartography sketch of Calton Hill, from Professor John Fleming's natural science class, 1855.

Dates: 1850
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Material relating to John Lowe

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1502
Scope and Contents A bound collection of pamphlets and off-prints, mostly on botanical subjects, which contain working notes of John Lowe and some watercolours which may be his too. There is a MS table of contents which lists nearly all the items but not in the order they are bound. The MS additions include: details of dated sightings, with place, to 'Bennett Notes on Norfolk plants'; and, MS notes of commentaries on the works. There is an autograph letter, 10 December 1898, from H.E. Brown of the...
Dates: 1856-1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Minutes of the Edinburgh University Darwinian Society

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.3.3
Identifier: Coll-2165
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh University. Darwinian Society Minutes. 1891-1896. Several hands, entries in ink and pencil. Includes printed syllabus for Winter Session 1892-93 on f. 67.

Dates: 1891-1896
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

 Fonds
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 given by Robert Jameson

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.5.23
Identifier: Coll-2199
Scope and Contents

Lectures on Natural History by Professor Robert Jameson, Edinburgh University. 1835-36. Only includes lectures on Meteorology and Hydrology.

Dates: 1835-1836
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of lectures on Natural History by Prof. John Walker, taken down by an unknown student

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2956
Scope and Contents This manuscript volume contains notes from lectures on natural history delivered by Professor John Walker at the University of Edinburgh in the early 1780s. Written in a neat italic hand by an unidentified student, the volume is inscribed on the rectos only and includes foliated index leaves at the end.Subjects covered include hydrography, geology, mineralogy, botany, and meteorology, with the majority of the lectures devoted to meteorology. Topics include unusual weather...
Dates: c 1782
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Dr. John Walker

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-205
Scope and Contents

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Dates: 1731-1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist) 2
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 2
Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman) 2
Adam, James (former owner of Coll-2266) 1
Agriculture Society of Edinburgh 1
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 1
Ashworth, James Hartley, 1874-1936 (professor of zoology and later of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 1
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 1
Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899 (Minister of Pilrig and Temperance Reformer) 1
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de, 1707-1788 (French naturalist, mathematician) 1
Cromie, Howard P, fl 1951 (donor of Edinburgh University Darwinian Society records) 1
Cronstedt, Axel Fredrik, 1722-1765 (Swedish chemist) 1
Dalyell, John Graham, 1775-1851 (Antiquary and Naturalist) 1
Dansey, William, Rev., 1792?1856 (clergyman | Rector of Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire) 1
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 1
Davidson, Andrew Bruce, Rev Prof, 1831-1902 (Free Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages in New College, Edinburgh) 1
Dods, Marcus, 1834-1909, New Testament scholar 1
Dufresne, Louis, 1752-1832, French Taxidermist, Natural Historian 1
Highland Society of Scotland 1
Home, Henry, 1696-1782 (Lord Kames, Judge and philosopher) 1
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 1
Jardine, William, 1800-1874, Sir (7th Baronet Naturalist) 1
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 (French chemist) 1
Linnaeus, Carl, 1707-1778 (Swedish taxonomist) 1
Low, George, 1746-1795, Naturalist 1
Lowe, John, Dr., 1830-1902 (physician; natural historian and botanist) 1
Macphail, Earle Monteith, 1861-1937 (Principal of Madras Christian College) 1
Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Natural History Society of Edinburgh 1
Owens College (Manchester) 1
Peter I, 1672-1725 (Emperor of Russia) 1
Rainy, Robert, 1826-1906 (Free Church Minister and Author) 1
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (Professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Stirling, Catherine Mary, 1819-1879 (Collector) 1
The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1780-) (Edinburgh) 1
Thomson, Charles Wyville, 1830-1882 (naturalist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 1
University of Edinburgh, Natural History Collection. Natural History Collection (1697-1812) 1
University of Glasgow (Scottish University)) 1
Watt, James, 1736-1819 (engineer) 1
Werner, Abraham Gottlob, 1750-1817 (German geologist, inspector and teacher, Freiberg Mining Academy) 1
Wernerian Natural History Society (1808-1858) 1
Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766 (professor of theory of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 1
Wilson, Gregg, 1865-1951 (Lecturer of zoology) 1