The item, a bronze medal, has an unmilled and uninscribed edge. On one side the medal features the University arms of the saltire, castle, book and thistle, and around the edge the Latin: SCOT.REG.EDIN.ACAD.JACOB.VI. On the other is inscribed PHYSICUS CARGILL G. KNOTT, with the year 1873-74 framed by laurel branches.
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This fonds consists of the Records of the Edinburgh Chile Solidarity Committee (c. 1973-1978), with some material relating to the Chile Solidarity Campaign UK-wide. The records of the committee include minutes, correspondence, membership lists, publications, documents relating to the "adoption" of Chilean refugees by the committee, and various printed ephemera used to spread awareness of their campaign and advertise events organised to support the committee. There are also...
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Majority of material found within 1973-1978
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A single volume in two parts. The first part relates to the buildings use as the Mechanics Library, the second relates to its period as University Hall. In the front is bound an architectural plan and two engravings of the buildings.Section I begins with a Preface based on extracts from Daniel Wilson, 'Edinburgh in Olden Time'. Bound in before the Preface is a two-sided illustration, one side titled "M'Morran Superintends his bigging". Thererafter follows a table of contents...
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The fonds consists of the research archive of John Martin relating to his on-going project on student theatre, which aims to compile a history of student theatre in Edinburgh from 1850 to 1970. In order to understand the wider student context in which theatre groups had arisen, John Martin started to work on two "spin-off" projects to support his research: one on student numbers at the University of Edinburgh between 1836 and 1966, and a second one on student societies in Edinburgh...
This notebook contains lectures on the works of Aristotle, dictated by Thomas Craufurd, Regent of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and taken down by student George Dalgliesh. The lectures cover the third and fourth years of Dalgliesh’s degree, and, besides logic and metaphysics, deal with scientific subjects such as physics, astronomy, and anatomy. The notes are embellished with humorous doodles.
Notes of lectures on clinical medicine given by Prof. John Rutherford, 1755-1756, and notes of lectures on anatomy given by Alexander Monro primus, circa 1752-1755, taken by J. Cabbell.
The medals are the Edinburgh University class medals: geology and mineralogy, 1899-1900; practical geology and mineralogy, 1900-1901; practical botany, 1901 (Edinburgh School of Medicine); practical zoology, 1901-1902; and petrology, 1902. The collection also includes the British Association Medal, 1923, for scientific research in South Africa, and the Draper Medal of the Geological Society of South Africa, 1935.
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2 x University cups (larger cup being Ramsay Lodge, Annual TT, awarded 1940 and 1941, cycling; and, smaller Irish Cup 1941, rugby).1 x group photograph showing participants in Ramsay Lodge, Irish Cup, 1941, rugby, including I. M. R. Scroggie (standing back row 2nd from left).The larger cup (inscribed Ramsay Lodge, Annual TT) was made by J. & D. Meek, Edinburgh. It is also inscribed with numerous names of winners from 1920 to 1943. No race was run in 1924....
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- 4 minute books: 1898-1912, 1912-1936, 1936-53 and 1953-61.- Log books, Vols. 2 & 3: May 1919 - June 1920 and June 1920 - May 1921.- One folder of correspondence and reports of use of Union Canal by Men's and Women's Boat Clubs (EUBC and EUWBC), 1953-1960 (old reference: Da.65).- Additional material donated in 1999 (EUA-Acc-1999-021): one envelope containing photographs (named), newspaper cuttings, programmes 1930s, and 1999 Edinburgh & Glasgow...
