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Volumes of Thomas Elder
Fonds
Identifier: MS ELD
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
c.1830-1840
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Waverley Care
Fonds
Identifier: GD36
Scope and Contents
The collection reflects the formation of the Waverley Care Trust in administrative papers and correspondence. Reports, newsletters, photographs and publicity materials document projects, community activities and initiatives run by the Waverley Care Trust, later (after 2003) Waverley Care.
Dates:
1989 – 2000s
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Western General Hospital
Fonds
Identifier: LHB13
Scope and Contents
Administration 1930-1984; plans and buildings 1954-1985; patients (bound volumes) 1930-1966
Dates:
1930-1984
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Western Mediaeval Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MS
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 275 mediaeval manuscript books and c. 45 fragments which have been donated to, and purchased by the University in the course of its history. These are all books and fragments written by hand, from the early 11th to the 16th centuries. Many are finely illuminated and decorated. The collection is mainly composed of bibles and liturgical texts, books of hours, treatises of theology and philosophy, legal and medical works, examples of pre-Reformation Scottish music,...
Dates:
early 11th-16th centuries
William Burton-Stewart bound Game books
Collection — Box: CLX-D-72
Identifier: Coll-1887
Scope and Contents
Two 'game books' which belonged to Major William Burton-Stewart, containing score tables recording his session of game birds shooting and black-and-white photographs of social events, hunting, and people. It also includes sketches and handwritten biographical and travelling accounts by Burton-Stewart himself. Places mentioned in the game books include Ratho Park, Conaglen, Stroud, Darleith, Lothians and the Borders, Venice, India, Ontario (Canada), etc.Highlights in the first album...
Dates:
1889-1935
William Henry Playfair Architectural Drawings
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-13
Scope and Contents
The drawings in the collection range from Playfair's student drawings, sketch designs and preliminary schemes, to many presentation drawings in watercolours. The earliest catalogued plans, elevations and sections relate to the commission to complete the University (the College of Edinburgh), 1817 onwards. The Advocates' Library, Royal Terrace, Regent Terrace, the National Gallery, the National Monument, and New College also feature in the collection. Other material relates to the Observatory,...
Dates:
1817-1849
William Henry Playfair letter books
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1675
Scope and Contents
What appear to be two surviving volumes of a larger series of letter-books (volume 4 covering 1830-33 and volume 7 covering 1840-45).
Dates:
1830-1845
William Logie, William Logie, Robert Scarth Valentine Logie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1054
Scope and Contents
The collection, as yet unsorted, is composed of : the manuscript preaching journal of Robert Scarth Valentine Logie and circa 100 sewn sheafs of manuscript notes - sermons; a catalogue of 468 discourses, or sermons, of William Logie (Senior), and accompanying manuscript sermon notes, together with a manuscript sermon preached in Lady Kirk, Kirkwall, 18 January 1816, for the National Thanksgiving 1816, the day appointed for thanksgiving after the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte (transcript...
Dates:
1790-1940
Williamson, Edith Winchester Hindmarsh
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-40
Scope and Contents
Edinburgh Ladies' College certificates 1930-1931; examination papers and certificates for sick children nursing training 1934; General Nursing Council syllabuses, papers and certificates 1937; orthopaedic nursing training papers 1942; Victoria Infirmary nurse's badge 1938; Edinburgh University Sister-Tutor Certificate examination papers 1947-1948; Sister-Tutor Certificate Graduation certificate and programme 1948; Sister-Tutor registration papers 1952-1953; photograph
Dates:
1930-1953
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Willowbrae House Maternity Home
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-55
Scope and Contents
Framed certificate of registration of Willowbrae House as a Maternity Home by the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh, 1938
Dates:
1938
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
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- Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 4
- Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 4
- MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 4
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- Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4
- Poultry Research Centre (1947-1986) (research institution) 4
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- Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
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- Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 3
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- Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
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- Pillans, James (Regent, University of Edinburgh) 3
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- Smith, Sydney Alfred, Sir, 1883-1969 (Professor of Forensic Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
- Tragara Pressnn 3
- University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Library 3
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- Unknown (Unknown) 3
- Ambler, Richard Penry, 1933-: (professor of protein chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, 1813-1865 (lawyer, poet) 2
- Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley, 1853-1922 (professor of botany, University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh) 2
- Bickersteth, Robert (surgeon at Liverpool Royal Infirmary) 2
- Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 (professor, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 2
- Borland, Catherine Robina, d 1946 (manuscript historian) 2
- Brash, James Couper, 1886-1958, Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University 2
- Brewster, David, 1781-1868 (natural philosopher and vice-chancellor, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Buchan, John, Baron Tweedsmuir, 1875-1940 (Scottish novelist and historian) 2
- Bulfield, Grahame, 1941-: (geneticist, formerly director and chief executive, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh and vice-principal, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Campbell, Archibald Hunter, 1902-1989 (legal scholar, Professor of Public law, Dean of the Faculty of Law) 2
- Chisolm, George Goudie, 1850-1930 (geographer) 2
- Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 2
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- Davidson Clinic (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2
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- Dollar, Thomas Aitken, 1833-1909 (Veterinary scientist) 2
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- Edinburgh College of Art (1907-:) 2
- Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre (1907-1959) 2
- Edinburgh University Sports Union (EUSU) (c1971-present) 2
- Edinburgh University Women's Athletics Club 2
- Emmett, William B, fl mid 20th century (psychologist) 2
- Foreign Mission Committee the Church of Scotland 2
- Fraser, Marjory Kennedy-, 1857-1930 (singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger) 2
- Geological Society of London (1807-:) 2
- Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 2
- Greenwood, Alan William, 1897-1981 (genetical physiologist and director of ARC Poultry Research Centre) 2
- Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) 2
- Guthrie, Douglas James, 1885-1975 (surgeon and historian of medicine) 2
- Hamish Henderson Archive Trust 2
- Hannay, Robert Kerr, Professor, 1867-1940 (historian, palaeographer) 2
- Heriot-Watt College (1885-1966) 2
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