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Simmons, Ida

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-33
Scope and Contents

Nursing certificates 1919-1926; documents regarding later work 1940-1950, WWI war medals; M.B.E. medal

Dates: 1919-1950
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Simpson, Mary

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-71
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of nurse's midwifery diploma awarded to Mary Simpson by Alexander R. Simpson University of Edinburgh 1879; photocopy of Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital training certificate awarded to Mary Simpson 1879

Dates: 1879
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Sketch books and photo albums of Charles Lovett Gill

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1603
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: Box 1: 1 x photograph album with 'C. L' Gill' on endpaper. Album includes approx. 86 photographs of architectural subjects interspersed with family groups. Various captions including : New House, Sevenoaks, Jan-Feb '09, group photographs, the Fleet at Southend, King Edward's funeral, continental Europe 1 x photograph album with 'C. L' Gill' on...
Dates: 1904-1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Sketchbooks by R. M. Ballantyne, including seven autograph letters

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-327
Identifier: Coll-1838
Scope and Contents The collection consists of two sketchbooks by Scottish writer R. M. Ballantyne:1. The first sketchbook is made of approximately 85 leaves, almost all of which bear original drawings (pencil, ink and ink-and wash), cartoons, sketches and preliminary ideas. Some are highly finished images intended for a subsequently abandoned book of his fishing trip to Norway, as well as material for the published 'Freaks on the Fells'. On the first blank is Ballantyne's presentation inscription...
Dates: 1860s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Sketchbooks containing drawings and notes by John Williamson for the illustration of works by Sir Walter Scott

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1301
Scope and Contents

One of the two sketchbooks is titled on the front board, 'Sketches made at Edinburgh, Melrose and Craigmillar, etc, for drawings illustrating Sir Walters Scott's novels The Monastery and The Abbot'. There are several loose leaves and fragments in the second sketchbook.

The sketchbooks contain drawings in pencil and ink and some are coloured or washed. There are notes from lectures in the history of art.

Dates: 1888-1892
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Slide collection illustrating Edinburgh University Expedition to East Africa, 1965

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1119
Scope and Contents

The slide collection contains 46 slides showing the gathering of parasite samples and parasite treatment in Kenya, and 69 slides showing general views of Kenya and general aspects of the expedition.

Dates: 1965
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Slides of Professor Max Born

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1716
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the glass slides of Max Born, Chair of Natural Philosophy with special reference to Mathematical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, and joint Nobel Prize winner. The slides were possibly used as a teaching aid.Labels on drawers: "Portaits" (photographic portraits of physicists), "Nuclei, Radiation, Fundamental Particles", "Crystals", "Quantum Theory", "Miscellaenous" (x2), "Thermodynamics", "Negatives". Four drawers are unlabelled. Except for the...
Dates: c mid-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Small broadside - an ordinance of the Baillies in Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1107
Scope and Contents

This broadside is addressed toEdinburghand is dated 29 November 1720. The name Jo. Wightman, Baillie, J.P. appears at the bottom of the ordinance. There is a woodcut initial at the beginning of the text.

Dates: 1720
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Small collection of ephemera relating to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, particularly to public subscriptions, and to the Bicentenary pageant

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1555, Folder: SC-Acc-2016-0153
Identifier: Coll-1775
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of:1 x copy of the Report of the Proceedings at the Opening of the New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, on Wednesday 29 October 1879... this printed item has a pull-out 'bird's-eye view' of the building... and a 'List of subscribers to the building and furnishing funds'1 x copy of Monthly Reports by the Organising Secretary for Subscriptions on Work done in Town and Country, 1 March...
Dates: 1879-1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Smaller acquisitions collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-1848
Scope and Contents

This is an artificial collection of items too small to constitute a collection on their own, generally arranged by date of receipt.

Dates: 18th-21st centuries
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 139
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 12
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1729-:) 11
Hall, Edward, b 1898 (Bookseller) 10
Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 9
Barker, Robert, 1739-1806 (Irish artist) 8
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 8
Moray House College of Education (1959-1991) 8
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 (Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College) 7
Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 7
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner) 7
Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 7
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 7
Barker, Henry Aston, 1774-1856 (Artist) 6
Fraser, Sir Thomas Richard, 1841-1920 (Knight ; Professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh) 6
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 1835-1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 6
Koestler, Arthur, CBE, 1905-1983 (Hungarian-British author and journalist) 6
Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 6
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 5
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 (professor, University of Edinburgh) 5
Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 5
Church of Scotland 5
Erskine, Ralph, Rev, 1685-1752 (minister and poet) 5
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 5
Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature) 5
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 5
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 5
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 5
Playfair, William Henry, 1790-1857 (architect) 5
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (Professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 5
Roslin Institute 5
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 5
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 5
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 5
University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Library 5
Victor Gollancz Ltd 5
Animal Breeding Research Organisation. ABRO (1945 - 1986) 4
Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 4
Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 4
Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899 (Minister of Pilrig and Temperance Reformer) 4
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 4
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 4
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 4
Dunfermline College of Physical Education 4
Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 4
Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 4
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4
Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 4
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 4
Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 4
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 4
Monro, Alexander, 1697-1767 ("Primus", Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, 1874-1969 (missionary and ecumenist) 4
Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Poultry Research Centre (1947-1986) (research institution) 4
Smith, Sydney Alfred, Sir, 1883-1969 (Professor of Forensic Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 4
University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 4
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 4
Auerbach, Charlotte, 1899-1994 (professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh) 3
Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, 1813-1865 (lawyer, poet, professor of Belles Lettres at University of Edinburgh) 3
Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 3
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 3
Born, Max, 1882-1970 (physicist) 3
Brash, James Couper, 1886-1958 (Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University) 3
Bruce, William Speirs, 1867-1921 (polar explorer and oceanographer) 3
Chiene, John, 1843-1923 (Scottish surgeon, Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh ) 3
Church Missionary Society 3
Combe, George, 1788-1858 (Phrenologist) 3
Cowan House (student hall of residence) 3
Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 (English military and political leader) 3
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist) 3
Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon) 3
East India Company (1600-1874) 3
Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1868-1974) 3
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (Scottish historian and philosopher) 3
Grant, John, fl 1955 (Bookseller) 3
Gregory, James, 1753-1821 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 3
Hood, Helen Patuffa, 1889-1967 (harpist) 3
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 3
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research - Edinburgh Research Station. IAPGR (1986-1993) 3
Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 3
Knox, John, c 1513-1572 (Scottish preacher) 3
Laws, Robert, 1851-1934 (Scottish missionary) 3
Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988 (Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 3
Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 3
London Missionary Society 3
Love , John, Rev Dr, 1757-1825 (Church of Scotland minister ) 3
Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959 (poet, novelist and translator) 3
Muir, Willa, 1890-1970 (novelist, essayist and translator) 3
Nyerere, Julius Kambarage, 1922-1999 (President of Tanzania) 3
Pillans, James (Regent, University of Edinburgh) 3
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh) 3
Stevens, William Victor, 1900-1987 (President of the University of Edinburgh Graduates' Association) 3
Stewart, Sir Thomas Grainger, 1837-1900 (Physician, President of the BMA) 3
Syme, James, 1799-1870 (Scottish pioneering surgeon; Professor of clinical surgery at the University of Edinburgh) 3
Torrance, Thomas Forsyth, 1913-2007 (theologian, and Professor of Christian Dogmatics at New College, Edinburgh) 3
Tragara Pressnn 3