Russia
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Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
A Troika, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3131
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a troika in a farmyard in front of a barn in Russia in the early 20th century. Three horses are harnessed together to a carriage driven by a man with another man sitting in the back.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Cow S[outh] Russia Breed, Tkrannskoy Korova, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2860
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a man standing with a cow of the Southern Russian breed, 'Trkrannskoy Korova' in a farm yard in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Food Statistics, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2066
Scope and Contents
Text regarding the figures of a Mr. R. H. Rew, a statistician of the Board of Agriculture, noting that the [United Kingdom] produces more than half its own food supply. It continues by noting the location, cost and type of food imported from other countries, chiefly Canada and Russia in the early 20th centuy.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Geological Survey notebook 'V V bis', 1897
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/1/8
Scope and Contents
General drawings made primarily in Greece and Russia, along with notes of those present on the 'Volga Excursion' from the 7th International Geological Congress, 1897, St Petersburg.
Dates:
1897
Geological Survey notebooks, 1877-1900
Series
Identifier: Coll-74/1
Scope and Contents
The series of Geological Survey notebook consists of:
- 10 volumes, chronologically arranged (1877-1900)
Dates:
1877-1900
Incubation in Russia, 1954
Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/102
Scope and Contents
Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1953-57.
Dates:
1954
Lantern slides, 1920
Series
Identifier: Coll-705/7
Scope and Contents
There are six bundles of lantern slides relating to Marjorie Rackstraw's war relief service in Russia. Photographer is unknown. Some slides include messages to encourage those in London to aid in the efforts, and include images of victims of the war, and places in Russia, as well as slides of text describing how and why it is Great Britain’s duty to assist in this aid. Others are images of children and families who are refugees of the famine. It may be of note that the lists Marjorie Rackstraw...
Dates:
1920
Leaflet from the Anglo-Russian Literary Society, 1894
Item — Box CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0071
Scope and Contents
One leaflet from the Anglo-Russian Literary Society (1894), which is the first edition of a short account of the newly-founded Anglo-Russian Literary Society, published by Berman Gurovich, a member of the Society.
Dates:
1894
Lecture Notes of John Robison
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-204
Scope and Contents
Lecture notes from the time when Robison was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. The notes embrace the sciences of mechanics, hydrodynamics, astronomy and optics, together with electricity and magnetism.
It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.
It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.
Dates:
c1779-c1801
Lecture on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', 1886
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/7/2
Scope and Contents
Notes for 4 lectures on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', given to the Royal Institution in 1886. Sir Archibald Geikie looked at the emergence of types of geological formations against a geological timeframe and how they have been affected by various processes, especially the action of volcanoes and materials produced by them, within the natural world. He used examples from numerous locations from different parts of the British Isles.
Dates:
1886