Russia
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
A Troika, 1870s-1930s
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.
Cow S[outh] Russia Breed, Tkrannskoy Korova, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a man standing with a cow of the Southern Russian breed, 'Trkrannskoy Korova' in a farm yard in the early 20th century.
Food Statistics, 1870s-1930s
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.
Geological Survey notebook 'V V bis', 1897
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.
Geological Survey notebooks, 1877-1900
The series of Geological Survey notebook consists of:
- 10 volumes, chronologically arranged (1877-1900)
Incubation in Russia, 1954
Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1953-57.
Lantern slides, 1920
Leaflet from the Anglo-Russian Literary Society, 1894
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.
Lecture Notes of John Robison
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.
Lecture on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', 1886
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.