France
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Locator = 46.227638;2.213749,Created For = France
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Note which reads 'Record Duc [-] of France in Braes of Loch[eil]', c1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/106
Scope and Contents
Note which reads 'Record Duc [-] of France in Braes of Loch[eil]'.
Dates:
c1892
Notebook No.111, July 1843-11 August 1843
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/111
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from his travels through France (started in previous notebook, Number 110), London, and Bristol (continued in following notebook Number 112). It is dated July to Aug 11th 1843. Notes are in pencil and ink and are primarily field notes. The index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 113-116. Lyell's own index Index.
July to Aug[ust] 11th 1843.
France - London -...
Dates:
July 1843-11 August 1843
Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', late 19th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/9/1
Scope and Contents
Notes for 6 lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', encompasing a wide variety of related subjects. Sir Archibald Geike looked at various geological periods and how both the areas occupied by land and water changed over time. He looked at the creation of many geological formations, at the materials they were composed of and the processes involved, including the infleunce of different elements within the natural world. He used as examples numerous locations, mostly within the British Isles but...
Dates:
late 19th century
Oxen Used By the French to Draw Heavy Guns, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1796
Scope and Contents
Photograph of teams of yoked oxen used by French soldiers to draw heavy artillery guns down a road in the countryside in France during World War I.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Papers in geography, history, and science, 1750-1781
Item
Identifier: Coll205/2/2 (Dc.1.58)
Scope and Contents
Approximately 75 mostly handwritten leaves, including a 2-page colour drawing of Burrum chundalle, an extract from a history of Louisiana by W. de Page du Pratz (1783); extract from a history of Sumatra by William Marsden (1783); extract from the 'Constitution of the German Empire', s.n., s.d.; extract from 'Baretti's Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy' (1775); extract from 'Baretti's Travels Thro' England Portugal Spain & France to Genoa (1760); extract from 'Travels thro'...
Dates:
1750-1781
Papers in geography, science, and letters, 1743-1783
Item
Identifier: Coll-205/2/3 (Dc.1.59)
Scope and Contents
Extracts: some classes of herbs; Fundamenta Agroslographia (1781); Shell marle (1783); Plants growing on Inch Colm; Observable stars, with map of certain constellations (on reverse of disused accounts work); alchemy (for one Mr Mackenzie); balloon trips in France; Fortification (with drawing), from Gentleman's Magazine, 1743; Forsler's round-the-world trip, transcribed ca. 1780; Phlogisticated air, by Mr Scheele, transcribed 1782; What became of various academics by 1784; The downfall of...
Dates:
1743-1783
Papers of Florence Jewel Baillie, 1897-1969
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: BAI 2
Scope and Contents
The papers of Florence Jewel Baillie consist of:
- correspondence from John Baillie
- correpondence with the wider Fowler and Pearse families
- diaries
- general papers and correspondence
Dates:
1897-1969
Papers of John Baillie, 1900-1964
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: BAI 1
Scope and Contents
school and university notes; awards and achievements; lectures, addresses and broadcasts; sermons and prayers; manuscripts of published works; papers relating to the World Council of Churches, British Council of Churches, General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and other organisations; personal and professional correspondence
Dates:
1900-1964
Papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie, 1908-1961
Series
Identifier: BAI 7
Scope and Contents
The papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie consist of:
- articles, cuttings and ephemera
- career/employment resumés and references
- correspondence
- memorials and letters of condolence
Dates:
1908-1961
Scenes of Europe
Series
Identifier: Coll-1167/E
Scope and Contents
In 2020, there are only glass plate negatives and photographic prints within this series.
Dates:
1753-c 1985