University of Edinburgh -- staff
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
2 glass negatives & prints featuring Dr Clerk Ranken
Fonds — Folder EUA GD51
Identifier: EUA GD51
Content Description
Two glass negatives showing Clerk Ranken in a Chemistry laboratory, c1903, and in a group of students, c1905. Along with the negatives are two later prints of the same.
Dates:
1903-1905
Collection of 19th-century autograph letters assembled by the Rev. John Walker
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2103
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of c. 200 letters acquired by the Rev. John Walker (1855-1941), a Scottish-Australian autograph collector. The main fields of interest represented are geology, botany, theology, literature, academia, and politics. Names that feature particularly prominently include Walker's uncle John Stuart Blackie, Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh; William Garden Blaikie, Professor of Divinity at New College, Edinburgh; James Geikie, Professor of Geology at the...
Dates:
1792-1913
Letters relevant to the Round Table Club and referring to John Gray McKendrick, 1908
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1324
Identifier: Coll-1694
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of two letters.The first is dated Edinburgh, 27 June 1908, and is from "your old friends", the "other surviving members" of the Round Table Club, to "Dear McKendrick". It goes on: "thank you very heartily for your labour of love. You bring back very vividly those happy times, and make us young again. We are especially grateful to you for what you say of those who have got [sic] before us, and we again see and hear their friends faces and their songs and...
Dates:
1908
Material relating to John Dover Wilson, Regius Professor of English Literature
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1519
Scope and Contents
Collection contains:
1 x recipe book
1 x notebook: 'Ye monthly Brer', from January 1894
1 x bundle assorted postcards (11) send from John Dover Wilson to Dorothy Baldwin before their marriage in 1906, being illustrations of: Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen (2), Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Darwin, John Ruskin, Professor Huxley, John Burns, G. F. Watts, and cartoon...
Dates:
1905-1964
Mathematical archive of Professor Alexander Craig Aitken
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1529
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of mathematical mansucripts and the corrected manuscript, and correspondence around, the publication Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman. It also contains off-prints and publications by Aitken, papers and correspondence relating to Aitken's work at Edinburgh University and letters to and from academics, family and friends, as well as letters of condolence addressed to Mrs. Aitken. There is also a quantity of...
Dates:
1910-1995
Medals of Professor Kenneth M. Creer
Collection
Identifier: Coll-2016
Content Description
Medals and pins awarded to Professor Kenneth M. Creer in their original boxes.
John Adam Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union (1990) in a wooden box;
American Geophysical Union cufflink in a black velvet box (1990);
Freedom of the City of Grenoble medal in a blue box (1994);
Royal Astronomical Society medal (Gold, Geophysics, 1996) in a red...
Dates:
1990-1996
Papers of Dr Käte Silber
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2102
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of the papers of Dr Käte Silber, a Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh between 1963 and 1973, and a specialist on the Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827). It mostly includes some of Käte Silber's correspondence with Eduard Spranger and Fritz Bohnsack, as well as articles, pamphlets, typed documents, letters etc. relating to her life.
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Dates:
1963-2001; Original dates of copied letters: 1939-1952
Papers of Jacobus Louw Potter FRCP FACP Executive Dean Faculty of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, and Dr Elizabeth Mackay Potter
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1651
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Jacobus Louw Potter, and of Dr Elizabeth Mackay Potter, are comprised of:
1 x folder - correspondence, 1981-1987
1 x folder - correspondence, contracts and other material relating to film And so goodbye, 2003-2004
1 x folder - graduation material, programmes, seating plans, dinner menus etc - 1981-1987
2 x...
Dates:
1942-2007
Papers of Professor Gordon Donaldson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-78
Scope and Contents
The papers of Professor Gordon Donaldson within Gen. 1627-1645 consist of general and individual correspondence and correspondence with institutions and publishers. There is material and notes on churches, about crofters, emigration, genealogy, and the Northern Isles. There are lectures and notes; personal and family papers; photographs; and, press cuttings. There is manuscript material, typescript material, and proofs. These all cover the period 1935-1993.The collection also...
Dates:
1549-1993
Papers of Professor Sidney T. M. Newman
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1032
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: in Box 1, concertos of C. P. E. Bach (son of Johann Sebastian Bach), an opera The admiral's daughter by Dr. H. F. Henniker (1930) and a symphony in three movements, music and libretto to David Rizzio, and various pieces of music; in Box 2, assorted pieces of music and song, the Fantasia No.1 Mozart with music for violin I and II, viola, v.cello, c.bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, corno,...
Dates:
1920-1968