University of Edinburgh -- staff
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Letters relating to Materia Medica Department, University of Edinburgh
Fonds — Box Dk.7.27
Identifier: Coll-2218
Scope and Contents
Letters relating to the Edinburgh University Materia Medica department. Letters (3) relating to 1889, 1908, 1945. Also includes some quack adverts.
From W. Y. Prout to Professor Sir T. R. Fraser about poisoned arrows, 1 August 1889.
From C. Philips Frast to Mr. McAlpine about snake venom, 1 August 1908.
From W. C. Sillar to Professor J. H. Gaddum about...
Dates:
1889-1945
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
Memoirs of Nina MacKinnon at the Main Library 1987-2021, 2021
File
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0025
Scope and Contents
PowerPoint slides entitled "Nina's photos", and Word document entitled "Nina Mackinnon at the Main Library" containing the Memoirs of Nina MacKinnon at the Main Library from 1987 to 2021, presented at her last Metadata Team meeting on occasion of her retirement. She was asked by her manager Alasdair MacDonald to talk about her time in Main Library. Nina retired on the 14th of May 2021, after 34 years there. Her first post was library assistant to the Centre for African Studies collection;...
Dates:
2021
Newspaper clipping from the "Bulletin" newspaper, 28 April 1949
Item
Identifier: Coll-1581, vol. 2, no. 55
Scope and Contents
This is a newspaper clipping showing a press photograph after Alistair Sim's rectorial address. The clipping is from the "Bulletin" newspaper printed 28 April 1949.
Dates:
28 April 1949
Newspaper clipping showing press photos of a rectorial address, mid-20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-1581, vol. 2, no. 56
Scope and Contents
This is a newspaper clipping showing photographs of Alistair Sim's rectorial address and the subsequent "chairing".
Dates:
mid-20th century
Notes of Lectures on Materia Medica given by Professor Thomas Richard Fraser, taken down by Norman P. Walker
Fonds — Volume Dk.7.3
Identifier: Coll-2216
Scope and Contents
Lectures on materia medica given by Professor Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, taken down by Norman P. Walker, University of Edinburgh. Winter session 1882-1883.
Dates:
1882-1883
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