University of Edinburgh -- Staff
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
Framed portrait of Charles H. Stewart, Secretary to the University, after 1978
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0010
Scope and Contents
One framed black-and-white portrait of Charles H. Stewart, Secretary to the University 1948-1978.
Dates:
after 1978
Lectures of James MacKinnon (1860-1945), Professor of Ecclesiastical history, University of Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: MS MCK 5
Scope and Contents
Notes on lectures delivered by Prof. James MacKinnon, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, during University of Edinburgh session 1908-1909. Volume I only.Part I: Origins of the Reformation (84 numbered pages, final 16 pages are blank).Part II: Progress of the Reformation (74 unnumbered pages, with infrequent blanks)Part III: Continuation of Calvin's Theories. (71 numbered pages).Part III [distinct from previous, reason for duplicated numbering...
Dates:
1908-1909
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters of John Wilson ("Christopher North"), Andrew Wilson, and Alexander Blair
Fonds — Volume Dk.3.48
Identifier: Coll-2179
Scope and Contents
Three letters of John Wilson ("Christopher North") to Robert Findlay, also a letter of Andrew Wilson, his brother, and six letters of Alexander Blair to Findlay, about J. Wilson's life at Oxford, etc. 1804-1807.
Dates:
1804-1807
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