University of Edinburgh -- students
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:
Physicus medal of Cargill G. Knott, 1873-74
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1451
Scope and Contents
The item, a bronze medal, has an unmilled and uninscribed edge. On one side the medal features the University arms of the saltire, castle, book and thistle, and around the edge the Latin: SCOT.REG.EDIN.ACAD.JACOB.VI. On the other is inscribed PHYSICUS CARGILL G. KNOTT, with the year 1873-74 framed by laurel branches.
Dates:
1873-1874
Records of Masson Hall of Residence
Fonds
Identifier: EUA GD58
Scope and Contents
Minutes, accounts, details of residents/members and related records.
Dates:
1893-1967
Records relating to the Mechanics' Library and University Hall, Riddle's Court
Item — Volume Dk.1.4
Identifier: Coll-1841
Scope and Contents
A single volume in two parts. The first part relates to the buildings use as the Mechanics Library, the second relates to its period as University Hall. In the front is bound an architectural plan and two engravings of the buildings.Section I begins with a Preface based on extracts from Daniel Wilson, 'Edinburgh in Olden Time'. Bound in before the Preface is a two-sided illustration, one side titled "M'Morran Superintends his bigging". Thererafter follows a table of contents and then...
Dates:
1850s, 1890s
Research archive of John Martin concerning the History of Student Theatre at the University of Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1942
Scope and Contents
The fonds consists of the research archive of John Martin relating to his on-going project on student theatre, which aims to compile a history of student theatre in Edinburgh from 1850 to 1970. In order to understand the wider student context in which theatre groups had arisen, John Martin started to work on two "spin-off" projects to support his research: one on student numbers at the University of Edinburgh between 1836 and 1966, and a second one on student societies in Edinburgh University...
Dates:
2017-2021
Scrapbook of Edinburgh University student Ella MacGregor, 1920s
Item — Box CLX-A-345
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0181
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook/diary of Ella MacGregor, an Edinburgh University student in the 1920s. It contains handwritten autobiographical accounts and thoughts, cuttings of poems and songs, copies of photographs of people involved in the University's student life (for example, V. K. Mowat, joint editor of the Student 1923-24; John B. Colquhoun, President of the Union; Lilian M. Roger, President of Edinburgh University Unionist Association), of famous people who visited the University (G. K. Chesterton; Sybil...
Dates:
1920s
Speeches to Edinburgh University Graduates' Clubs in Manchester and Liverpool, Midlands, London and Birmingham, 1906
File
Identifier: Coll-11/C10
Scope and Contents
Speeches to Edinburgh University Graduates' Clubs in Manchester and Liverpool, Midlands, London (2 occasions) and Birmingham (speech had also been delivered to the Royal Medical Society in 1905).
Dates:
1906
Student group including Clerk Ranken, c1905
Item
Identifier: EUA GD51/2
Scope and Contents
This is assumed to be a group of Chemistry students. The doorway has been identified as one of those leading into the Reid Concert Hall (adjacent to the Medical School, where Chemistry was based). Clerk Ranken is in the front row, furthest left.
Dates:
c1905
Student notes on natural philosophy taken by George Dalgliesh
Collection — Box CLX-A-1677
Identifier: Coll-2012
Content Description
This notebook contains lectures on the works of Aristotle, dictated by Thomas Craufurd, Regent of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and taken down by student George Dalgliesh. The lectures cover the third and fourth years of Dalgliesh’s degree, and, besides logic and metaphysics, deal with scientific subjects such as physics, astronomy, and anatomy. The notes are embellished with humorous doodles.
Dates:
1660-1662
Student notes taken down by J. Cabbell of lectures by Alexander Monro primus, and John Rutherford
Collection
Identifier: Coll-1901
Scope and Contents
Notes of lectures on clinical medicine given by Prof. John Rutherford, 1755-1756, and notes of lectures on anatomy given by Alexander Monro primus, circa 1752-1755, taken by J. Cabbell.
Dates:
c 1752-1756
The Young Medals
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-540
Scope and Contents
The medals are the Edinburgh University class medals: geology and mineralogy, 1899-1900; practical geology and mineralogy, 1900-1901; practical botany, 1901 (Edinburgh School of Medicine); practical zoology, 1901-1902; and petrology, 1902. The collection also includes the British Association Medal, 1923, for scientific research in South Africa, and the Draper Medal of the Geological Society of South Africa, 1935.
Dates:
1899-1935