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University of Edinburgh -- students

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:

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;...
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

University cycling and rugby cups awarded to Ian McGregor Reith Scroggie MB ChB (Edin.1944) in 1940 and 1941, and group photograph 1941

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1735
Scope and Contents 2 x University cups (larger cup being Ramsay Lodge, Annual TT, awarded 1940 and 1941, cycling; and, smaller Irish Cup 1941, rugby).1 x group photograph showing participants in Ramsay Lodge, Irish Cup, 1941, rugby, including I. M. R. Scroggie (standing back row 2nd from left).The larger cup (inscribed Ramsay Lodge, Annual TT) was made by J. & D. Meek, Edinburgh. It is also inscribed with numerous names of winners from 1920 to 1943. No race was run in 1924....
Dates: 1920-1943

University of Edinburgh Boat Club

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: EUA GD33
Scope and Contents - 4 minute books: 1898-1912, 1912-1936, 1936-53 and 1953-61.- Log books, Vols. 2 & 3: May 1919 - June 1920 and June 1920 - May 1921.- One folder of correspondence and reports of use of Union Canal by Men's and Women's Boat Clubs (EUBC and EUWBC), 1953-1960 (old reference: Da.65).- Additional material donated in 1999 (EUA-Acc-1999-021): one envelope containing photographs (named), newspaper cuttings, programmes 1930s, and 1999 Edinburgh & Glasgow...
Dates: 1898-1989

US Veterans Admin. (G.I. Bill), 1930-1961

 Series — Box EUA-A-871
Identifier: EUA IN1 ADS/STA/22

Volume of student lecture notes entitled "Heads of Dr. Ferguson's Lectures 1760", 1760

 Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0060
Scope and Contents

This item is a volume of student lecture notes entitled "Heads of Dr. Ferguson's Lectures 1760", 44-page long, apparently by a student who attended Adam Ferguson's lectures at the University of Edinburgh. As the title suggests, these are the "heads" or outlines of the course, but with a fair bit of detail included. The lectures concern mankind in its divisions, social actions, forms of government, etc.

Dates: 1760