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Botany

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from B.L Seawell, 07 October 1901

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/24
Scope and Contents

Seawell, a former pupil of Ewart's, writes as a teacher of biology at a State Normal School in Warrensburg, Missouri, where he has recently been conducting general botany and zoology research. In particular he has been investigating the ecological relations of the life-forms of a series of small freshwater lakes in the area. He would like to know how he might go about studying for the degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Edinburgh.

Dates: 07 October 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1901

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Malcolm Farquharson, 07 May 1902

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/33
Scope and Contents

Farquharson asks Ewart what should be done with the balance left from paying the MacGillivray Memorial Fund. He proposes expending it on the Class of Botany at the University of Edinburgh in some way.

Dates: 07 May 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Madras nature print of Phyllanthus sp., 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/23
Scope and Contents

Madras nature print of Phyllanthus sp.

Dates: 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn

Manuscript on Chinese botany entitled "Synonymie d'histoire naturelle Chinoise" by Joseph-Marie Callery

 Item — Box CLX-A-1593
Identifier: Coll-1999
Content Description This is a manuscript on Chinese botany entitled "Synonymie d'histoire naturelle Chinoise", produced by Joseph-Marie Callery in the 1840s and never published. In this manuscript Callery discusses numerous genera, species and varieties of native plants found in Macau and Canton, many of which were unknown in Europe at the time. After giving their Latin and Chinese names, he describes their physical characteristics, habitat, their industrial, medicinal and culinary uses, details his own...
Dates: 1840s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Material relating to John Lowe

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1502
Scope and Contents A bound collection of pamphlets and off-prints, mostly on botanical subjects, which contain working notes of John Lowe and some watercolours which may be his too. There is a MS table of contents which lists nearly all the items but not in the order they are bound. The MS additions include: details of dated sightings, with place, to 'Bennett Notes on Norfolk plants'; and, MS notes of commentaries on the works. There is an autograph letter, 10 December 1898, from H.E. Brown of the...
Dates: 1856-1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Minutes, 12 January 1808-16 April 1858

 Series
Identifier: Coll-206/1
Scope and Contents
  1. details of the constitution of the society
  2. minutes concerning the scientific papers read at society meetings
  3. minutes concerning membership applications and acceptances by the society
  4. minutes concerning business matters of the society
Dates: 12 January 1808-16 April 1858
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the Wernerian Natural History Society

Ms lecture notes on the 'Plant and its Food' by Stevenson Macadam (1829-1901), Lecturer Professor of Chemistry, Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1669
Scope and Contents

Ms botanical lecture notes with diagram entitled The plant and its food by Stevenson Macadam. octo, 7pp. 'Britannia' watermarks.

Dates: 1855-1859
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', late 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/9/1
Scope and Contents Notes for 6 lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', encompasing a wide variety of related subjects. Sir Archibald Geike looked at various geological periods and how both the areas occupied by land and water changed over time. He looked at the creation of many geological formations, at the materials they were composed of and the processes involved, including the infleunce of different elements within the natural world. He used as examples numerous locations, mostly within the British Isles but...
Dates: late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Lecture notes

Notes of botany lectures given by Daniel Rutherford, taken down by person unknown

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1929
Scope and Contents

Red notebook containing notes taken at Dr Rutherford's botanical lectures in May 1790.

Dates: May 1790
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of lectures given by Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, taken down by James R. Watson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1953
Scope and Contents

One volume containing notes of botany lectures given by Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, taken down by James R Watson at the University of Edinburgh in 1890.

Dates: 1890
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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