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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:

Notes on Examinations for the Falconer Fellowship, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-74/5/3
Scope and Contents

Notes about the two day oral and written examination in Geology and Paleontology for the Falconer Fellowship which was awarded to RA Lundie. Under the Deed of Foundation aspects of Zoology and Botany were also touched upon.

Dates: late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Miscellaneous

Papers and slides of Rev. George Hastie, Edinburgh University former student

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1946
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of the lectures notes, photographs and slides of Rev. George Hastie, student at the University of Edinburg in the late 1960s. The lecture notes were taken by Hastie for his MA course at Edinburgh Univertsity between 1967 and 1970. The slides show photographs taken by Hastie in 1966, 1967 and 1968. Also includes a rectorial election leaflet entitled 'The Making of a Rector', printed for the Tom Hutton Campaign in 1968.1. The lecture notes include a complete set...
Dates: 1966-1970
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers in geography, science, and letters, 1743-1783

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Identifier: Coll-205/2/3 (Dc.1.59)
Scope and Contents Extracts: some classes of herbs; Fundamenta Agroslographia (1781); Shell marle (1783); Plants growing on Inch Colm; Observable stars, with map of certain constellations (on reverse of disused accounts work); alchemy (for one Mr Mackenzie); balloon trips in France; Fortification (with drawing), from Gentleman's Magazine, 1743; Forsler's round-the-world trip, transcribed ca. 1780; Phlogisticated air, by Mr Scheele, transcribed 1782; What became of various academics by 1784; The downfall of...
Dates: 1743-1783
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Dr. John Walker / Papers on History, Geography, Science, Natural History, Parish Management and other matters

Papers of Dr. John Walker

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-205
Scope and Contents

[to be completed]

Dates: 1731-1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Professor Peter Hadland Davis

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-645
Scope and Contents The unsorted material is composed of: a catalogue and book on Wemyss ware (pottery); a plaque to Davis from Turkey in gratitude for hisFlora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands; childhood travel notes; certificate of merit from the Republic of Turkey in its 50th Anniversary year, and in recognition forFlora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands; estate accounts; wartime correspondence; material relating to his appointment to Chair; old passports; and, correspondence with Dwight Ripley and...
Dates: 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Professor Robert Brown

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-648
Scope and Contents The unsorted material is composed of: circa 90 off-prints articles from botany journals; spring-file containingThe effect of the relative length of the light period on the growth of the cucumber; correspondence; off-prints; 3 volumes notebooks with notes and calculations; list of publications by M. M. Yeoman; 5 files containing unfinished manuscripts ofPlant growth; miscellaneous files with drawings, notes, and photographs; and wooden box of slides and an envelope containing broken slides....
Dates: 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-8
Scope and Contents

The papers of Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour consist of material relating to work on the flora of Socotra, 1883; letters; class tickets from 1871 and into the mid-1870s; notebook; notes; lecture notes; University of Glasgow class catalogues; material relating to the University of Edinburgh Commission of 1858, and its Reports on Botany, and Botany in the Arts Curriculum; material on the Universities Scotland Bill; and, material on botany excursions.

Dates: circa 1870-1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Proof copy of article on 'The Geological Influences which have Affected the Course of British History', 1881

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Identifier: Coll-74/8/4
Scope and Contents First proof copy of an article by Sir Archibald Geikie on 'The Geological Influences which have Affected the Course of British History' from printers Clay, Sons and Taylor, for Macmillan the publisher in 1881. This looked at ancient peoples and legendary figures, puting them in the context of the evolution of the natural world. Including elements such as the impact of the devlopment of commerce and the move from an agricultural to an urban industrial society, Sir Archibald Geikie mapped them...
Dates: 1881
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Publication proofs and lecture syllabuses

Quotation about sea-pink and scurvy-grass, c1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/64
Scope and Contents

Quotation about sea-pink and scurvy-grass, that they are 'witnesses of cosmical change that the summits of the highest hill in Scotland were once islands' taken from MacMillan's Magazine.

Dates: c1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Rhododendron, 28 July 1862

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Identifier: Coll-1619/25
Scope and Contents

Another copy of no.23, done on white paper annonated "28 July 1862 Sach Pass-Chamba Prostate stem of Rhododendron campanulatum from the immense weight of snow 12, 600ft".

Dates: 28 July 1862
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn

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