Photographs

Material relating to Professor George Chrystal

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-1491

Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: 1 x letter from Professor George Chrystal to the Rt. Hon. The Prime Minister [Herbert Henry Asquith, 1908-1916] from 5 Belgrave Crescent, Edinburgh, 12 June 1911. The letter, in effect turns down the honour of a knighthood 'on the occasion of His Majesty's approaching Coronation'. He was, in the first place, 'at this moment suffering from the effects of severe illness' and it would be several months before he could 'appear in London or take part in...

Dates: 1890-1911

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Material relating to the editing of 'Crisis of the democratic intellect', by George Elder Davie

Collection — Box CLX-A-1555, Folder: Sc-Acc-2016-0189

Identifier: Coll-1792

Content Description

The collection relates to the editing of "Crisis of the democratic intellect", and includes manuscript and typescript, photographs, and promotional material.

Dates: 1980-1986

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Material relating to the research and interests of Matthew H. Kaufman

Fonds — Box CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1808 / SC-Acc-2016-0196

Identifier: Coll-1808

Content Description

The collection of largely off-print and other typescript material, and photographs... is composed of:

1 x folder - photographs of mouse embryos

1 x folder - ts and off-print material on phrenology

1 x folder - off-print material on medical history

1 x folder - off-print material on the mouse embryo

1 x folder - off-print material on other science

Dates: 1990-2006

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections