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Geneva, Switzerland

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Data and reports from observatories and stations at multiple locations, 1949-1965

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/G.23
Scope and Contents

The material consists of a box of data and reports from observatories and stations from the following locations: Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Berne, Cape of Good Hope, Clyde, Delhi, France (Fribourg, Dakar), Freiburg, Geneva, Hamburg, Japan, Kerguelen. The first page is markked 'Mrs T' [Turnbull]. It is dated 1949-1965.

Dates: 1949-1965
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Reports and printed matter / Data and reports from observatories and stations

Manuscript copy of ‘Livre des Anglais’

 Fonds
Identifier: MS GEN 2
Scope and Contents Copie du Livre des Anglais [sic]. Manuscript Déposé aux Archives de Genève. [copy of the 'book of the English'. Manuscript deposited with the Archives of Geneva]. Covers the years 1555-1560 when John Knox was a member of the English church in Geneva, listing members of the congregation, ministers, child baptisms, marriages and funerals.Manuscript copy of the original, made 14 - 19 May 1856 and certified by Ad. C. Grivel, Archivist. The copy was comissioned by a Mr. Lawrence of...
Dates: 1856; Other: 1555-1560
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Notebook No.46, 24 July 1832 - 26 August 1832

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 2: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/46
Scope and Contents This brown leather notebook contains sketches, descriptions, identifications, aide de memoires in pencil and ink. The front cover reads July 1832, and the index is glued to the back cover. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from digital surrogates using the platform Transkribus. When known, Lyell's abbreviations and...
Dates: 24 July 1832 - 26 August 1832
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Plan of Geneva, 1841

 Item — Openshelf 5.21/PC6/1: Series Coll-1167/A
Identifier: Coll-1167/A/5/25
Scope and Contents

Plan of Geneva showing layout, small insert in bottom left of plan showing view of Geneva from the south.

Dates: 1841
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / The Cities and Town Planning Exhibitions / Renaissance Cities