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Plants

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

Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:

Sweet Vernal Grass - Anthoxathum Odoratum, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1408
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a sample of Sweet Vernal grass, Anthoxathum odoratum, and a graph showing the plant's growth over different plots of land.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1865-1886

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7
Scope and Contents Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing mainly Fenian songs and cattle charms. Most of the charms relate to cattle and working in the dairy and so are recited for the protection and healing of cattle, although there are some charms for protecting and healing people as well. A number of the charms include the use of medicinal plants, for which there is additional vocabulary. Carmichael also includes charms and customs for predicting marriage partners. Almost all of...
Dates: 1865-1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1885

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87
Scope and Contents Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing material collected between October 1867 and December 1885. The material dated from 1883 to 1885 was probably written down at source. The notebook is marked as 'No IV' and the inside cover gives his address as 30 Royal Circus, Edinburgh [Dun Eideann] and the date as 16 November 1883. The material transcribed and collected in this notebook includes love songs, religious songs, waulking songs and songs relating to cattle. Much...
Dates: 1883 to 1885
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Turn waste to profit (2), November 1974

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/863
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1974.

Dates: November 1974
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Two cures for diarrhoea, March 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/66
Scope and Contents

Two cures for diarrhoea noted as being wine made from sloes, which is also an astringent, and a 'decoction of the root of' an unnamed plant whcih is common on the mainland but not on the islands [Na h-Eileanan Siar/Western Isles].

Dates: March 1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

[Vascular Tissue in Plants], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2608
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a cross-section of vascular tissue in plants with particular parts hand-labelled, i.e. 'bast', 'liber', etc.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Vocabulary for plants connected with charms and remedies, 1885

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/60
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary for plants connected with charms and remedies including 'Bearnan-Brìde' (dandelion) and 'Lus na fala' (sundew).

Dates: 1885
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary for wild garlic and quote, August 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/107
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary for 'wild garlic' being 'creamh nam fiadh' and quote which reads 'An [lin] aig an t seana-bhean san t iasg meamh aig a chloinn'.

Dates: August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary list containing six words, c1892

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/75
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary list containing six words viz: Carran [plant], Caigeal [creek], Geiltean [fish gills], Tothan [moss], Sgeot [recess] and Ocrann [an eighth of a peck].

Dates: c1892
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary note for 'Bun-dearg' and 'Bun-dubh' and accompanying placename note for 'Beinn Chinndearg', 22 August 1903

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/15
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary and placename notes probably collected from Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, for 'Bun-dearg' and 'Bun-dubh' both 'Cut fern clalk for thatch' and accompanying place-name note for 'Beinn Chinndearg' [possibly Maol Chinn Dearg], which is noted as being 'ab[ou]t 16 miles along the road side.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 22 August 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

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