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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:

Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1773

 Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/6 (Dc.2.34)
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of plant and insect species (approximately 212 handwritten pages).

Dates: 1773

Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1774

 Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/7 (Dc.2.35)
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of plant and insect species (approximately 202 handwritten pages).

Dates: 1774

Descriptions of plant species, 1769

 Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/2 (Dc.2.30)
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of new and extant species of plants, with notes about other people's collections (approximately 192 handwritten pages).

Dates: 1769

Descriptions of plants, insects, and minerals, 1766

 Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/1 (Dc.2.29)
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of new and extant species of plants, mostly, with a few insects and minerals as well (approximately 176 handwritten pages).

Dates: 1766

Downey and Yellow Oat Grass, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1419
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a sample of both Downey Oat Grass, Avena Pubescens, and Yellow Oat Grass, Avena Flavescens,and a graph showing both plants growth over different plots of land.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Dry-Land Lucerne at Vereeniging, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/660
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two men 'looking for modules' which contain nitrogen-fixing germs, 'on the roots of lucerne at Vereeniging in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Engraving with plants and figures, 17th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/2
Scope and Contents

17th century engraving with plants and figures - Abelmosch (= Abelmoschus), Semsen (= Sesamum), Sambak (= Jasminum): source unkown.

Dates: 17th century

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...
Dates: 1887

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1868 to 16 June 1876

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing primarily songs and stories collected in Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, Barraigh/Barra, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis. The main informants are Roderick MacNeil or Ruairidh an Rùma from Mingulay and Penelope MacLellan of Ormacleit/Ormaclete. The bulk of the material from MacNeil relates to the southernmost islands of the Hebrides and covers topics such as bird-fowling, the island way of life, place-names,...
Dates: c1868 to 16 June 1876

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108
Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing songs, poems, tales, names, vocabulary and expressions collected in the Outer Hebrides [Na h-Eileanan an Iar]. The first part of the volume contains transcriptions taken as Carmichael listened to informants in 1877 while the second part appears to be copies of previous transcriptions of material collected by Carmichael and Rev Malcolm MacPhail in 1874 and written into the notebook in 1891. Amongst the material is a version of the lament...
Dates: 1874, 1877 and 1891