Natural History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Papers in Natural History, 1780s
Item
Identifier: Coll 205/1 (Dc.1.18)
Scope and Contents
'Natural History of the Inhabitants of the Highlands, Book 2, with a glossary. 'Collection of Animals Brought from China an. 1787, by Mr Somerville Wilson, Surgeon of the Lord North Indiaman.' A 1789 museum inventory. Economic evaluation of proposed navigation between the Murray Forth and the Sound of Mull. Addendum to the essay on peat. Tables of mineral genera. Lists of natural history students in Edinburgh from 1782 (approximately 100 mostly handwritten pages of text and tables).
Dates:
1780s
Papers of Dr. John Walker
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-205
Scope and Contents
[to be completed]
Dates:
1731-1803
Papers of Joseph Black and family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-16
Scope and Contents
5 boxes of correspondence between himself and a variety of individuals (including James Watt, Prince Paul Dashkov, John Robison) and on a variety of subjects: linen bleaching, use of lime water, assays of ores, civic water supply, mineralogical specimens, absorption of heat etc
1 box of family letters between Black, his father and his brothers Samuel, George and Thomas
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Dates:
1746-1799