Biography
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 403 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence: Joseph Wilson Lowry to HR Mill, 1839-1909
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/14
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence: Joseph Wilson Lowry to HR Mill sub-series consists of:
- 35 letters, alphabetically arranged (1839-1909)
Dates:
1839-1909
Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Canadian geologists, 1872-1900
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/13/4
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Canadian geologists sub-series consists of:
- 50 letters, alphabetically arranged (1872-1900)
Dates:
1872-1900
Correspondence of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1827-1871
Series
Identifier: Coll-74/10
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison series consists of:
letters from Murchison to his wife, 1854 and 1857
miscellaneous correspondence and notes (including letters to Sir Archibald Geikie) 1831-1871
correspondence relating to Murchison's dispute with Adam Sedgwick regarding Silurian classification 1838 and 1852-1866
assorted correspondence,...
Dates:
1827-1871
Correspondence: Sir Arthur William Rücker to James Smith, 1863-1900
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/19
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence: Sir Arthur William Rücker to James Smith sub-series consists of:
- 34 letters, alphabetically arranged (1863/1900)
Dates:
1863-1900
Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: FW Egan to John Evans, 1866-1900
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/16
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: FW Egan to John Evans sub-series consists of:
2 letters from FW Egan (1897-1900)
5 letters from Sir Philip De Malpas Grey Egerton (1871-1875)
4 letters from the Earl of Enniskillen (1884-1896)
9 letters from Robert Etheridge snr. (1869-1879)
2 letters from Robert Etheridge jnr. (1872-1873)
...
Dates:
1866-1900
Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Robert Harkness to Francis John Haverfield, 1872-1915
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/22
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Robert Harkness to Francis John Haverfield sub-series consists of:
- 18 letters, alphabetically arranged (1872-1915)
Dates:
1872-1915
'Dr Andrew Duncan', 20th century
Item
Identifier: LHB7/11/28
Scope and Contents
'Dr Andrew Duncan in 1797'. Printed caption for portrait, mounted on two pieces of card. Some biographical information.
Dates:
20th century
Dr Joseph Black: A Centenary Memorial Sketch, 1899
Item
Identifier: Coll-16/XIII
Scope and Contents
Newscutting (09 December 1899) of an article written by Leonard Dobbin for The Chemist and Druggist, ( 09 December 1899) to mark the centenary of Black's death.
Dates:
1899
Extract of a diary written by Alexander Carmichael including part of a journey from Uibhist/Uist [to Edinburgh], 6 January 1872 to 10 January 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/93
Scope and Contents
Extract of a diary written by Alexander Carmichael including part of a journey from Uibhist/Uist towards Edinburgh. In it, Carmichael is pining for his pregnant wife Mary, who is in Edinburgh and is anxious about her health. It is clear that there has been a lack of correspondence between them causing each of them distress 'No letter no watch. God grant that she is well. Oh Mary Mary if you knew my suffer[in]g you would not thus treat me...God grant y[ou]r safe arriv[al] home my darling wife -...
Dates:
6 January 1872 to 10 January 1872
Family history and story about Clanvurich Staoligeary and accompanying verse, 29 October 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/104
Scope and Contents
Family history and story about Clanvurich [Clann Mhuirich] Staoligeary [Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] probably collected from Angus Currie, pauper, Iocar [Ìochdar] describing the different lands held by different generations of the clan up until they lost Stadhlaigearraidh as the seventeenth generation to have lived there over three hundred and sixty years. The name of the last member of the clan to hold it was Niall mac Lachlain ioc Neill ioc Dhonil [Niall mac...
Dates:
29 October 1872