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Found in 908 Collections and/or Records:

Drafts, figures, graphs, etc. for paper on thunderstorms, no date but c. 1930-1931

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.14
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Drafts, figures, graphs, etc. for paper on thunderstorms, no author and no date but c. 1930-1931. The material is not in Edward Appleton's hand

Dates: no date but c. 1930-1931
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Atmospherics / Notes and Drafts

Drafts for 2 slide lectures, c. 1930 and no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.7
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Drafts for 2 slide lectures: lecture (perhaps for Royal Institution discourse) on short-wave discoveries of Störmer, Hals, etc., incomplete, no date, c. 1930; and lecture on early television, no date.

Dates: c. 1930 and no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications

Drafts for paper by Appleton, Lyon and Pritchard, 'Some anomalies in the E-layer of the Ionosphere', 1955

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.48
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Drafts for paper by Appleton, Lyon and Pritchard, 'Some anomalies in the E-layer of the Ionosphere'. Typescript. The material consists of: 'Draft lay-out', 5 pages; Introduction and text, 5 pages plus 40 pages; and concluding summary of results, dated October 1955, 3 pages.

Dates: 1955
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / E layer / Drafts for papers and research notes on collaborative work by Edward Appleton on E layer with A. J. Lyon and A. G. Pritchard

Drafts for papers and research notes on collaborative work by Edward Appleton on E layer with A. J. Lyon and A. G. Pritchard, 1954-1965

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.46-C.50
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Drafts for papers and research notes on collaborative work by Edward Appleton on E-layer with A. J. Lyon and A. G. Pritchard, dated 1954-1965.

Dates: 1954-1965
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / E layer

Drafts for papers on absorption, no date and 1948

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.6
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Drafts for papers on absorption. The material consists of short sequences only, no date. Also included is a 1 page note, ‘Measurements of Oblique-Incidence Absorption’, by G.McK. Allcock, 1948.

Dates: no date and 1948
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Absorption

Drafts for papers, or sections of papers, on ionospheric storms, no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.416
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The material consists of drafts for papers, or sections of papers by Edward Appleton, on ionospheric storms. Some of the material is paginated.

Dates: no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Additional Material / Ionospheric Storms / Edward Appleton's notes and drafts

Drafts, notes, headings, references, anecdotes, etc. for Edward Appleton’s speeches, c. 1920-1965

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.66
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The material consists of drafts, notes, headings, references, anecdotes, etc. for Edward Appleton’s speeches on subjects including science, education, government, etc

Dates: c. 1920-1965
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications

Dubitationes de Actu 1692, 1692-1694

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [80]
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A page of what appears to be Gregory's thoughts on the legality of his interrogation pursuant to (possibly) the 1690 Act for the Visitation of Universities. On the reverse is a 1694 jotting on pitches and chords in pipes of particular dimensions.

Dates: 1692-1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Duplicated material, committee papers, etc. circulated by the Royal Society, 1957

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.377
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Duplicated material, committee papers, etc. circulated by the Royal Society. It mainly consists of papers for British National Committee for I.G.Y. [International Geophysical Year] and its Artificial Satellite Sub-Committee, and the Advisory Committee on Publications. It includes programme of Discussion Meeting, 29 November 1957, on 'Observations of the Russian artificial earth satellites and their analysis'.

Dates: 1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / U.R.S.I [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale/International Union of Radio Science]

Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art Syllabus of Lectures, 1867-1868

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Identifier: Coll-74/8/1
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Syllabus for a series of lectures given by 5 scientists at the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art during 1867-1868. They were: Sir Lyon Playfair (Chemistry), George James Allman (Natural History), Sir Archibald Geikie (Geology), Edward Sang (Natural Philosophy), and John Hutton Balfour (Botany).

Dates: 1867-1868
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Publication proofs and lecture syllabuses