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

Found in 905 Collections and/or Records:

Student notes on natural philosophy taken by George Dalgliesh

 Collection — Box CLX-A-1677
Identifier: Coll-2012
Content Description

This notebook contains lectures on the works of Aristotle, dictated by Thomas Craufurd, Regent of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and taken down by student George Dalgliesh. The lectures cover the third and fourth years of Dalgliesh’s degree, and, besides logic and metaphysics, deal with scientific subjects such as physics, astronomy, and anatomy. The notes are embellished with humorous doodles.

Dates: 1660-1662

Studies of 1/N dN/dt for Talara, c. 1964

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/F.4
Scope and Contents

The material consists of a file relating to studies of 1/N dN/dt for Talara. It includes some material in Edward Appleton’s hand.

Dates: c. 1964

'Studies of the F2 Layer of the Ionosphere II. The Sunspot-Cycle Variation of Ionisation in the F2 Layer', c. 1950

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.78
Scope and Contents 'Studies of the F2 Layer of the Ionosphere II. The Sunspot-Cycle Variation of Ionisation in the F2 Layer'. The material consists of a 16 page typescript draft with manuscript notes by Edward Appleton and Mrs Pritchard, and 1 page of comments in another hand expressing caution. Appleton published Part I of ‘Studies of the F2 Layer' in Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, Part I in 1950, but no Part II is listed...
Dates: c. 1950

'Study of Recurrence Tendencies in Ionospheric Storms', May 1958

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.115
Scope and Contents

'Study of Recurrence Tendencies in Ionospheric Storms'. 5 page typescript, dated 1958.

Dates: May 1958

Summarium nostra Astronomiae Phys: et Geom:, c1690

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [56(2)]
Scope and Contents

One-page summary of Gregory's major textbook.

Dates: c1690

'Summary of Edinburgh findings on the equatorial anomaly', November 1962

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.116
Scope and Contents

'Summary of Edinburgh findings on the equatorial anomaly'. 2 page typescript, dated November 1962.

Dates: November 1962

‘Summary of Reports on W. G. Y’, August 1926-December 1926

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.276
Scope and Contents

‘Summary of Reports on W. G. Y’. the material consists of a 14 page manuscript account of radio reception at various wavelengths, dated August-December 1926. Author unknown.

Dates: August 1926-December 1926

'Sunrise in the Ionospheric F Layer. Brief summary of results Summer 1963', 1963

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.119
Scope and Contents

'Sunrise in the Ionospheric F Layer. Brief summary of results Summer 1963'. 8 page typescript, with a little accompanying data from Mrs. Turnbull.

Dates: 1963

'Sunspot-Cycle Study of Abinger γ Variations', January 1963

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.118
Scope and Contents

'Sunspot-Cycle Study of Abinger γ Variations'. 1 page typescript, dated January 1963.

Dates: January 1963

Sunspot numbers and data, c. 1949

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/F.57
Scope and Contents

The material consists of sunspot numbers and data, some dated 1949.

Dates: c. 1949