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Anatomy

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

Found in 91 Collections and/or Records:

Note about the animal 'Neas' [weasel] on An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye, June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/156
Scope and Contents

Note about the animal 'Neas' [weasel] on An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye describing it as all white 'except point of tail which is black with hair like tail of a cow'.

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note about the fish 'siolag' [sand-eel], June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/84
Scope and Contents

Note about the fish 'siolag' [sand-eel] probably collected on Ìle/Islay that it has a long mouth of about eight or nine inches in circumference.

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note describing the wild cat, June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/198
Scope and Contents

Note describing the wild cat which reads 'The old wild cat was not so low in the leg + those in the museu[m] bigger in body head + skin striped like tiger'.

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note of a bird sighting, 1871

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/31
Scope and Contents

Note of a bird sighting collected from Mal[colm] Macaulay at Allt Barra [Barraigh/Isle of Barra]. The bird is described as 'Body pure white size of a Buna bhuachaille' [great northern diver] and it was seen in the spring of 1870 and 1871. The text has been scored through in ink as if to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note of an unusual bird sighting, 1871

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/30
Scope and Contents

Note of an unusual bird sighting collected from Duncan Sinclair, telling how at the end of July or beginning of August 1871 he had seen a bird with 'red wings & white body bill like a duck size about a gannet or less' and has never seen it before or since. The text has been scored through in ink as if to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note which reads 'Broc rua is gollach 'thin' + long in nose', June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/199
Scope and Contents

Note which reads 'Broc rua[dh] is gollach 'thin' + long in nose'.

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Notebook No.3, 1826- 1826

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 1: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/3
Scope and Contents This notebook is written primarily in ink. Subjects include scholarship and university arrangements in other nations, religion, and notes on recent geological discoveries. on page 121 there is a list of ch[apters], indexed as 'essays' indicating Lyell's notes on his proposed book. Three pages are missing. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook,...
Dates: 1826- 1826
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notes about fish and snakes, 24 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/119
Scope and Contents

Notes about fish and snakes collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann] including that the skate has no roe, snakes have eggs like hens and the dogfish has no ribs, only a spine. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 24 June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Notice for a meeting of the Edinburgh Hunterian Medical Society, 3 November 1841

 Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0035
Scope and Contents A rare notice announcing the resuming of meetings of the Edinburgh Hunterian Medical Society. It advertises the lectures of Dr. Lonsdale, Dr. Bates (on epilepsy) and Dr. Mackay (on dystentery) at a meeting of the 1841 Edinburgh Hunterian Medical Society, held at Societies' Hall at Edinburgh University on the 3rd of November 1841.The handbill reads as follows: "This society will resume its meetings on Wednesday by the 10th November 1841. After an address from the President, an...
Dates: 3 November 1841
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Packet labelled "Lecture notes. Lecture III. Applied Anatomy. Embryonic Membranes and Placenta" containing loose pages of notes on this subject and on "Clavicular Joints", n.d.

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Identifier: Coll-11/B7
Scope and Contents

7. Packet labelled "Lecture Notes. Lecture III. Applied Anatomy. Embryonic Membranes and Placenta." containing loose pages of notes on this subject and on "Clavicular joints".

Dates: n.d.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham / Notebooks and working papers

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