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Anatomy

 Subject

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

Found in 115 Collections and/or Records:

Mountain Zebra, Stocking and Chestnut, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1053
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Mountain zebra's forelegs showing the stocking and chestnut.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Mouse Atlas Archive: Matthew H Kaufman collection of glass slides showing sections of mouse embryos at various stages of development

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1829
Content Description Collection of histological sections on glass slides of the mouse embryo at all stages of development created by Professor Matthew Kaufman between c. 1975-1990. Also includes two volumes for which the collection was used ('The Anatomical Basis of Mouse Development' and 'Kaufman's Atlas of Mouse Development Supplement - with coronal sections'); a file of supporting documents (an index to the embryos in each box and the identification of sections used in the Atlas); and prints of cross-sections...
Dates: Existence: Majority of material found within 1975-1990
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Multipurpose perfusion apparatus, October 1973

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/825
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1973.

Dates: October 1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Note about a crooked headed fish, June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/82
Scope and Contents

Note probably collected on Ìle/Islay about a crooked headed fish similar to a gurnet. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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

Note about a turbot or sturgeon, June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/87
Scope and Contents

Note about a turbot or sturgeon '3 or 4 f[ee]t long 2 1/2 broad no name' caught at Port na h-Abhainne/PortnahavenÌle/Islay.

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

Note about 'Cra-rionnach' or red mackerel, 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/153
Scope and Contents

Note about 'Cra-rionnach' or red mackerel which reads 'Bones of head hard scales sharp and prickly. Scales come off whole when boiled. When plentiful no herrings are got on the west coast'. Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about insects, June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/147
Scope and Contents

Note about insects that they are 'complicated'; that 'The gorgeous drag[on]fly being the bloodyiest (sic) thing in all creation'; that 'Cobhar na Cuthaig is an insect' and that 'Little fleas have lesser fleas upon their legs'.

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

Note about pouches on fish, June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/79
Scope and Contents

Note about pouches on fish collected on Ìle/Islay that 'Crag-dhu has pouch on each side large...Sporan faolin in Murlach [dogfish].' Text has been scored through as if transcribed alsewhere.

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

Note about shellfish and creature which eats shellfish, June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/177
Scope and Contents

Note about shellfish and creature which eats shellfish which reads 'An Grianan bet[ween] the Maorach – mor. A Chiochag thraghat [polypus] red on the rocks with pimples eats maorach.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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

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