Testimonials
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Testament written 3 June 1936 by John Baillie (1886-1960), Professor of Divinity, in favour of Ursula Mary Niebuhr (1907-1997)
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1378
Scope and Contents
The manuscript testimonial (2-sided letter) dated 3 June 1936 and signed by Professor John Baillie was found alongside some more recent photocopies of other material in a book (unnamed in a lot of 19 titles) purchased by Edinburgh University Library. The testimonial talks of Mrs. Niebuhr's maturity of scholarship, the 'soundness of her judgement' and 'the quick intuitive character of her mind'. The other photocopies are: 1 letter from John Baillie to 'My dear Bishop' dated 29 May 1939, in which...
Dates:
1936-2012
Testimonials at the death of Daniel J. Cunningham, 1909
File
Identifier: Coll-11/A2
Scope and Contents
Testimonials on the death of Daniel John Cunningham from :
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Royal Dublin Society
University of Edinburgh (Senate, Council, Faculty of Medicine, Students' Representative Council, Postgraduate vacation course in medicine)
Royal Zoological Society of Ireland
Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland
Morrison's Academy, Crieff, Perthshire
Dates:
1909
Testimonials in favour of Ewart for various appointments, 1875-1882
File
Identifier: Coll-14/3/1
Scope and Contents
Contains testimonials for the positions of Curator of the Museum of University College London and the Chairs of Natural History at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, namely: original testimonials from D.R Haldane (1875), James Spence (1875), A.B Stirling (1875), P.D Handyside (1875), William R. Sanders (1875), J. Ely (1877), W. Sharpey (1877 and 1878) and two printed collections of testimonials in favour of Ewart for the Chairs of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen (1878)...
Dates:
1875-1882