Experiments
Found in 134 Collections and/or Records:
1956 diary containing notes containing experiment notes from 1957, April-September 1957
Diary contains notes relating to population experiments on heterozygotes.
Cattle Feeding Tables, 1870s-1930s
Table of information on feeding experiments with cattle over eighteen months old at Cockle Park between 1907-1908. It indicates the rations per head daily during the four month trial and the different types of feeds used to monitor the cows live weight.
Cattle Feeding Tables, 1870s-1930s
Table of information on feeding experiments with cattle just over six months old at Cockle Park between 1907-1908. It indicates the rations per head daily during the four month trial and the different types of feeds used to monitor the cows live weight.
Copy of a letter (incomplete) to the Moray Bequest from James Cossar Ewart, 24 November 1898
Ewart requests financial aid from the Trust to continue his 'Penicuik experiments'. He details all the grants he has thus far received and itemises his expenditure.
The end of the letter is not present.
Copy of a letter to Sir William [Turner] from James Cossar Ewart, 10 May 1912
Ewart asks Turner whether the University Court would consider appointing a committee to investigate the question of providing facilities for animal breeding experiments along the lines of the work being carried out by Darbishire. He provides annual costings for the experiments at Fairslacks, and mentions that the Farm Committee of the East of Scotland College of Agriculture has asked Ewart on what terms he should be prepared to hand over the farm to them for a year.
Copy of a minute from the Edinburgh University and College of Agriculture Joint Committee on Research in Animal Breeding, 12 June 1914
Cross-Section Chests Cattle, 1870s-1930s
Illustration of cross-sections of three breeds of cattle's chests, a Hereford, a Shorthorn and a Galloway to demonstrate the size and shape differences. Handwritten notes describe the findings beneath the image.
Data and papers relating to experiments, 1956-1998
Contains data from experiments with antigens of Paramecium aurelia, population experiments with Paramecium, supernatants, hybridorms and cloning, mating induction with Euplotes and data relating to work with Sodsri Thaithong et al on pyrimethamine and Plasmodium falciparum, and a collection of lantern slide negatives.
Draft letter by Joseph Black on smelting, c1783
Draft letter by Joseph Black with an account of George Cottrel's experiment in smelting iron by an air furnace.
Draft letter to Sir Thomas Hudson-Beare from Charles Mackinnon Douglas, 04 June 1912
Douglas writes in favour of Ewart's farm at Fairslacks as a suitable place for breeding experiments. He also highlights the distinction between a demonstration farm for the instruction of farmers, and an experimental farm designed to afford normal conditions in which investigation can be carried out. He also states that he sees no reason why Jersey cows should not be kept in good health at Fairslacks.