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Trees

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

Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:

Note about William Ross's first poetic composition and accompanying quotation, 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/337
Scope and Contents

Note about William Ross's first poetic composition and accompanying quotation stating that he was 'storm stayed' on an island in Gairloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Siorramachd Ròis/Ross-shire] when he wrote the poem beginning 'Is mairg a thachair an Eilean'. The island was covered with aspen but none of the fisherman would use any object made out of aspen.

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

Note about yew and hazel, 29 August 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/72
Scope and Contents

Note about yew and hazel, stating that Glen Iur [Gleann Iubhair/Glen Ure, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] is full of yew, and that a hazel was taken from the garden to Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann] for the archers [Royal Company of Archers]. The word 'piollachadh' is given for 'lopping of trees'.

Dates: 29 August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note that it was 'Cailleach Lochlanach' who burned the woods on Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis, 8 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/13
Scope and Contents

Note which reads 'Tis that that it was one Cailleach Lochlanach [old Viking woman] who fried all the woods of Lews' Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis.

Dates: 8 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note which reads 'One solitary plane tree near Tai[gh] mor Phort charrain', September 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/76
Scope and Contents

Note which reads 'One solitary plane tree near Tai[gh] mor Phort charrain' [Taigh Mòr, Port a' Charrain, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

Dates: September 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 12 September 1890 to 1895

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1
Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael but also used by John Ewen MacRury. The front cover bears a sticker which reads 'Gaelic Notes 1894-5. (Collection of traditions, tales, etc. by Alexander Carmichael (?). Many pages cancelled, indicating publication.) [Carmichael Watson Collection]'. The flyleaf reads 'Gaelic Notes, 1894-5' and the rear flyleaf contains a jotting which reads 'Wishing Guidhe'. The beginning of the notebook contains field notes made by Carmichael in Uibhist a...
Dates: 12 September 1890 to 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Notebook No.254, August 1868-1 March 1869

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/254
Scope and Contents This dark red Notebook starts in London with Mary and Leonard Lyell, and documents travels in Pembrokeshire, Wales, with an index created by Arabella Buckley. Lyell studies submerged forests, beaches, caves and iron works making notes and sketches, and referencing experts as well as local guides. Several meetings 'with Darwin'. Final pages relate to Grindle Pit, Bury St Edmunds, with sections written by Buckley that appear to be dictated by Lyell. ...
Dates: August 1868-1 March 1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notes about evidence of trees and agricultural land subsumed by water, March 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/81
Scope and Contents Notes about evidence of trees and agricultural land subsumed by water, describing large tree roots embedded in peat at Rubhoisinis, Bearnary [Rubha Bhoisnis, Beàrnaraigh/Berneray], cut by Tasgal Macthasgail [MacAskill]; lobsters sheltering in the crevices of tree roots at 'Ruch [-] nis' Pabaigh/Pabbay; trees having fallen at Tao a bhaile-fo-thua [Rubh' a' Bhaile Fo Thuath, Pabaigh/Pabbay]; and how 'men now living (1873) saw corn growing where now land is seen only at low water between isle +...
Dates: March 1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Notes on vegetation, 21 May 1877

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/70
Scope and Contents

Notes on the vegetation on Beire-mhòr [A' Bheirbhe Mhòr, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] which includes blue hyacinth, mountain ash and a 'heath[er] isle about 50 y[a]rds long and 20 wide'.

Dates: 21 May 1877
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Old Para Rubber Tree, Henerat[h]goda, [Sri Lanka], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3225
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man in a white suit holding a pipe standing next to an old Para rubber tree that has been tapped using a herring bone pattern in Henerat[h]goda, [Sri Lanka] in the early 20th century.

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

One of the Large Cypress Trees in the Grove of Chapultepec, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1100
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two men standing in front of one of the large Cypress trees in the grove of Chapultepec [in Mexico City, Mexico] in the early 20th century.

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

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