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Obituaries

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

Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:

Ian Dunn - In Tribute, Apr 1998

 piece
Identifier: GD61/11/2/2/53/11
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: Apr 1998
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Information Resources / Press Cuttings / Press Cuttings / Gay Scotland Issue 126

'Inscriptio Sepulchri - Al. Bruce' [Grave inscription]

 Fonds
Identifier: MS SKI
Dates: Late 19th century to early 20th century
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Letter from the Academy of Medical Sciences to Ian Wilmut requesting Wilmut to provide an obituary notice of John Clark, 05 October 2004

 Item — Box CLX-A-1490: Series Coll-1320/1; Series Coll-1320/2
Identifier: Coll-1320/1/4/6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains letters sent to Ian Wilmut from members of the public and from various organisations, letters of congratulation on Wilmut receiving the OBE, and discs relating to Ian Wilmut's email account.

Dates: 05 October 2004
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Ian Wilmut / Correspondence / Letters to Ian Wilmut from various organisations

Letter to Edith F. Ewart from Francis Hugh Adam Marshall, 25 January 1935

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/38/6
Scope and Contents

Marshall writes that he is sending copies of Ewart's obituary notice which he wrote for the Royal Society. He hopes that Mrs Ewart does not mind him including some lines from her letters in the piece.

Dates: 25 January 1935
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1932-1935

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Elizabeth B. White, 10 January 1930

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/36/1
Scope and Contents

White writes that her husband has died and asks Ewart to write a short appreciation of him as a zoologist.

Dates: 10 January 1930
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1930

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Ernest MacBride, 01 January 1916

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/1
Scope and Contents

MacBride thanks Ewart for his paper on the development of the horse, and hopes to read the other parts when they come out. He has been asked by Nature to write the obituary for Arthur Darbishire, and asks Ewart for details concerning his regiment and the circumstances of his death.

Letter is unsigned.

Dates: 01 January 1916
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1916

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Ernest William MacBride, [c. 02 January 1916]

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/2
Scope and Contents

MacBride thanks Ewart for his telegram with the details he needed about Darbishire for his obituary, which he has sent to Nature. He is delighted with Ewart's work on the embryology of the horse, and believes that 'it is only by slow painstaking work of this kind that a real science of Comparative Embryology will ever be built up.' He is glad that Ewart gives no countenance to the 'crook theories' about the layers of the embryo.

The letter is undated.

Dates: [c. 02 January 1916]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1916

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James N. Terras, 27 January 1899

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/7
Scope and Contents

Terras thanks Ewart on behalf of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh for sending an obituary of Dr George Allman, and enquires when he might be willing to give his paper to the Society.

Dates: 27 January 1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1899

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from the Secretary of the Royal Society, 15 January 1930

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/36/2
Scope and Contents

The Secretary requests Ewart on behalf of the Society to prepare an obituary notice for Professor Philip J. White to be published in the Proceedings of the Society.

Dates: 15 January 1930
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1930

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from A. Higgs, c07 November 1920

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1252
Scope and Contents

Letter, 7 November 1920, A. Higgs to Donald Tovey. Congratulating Tovey on success. Holograph signed, with obituary note of James Higgs, 'The Croydon advertiser 1902 May 8'.

Dates: c07 November 1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

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