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

Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

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

Papers and letters of Sir John Dalrymple, on the subject of fish soap

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1917
Scope and Contents

Papers and letters of Sir John Dalrymple, on the subject of "fish soap from herrings", 1798-1799.

Dates: 1798-1799
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Poem beginning 'Am fac thu each seachad an seo?', 9 April 1901

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/1
Scope and Contents

Poem beginning 'Am fac thu each seachad an seo?' for the safeguarding of animals, collected from W. M. Thorburn [William MacLeod Thorburn] of Skye, Wellgate, Dundee. Carmichael notes it as being 'Obtained my me from [William] Craigie, Oxford of the Oxford Dictionary'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 9 April 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Poem beginning 'Coin air loina', 1895

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/63
Scope and Contents

Poem writte down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula beginning 'Coin air loina, Eich air thaoda'. Text has been scored through in pencil.

Dates: 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Proverb beginning 'Mar dho[bh]ran am beul uisge', 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/132
Scope and Contents

Proverb beginning 'Mar dho[bh]ran am beul uisge, Mar Sheobhag gu iar sleibhe'. The text has been scored through in pencil and in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.

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

References for books on natural history, 1886

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/62
Scope and Contents

References for books on natural history which reads 'See Dean Munro on F[ield] vole. Culpepper on horse shoe plant. Reeves on iodh.'

Dates: 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Report on hair and skin remains from Ashgrove Farm, Methil, Fife and other Bronze Age sites, 1966

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/229
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1965 - 1966. Volume 4 of 19.

Dates: 1966
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO)
Coll-1434/628 [Please click on image twice to see the full collection]
Coll-1434/628 [Please click on image twice...

Roslin Slide Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1434
Scope and Contents This collection of 3,465 glass positive slides were acquired from the Roslin Institute in November 2009 as part of a larger accession of material. The slides, which range in date from the 1870s to the 1930s, cover a wide range of subjects; photographs of indigenous peoples from around the world, international travel scenes, personal portraits (frequently of figures connected with the natural/veterinary/agricultural sciences), images and portraits of domestic animals (chiefly sheep, poultry,...
Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Saying beginning 'Aona godhar deug ghiorlagach ghearlagach ghoirleagach', 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/54
Scope and Contents

Saying written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula beginning 'Aona godhar deug ghiorlagach ghearlagach ghoirleagach'. The saying appears to be a tongue-twister involving animals and people. The text has been scored through in pencil and it looks as if Alexander Carmichael has altered the 'chalmana' to 'chalamana'.

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Song beginning 'Gu d fhalbh an diu Cro-nan gobhar', 12 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/80
Scope and Contents Song collected from Kenneth Morrison, aged 80 years Coinneach mac Dhonnachai[dh] Nisissi, Harris [Nisishee, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] beginning 'Gu d fhalbh an diu Cro-nan gobhar, Dh'eug a Mhiseach sam Barra buinigneach na deo'ai[gh]'. The song is composed of twenty five lines. The accompanying note tells how he heard this song when he was young from an old woman in MacLeod's country in Skye [An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. 'She said she comp[osed] this herself when she lost her...
Dates: 12 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael