Marine Animals
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph Letter Signed from James Ritchie to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts, 11 March 1925
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/23
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from James Ritchie, Professor of Natural History and keeper of the Natural History Department, University of Edinburgh, to the Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts. Paper headed: "The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh". Dated 11 March 1925.In the letter, Ritchie wonders whether "some Fellows" might be interested to "hear an account of "Methods of Controlling mussels & other Marine growths in Sea-Pipes"". He explains: "The blocking of pipes by mussel...
Dates:
11 March 1925
Fragment of a poem beginning 'Chunna mise sin s cha b ionagh' and accompanying note, June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/175
Scope and Contents
Fragment of a poem beginning 'Chunna mise sin s cha b ionagh, Na muca marra mor mora a seinn'' and accompanying note that it was composed by a guilty man about to be hanged [and who had to compose twelve false verses to escape the noose].
Dates:
June 1887
HMS Challenger Papers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-46
Scope and Contents
At Gen.28-31 the Challenger Papers contain sheets of plates illustrating various marine life forms, and original drawings of marine life forms; engravings, lithographs, photographs, etc. of marine life forms; drawing and engravings of Challenger equipment; and, statistical material, graphs, charts and maps. There are drawings, engravings and photographs of Challenger personnel at various tasks, and of Challenger and its interiors; and, pictures of people and places (not Challenger...
Dates:
1872-1876