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Crum Brown writes to Balfour that he believes the University of Edinburgh should have three ordinary professors of Chemistry who work co-operatively together and who are each assigned a laboratory and junior staff. He then includes some financial projections for salaries and a new building which he states 'should not be ornate' and should be built so it could be extended.

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Lankester announces his resignation from the Chair of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, and states that he will be staying at University College London. He gives the main reasons for his resignation as 'ten months are required in Edinburgh instead of three as I supposed, and that there are no laboratories nor a museum, nor likely to be for many years to come' and that the Executive Commission 'may reduce the value of the post to any extent.'

Scope and Contents The University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development: buildings plans consists of: plans: proposed car park plans, (1971 plans: College of Agriculture, (1954-1974) plans: King's Buildings Centre, (1964-1973) plans: Maths / Physics Institute, (1965-1975) plans: zoology building, (1959-1973 plans: department of animal...

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13 copy architectural plans (52cm x 63cm) by Crudens Ltd, for a new building science laboratory at the University of Edinburgh King's Buildings. There are 3 site plans at 1:500 scale, 1 overdrawn in pencil with pedestrian movement. 1 site plan at 1/32" to 1' scale overdrawn with felt-tip pen. There are also floor plans at 1/8" to 1' scale and 1/16" to 1' scale, hand annotated elevations and a sheet of elevations and sections at 1/8" to 1' scale.