University of Edinburgh -- Principals
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Faculty of Science Minute Book, 1963-1966
Includes letters and reports, covering subjects such as courses, students, research grants and appointments. Those present at meetings included Michael Meredith Swann, Sir Edmund Langley Hirst, Tom L Cottrell, Hermann Brück, Charlotte Auerbach and W Ewart J Farvis,
Friendship [Provost Elder and Principal Baird], 1793
Friendship [Provost Elder and Principal Baird]. Etching. 1793. Kay, John, 1742-1826, Artist, Etcher.
Published in: Edinburgh Portraits (1837), CCCX.
Note: Annotation in ink on page below plate explaining the relationship between Baird and Elder.
General: 1949, 1949
Correspondence and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Sir Edward Victor Appleton, Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Hugh Martin and Thomas Forsyth Torrance. Includes material relating the University of Edinburgh, clothing ration books, a paper on eschatology and items relating to an insurance claim due to illness.
Journal of a tour round the world taken by Sir John Fraser (1885-1947)
Laureation Degrees (First Laureation Album), 1587-1809
Letter from Joseph Black to Principal William Robertson, undated
Letter from Joseph Black to Principal William Robertson, undated. The letter relates to Black asking how to address Prince Dashkov in a letter The item includes Robertson's reply.
Letter from Sir David Brewster to the Editor, the 'Scotsman', 5 November 1867
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Turner, 14 December [1910]
Turner thanks Ewart for sending him the cutting from The Field and describes the bones he has acquired from various whales.
The year is not written on the letter.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Turner, 20 March 1911
Turner writes that the Committee will recommend that the Court approves the appointment of a Lecturer and an Assistant in Genetics.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Turner, 22 December [1915]
Turner thanks Ewart for his monograph on the development of the horse, and hopes that he has the material to continue to trace this development through further stages.
The year is not written on the letter.