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Human Beings

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

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

5 Lectures on geology, c1879

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Identifier: Coll-74/6/18
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Notes and text for five lectures on geology. Sir Archibald Geikie placed civilisation, religion and mythology in the context of geological development, looking at geolgical formations and the processes and materials involved in their creation.

Dates: c1879
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Boston lectures

Animal bioreactors, 1989

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Identifier: Coll-1362/2/600
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Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1989. Part 2.

Dates: 1989
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (IAPGR)

Charm entitled 'Bun Dearg' with vocabulary and accompanying note about medicinal plants, c1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/48
Scope and Contents Charm entitled 'Bun Dearg' [Charm of the Red Water] beginning 'An t-eolas a rinn Calum-cille, Us leth chas sa churrachan'. The accompanying note gives vocabulary for plants which have medicinal properties, citing their uses for example 'The splitting of the human hair at the point is called gadmunn. The plant called the gadmunn prevents this hence the name.' Mention is also made of the availability of the plants in Iochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The plants are used for ailments in both...
Dates: c1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Conserved synteny between human chromosome 6 and pig chromosomes 1 and 7, December 1994

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Identifier: Coll-1362/4/578
Scope and Contents

Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1994. Part 2.

Dates: December 1994
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Roslin Institute

If hens were women...Dr A B Gilbert of the ARC Poultry Research Centre, Edinburgh takes an unconventional look at the pullet's potential, February 1971

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Identifier: Coll-1362/3/627
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1971.

Dates: February 1971
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Lack of pathogenicity of Rous 1 virus for humans: a long-term experiment, 30 January 1960

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Identifier: Coll-1362/3/179
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1958-61.

Dates: 30 January 1960
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Lecture text: 'Lecture I', c1879

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Identifier: Coll-74/6/6
Scope and Contents

Text of lecture looking at geological themes, such as landscape, physical geography, the formation of continents, types of rock and volcanic activity, and relating them to such subjects as the relationship between man and nature, mythology, history and religion.

Dates: c1879
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Boston lectures

Localization on pig chromosome 6 of five markers: GPI, APOE, TGFb1, ENO1 and PGD, carried by human chromosomes 1 and 19 using in situ hybrydization, 1991

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Identifier: Coll-1362/2/1080
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Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1991. Part 2.

Dates: 1991
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (IAPGR)

Mapping the complex genomes of animals and man, 1993

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Identifier: Coll-1362/4/8
Scope and Contents

Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1993. Part 1.

Dates: 1993
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Roslin Institute

Notes and sayings connected to decision-making, c1868

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/2
Scope and Contents Notes and sayings connected to decision-making possibly collected from a Mrs MacDonald [identity and location unspecified] or inspired by a conversation with her recorded as, 'Mrs MacDon[ald] said the caus[es] were mom[ents] of folly. I doubt if were not re[a]s[on] as g[rea]t mo[ments] of folly every day.' He refers to the remark made by Captain Thomas about [the lazine[ss] of people to invest[ing] in his work of the Outer Hebri[de]s'. The quotes which follow relate to the farmer's...
Dates: c1868
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

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