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

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

5 Lectures on geology, c1879

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/6/18
Scope and Contents

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

'A History of Royal Edinburgh Hospital' by Violet Redpath Scot, c. 1970

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Identifier: LHB7/8/121
Scope and Contents

Incomplete typewritten copy. Includes what may have been a front cover with a photograph of Craig House and a portrait of Sir Thomas Clouston.

Dates: c. 1970

Catalogue of book[s] now in Holland, May 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [23]
Scope and Contents

List of 17 titles (partial cites only) in Latin and French, in an unnamed repository, concerning history, classical literature, and philosophical commentary, such as the "Dictionaire Critique de M. Bail".

Dates: May 1693

Certificates, Diplomas etc of Principal William Robertson

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-71
Scope and Contents 1. King's College and University, Aberdeen. Award of the degree of Doctor of Divinity to W.R. 3 July 1764. Signed by the following professors: John Chalmers, John Lumsden, John Gregory, Alexander Burnet, Thomas Gordon, Thomas Reid, John Leslie, George Gordon. Vellum, approx. 60 cms x 68 cms, with small wax seal in metal box attached. 2. Edinburgh, Town Council. Commission of W.R. as Principal of the University of Edinburgh. 11 November 1762. Signed by George Drummond,...
Dates: 1743-1783

Church History (junior), c1910

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Identifier: BAI 1/2/17
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6 booklets of notes taken at 89 lectures on Church History at New College.

Dates: c1910

Church History (senior), c1910

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Identifier: BAI 1/2/18
Scope and Contents

8 booklets of notes taken at 85 lectures on Church History at New College. The final booklet also has some notes on ethics.

Dates: c1910

Conversion, 1951

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Identifier: BAI 1/13/14
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Paper entitled Conversion, accompanied by notes and by a letter to John Baillie from Donald Macpherson Baillie offering his opinion. The paper looks at theological issues such as baptism and conversion, puting them in a historical context

Dates: 1951

Correspondence and notes, 1948-1949

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Identifier: BAI 2/4/1
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Notes taken by Florence Jewel Baillie on history, culture, geography and other aspects of New Zealand; correspondence (including letters to her mother); lists and itineraries.

Dates: 1948-1949

Edinburgh University Register, 1644

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Identifier: EUA IN1/GOV/CRT/Da.21/1
Scope and Contents

The register contains the discipline and rules for the College of Edinburgh. In the back of the volume, written upside down, are notes made by Mackie on European and Scottish family trees, both royal and landed families, history of parts of Europe including more detail on Scottish and English history, with listings of significant events.

It is almost certainly a later copy: this is definitely so if it was written by Mackie.

Dates: 1644

EU Arts: Logic and History of Philosophy, 1905

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Identifier: BAI 1/2/3
Scope and Contents

8 booklets of notes taken at 91 lectures in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Dates: 1905