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

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

5 Lectures on geology, c1879

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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

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
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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

Extracts and notes on natural history, c1770

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Identifier: Coll-205/4/3 (Dc.2.38)
Scope and Contents

1761 descriptive list of 146 important titles in natural history; notes on 'Boece's Chronology' [of kings of the Scots back to BC 330]. 'Boece' is probably Dundee-born historian Hector Boethius (c.1465 - 1536). Approximately 80 handwritten pages.

An eighteenth-century hand denotes this 'M.S. Vol. 37'. The leaf holding pages 3 and 4 has been excised.

Dates: c1770