Sea life
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 6 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
Correspondence of Alexander E.R. Aggasiz
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-96
Scope and Contents
The correspondence of Alexander E. R. Agassiz is mainly about coral reefs. There are letters to Sir Charles Wyville Thomson and to Sir John Murray (1841-1914). There is also material on Agassiz's life and scientific work.
Dates:
circa 1867-1910
List entitled 'Gnath-Fhocail', c1862
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/50
Scope and Contents
List entitled 'Gnath-Fhocail' containing proverbs and sayings on subjects such as days, weather, seasons and living creatures.
Dates:
c1862
Note about horse or cow hair, June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/43
Scope and Contents
Note about horse or cow hair collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay, the meaning of which is unclear. Also, vocabulary note which reads 'Conachag = shell'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
June 1887
Three riddles involving sea-life, vessels and rocks, February 1895
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/90
Scope and Contents
Three riddles written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula involving sea-life, vessels and rocks which read 'Se sin a chuir am breallach-breac a thaigh a chonachair, 'S a chuir an conachair a thaigh a gheara-bhric. An t-ioasad.'; Cha robh fuaim mor o shothach lan riamh, Ged 's beag do [chron] smor t tiomlag.' and 'Chaidh triuir gu carraig thill an triuir, 's cha do chairrich a charraig.'
Dates:
February 1895
Vocabulary note that [Magairle-garbh] is a sea-urchin, August 1909
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/75
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary note that [Magairle-garbh] is a sea-urchin. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
August 1909