Scope and Contents Posterior coronal view of the head. Depicts management of a left subdural haemorrhage with associated ipsilateral tentorial herniation through the foramen magnum. Subdural haematoma is drained via burr hole while fluid is injected into the lumbar spinal subarachnoid space – allowing upward pressure to be exerted on the herniated brain tissue, thus shifting it back to the correct anatomical position. Note: annotated on the back of the drawing is "Mr. Shaw, Wd. 20, June 1960". Mr Shaw was a...

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Illustration of a device that allows surface water to enter tile.

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Illustration and text on examining soil for drainage using water level test holes to investigate the nature of the soil and subsoil of the land.

Scope and Contents Drawing showing coronal section of a brain undergoing a drainage procedure, depicting how the posterior circulation of the brain can become disrupted. Posterior coronal section of the head depicting resolution of secondary ventricular enlargement and bilateral uncal herniation with the use of a ventricular drain (in the right anterior horn of the lateral ventricle) via burr hole and a spinal injection (which exerts an upward pressure on the herniated brain tissue, thus correcting the...

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Photograph of Henderson's draining plow at the end of a cut in a field in the mid 20th century. One side of the cut has been coloured pink on the slide.

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Notes for 5 lectures on 'The Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles' given to the Royal Institution in 1884, along with printed abstracts. Sir Archibald Geikie focused on geological formations around the British Isles, with comparisons from European and North American locations, looking at the materials of which they are composed and the processes which went into their creation.

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Illustration and description of a main drain used in land drainage with the pipes and mole-track and branch highlighed.

Scope and Contents Notes on place-names and archaeology made on a journey between Caolas Stiatair House and Tarbert market [An Tairbeart, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] with Rev. Don[ald] Macintosh [MacKintosh], S[outh] Uist [Uibhist a Deas] and Mr Archie MacRae, Huisinnish [Huisinis]. The notes are quite abbreviated but include a mention of trap dykes at Loch chistevad [Loch Cisteabhat] in the middle of which was a castle, which someone tried to drain to get to the castle but failed; and a note that nearby at...

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Photograph of men and women planting lettuce and other vegetables on individual plots of land in a field surrounded by trees in the early 20th century. The text under the slide notes that the land is so 'poorly drained that it was necessary to lower the paths between the plots.'

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Image of a table summarizing the averages and results for minimum and maxiumum rainfall and drainage at Rothamsted between 1871 and 1904.