Biological rhythms
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW,Use For = Biorhythms
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
Story and notes about eels and dog-fish, 24 June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/118
Scope and Contents
Story and notes about eels and dog-fish collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann]. MacAulay states that morgan [dog-fish] stick to rocks like muc-creige [wrasse] and that an eel once caught a man at Lochdibaig [Loch Diabaig, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but he killed it and found it was full of goll-luachair [reeds] which are used by coopers for barrels. It was thought that the eels had eaten...
Dates:
24 June 1887
Story and notes about snakes, June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/39
Scope and Contents
Story and notes about snakes collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay, describing when and how the snake sheds its skin; how a man saw a snake jump twelve feet in the air after he had threatened it; that all the belly scales are used in travelling and that they will chase children but not adults. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
June 1887
Vocabulary note for 'Geisnean', c1893
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/12
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary note for 'Geisnean' which reads 'Geisnean = here cows goats gestate animals - geis = Swan.'
Dates:
c1893