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One framed photograph of the International Physiological Congress held in Edinburgh in 1923, showing the c. 300 delegates in the Quadrangle of the Old Medical School of the University. Names are given around the photo.

The second photograph has no caption whatsoever, but probably is a graduation photograph. The group includes E. Scharpey-Schafer, Professor of Physiology at the University of Edinburgh from 1899 to 1933. It was taken by E. R. Yerbury and Son.

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Edinburgh University certificates of merit of John Aymers MacDougall, in the following classes: midwifery (1863/64), material medica (1863/64), medical jurisprudence (1864), and systematic surgery (1864/65).

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Edinburgh: "Special" lectures and addresses:

Anatomical Association (DJC served as President)

Royal Medical Society Dinner

Association of Physicians and Surgeons

Students' Union

Annual meeting of University Union

to Members of Naval Medical Service

"to a student gathering"

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Edinburgh: "Special" lectures and addresses:

"Third Year Dinner" (on two occasions);

Australian Students' Dinner;

Dinner for Professor Berry;

Indian Medical Service Dinner;

In memory of Professor His;

Aesculapians Club (when elected member and elected chairman);

Dinner for Noel Paton;

3 unidentified occasions.

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This is a graduation medal in medicine, awarded to William Judson van Someren in 1845 by the University of Edinburgh.

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Edinburgh Gay Switchboard (EGS) members talking to medical students regarding the psychosexual aspects of medicine; the Regional Working Party on AIDS; Nightline requesting speakers; Lothian Marriage Guidance sexual abuse workshop; the Counselling Convention Scotland 1988 event; late night Saturday shifts; training; an AIDS update; the Social Work Department grant and the potential impact of the Clause 27 Local Government Bill; joint conferences with Glasgow Gay...

Scope and Contents This sub-fonds contains the certificates and related documents of John William Aldren Turner, as well as three class photographs from Clifton College.It also includes a file (now divided in four folders) entitled "Reprints, various - D. Ferrier" containing offprints, typescripts, journals, and newspaper cuttings dating from 1869 to 1913; as well as two letters dated 22 February and 9 April 1974, sent by Dr "Jerry" Spillane (John David Spillane, 1909-1985) in Cardiff to John...

Scope and Contents Two essays on Jean-Baptiste Philippe and St. Luce Philip, medical students from Trinidad who studied at the University of Edinburgh in the 1810s and 1820s respectively.These essays form part of the body of a workI in progress, tentatively titled: 'The Lions Roar' - a genealogical, historical, Caribbean and beyond study. Joanne Haynes is the great, great grand niece of Michel Maxwell Philip, Trinidad's first Mayor of color and relative of Jean-Baptiste and St. Luce. This work...

Scope and Contents This subfonds contains: Photocopies of a certificate of the second grade from the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, 1866 Photocopies of certificates of study from the University of Edinburgh, 1871-1872 Transcripts of a letter from Edith Pechey to Anne Jane Anderson expressing her shock at the news that Anne will get married and give up...

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Concerns administration of the national management training scheme and work placements for students.