Edinburgh -- Scotland
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of 19th-century photographs of Scotland and Geneva, Switzerland
This collection comprises twenty-one black-and-white photographs mounted on board showing various locations in Scotland (including Edinburgh, Stirling, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, Loch Katrine), Geneva, and an unidentified location (probably also Geneva).
James Johnson: notes from lectures on chemistry by Joseph Black
The lectures on chemistry by Joseph Black consist of:
- 1 volume of lecture notes (1770-1775)
Lecture Notes of John Robison
Lecture notes from the time when Robison was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. The notes embrace the sciences of mechanics, hydrodynamics, astronomy and optics, together with electricity and magnetism.
It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.
Notebook on legal matters, including copy of transcript of the trial of Capt.John Porteous
Panorama of Edinburgh from Calton Hill
Papers of Alan W. Greenwood
Papers of Conrad Hal Waddington
Papers of Eric Lucey
Papers of Everitt Young
The collection is composed of letters to Ivory Buchan (Margaret Ivory Ritchie Buchan) and includes: Edinburgh letters, 1931-1938, beginning on a regular basis in 1934, with comments on teacher training, and setting up a private school in Blackhall; South Africa letters, 1938-1951, going abroad for health reasons, early difficulties in South Africa, and about work in Benoni and Johannesburg.