Edinburgh -- Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 832 Collections and/or Records:
Hydraulics, c1780-c1803
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/26
Scope and Contents
Volume contains manuscript notes on hydraulics. Numerous diagrams append, including an enormous one of a fourteen-foot water wheel.
Dates:
c1780-c1803
Inaugural lecture, 1925
File
Identifier: Coll-1310/3/1/2/2
Scope and Contents
Thomson discusses how intelligence is distributed between the various social or occupational levels of society. He explains the normal distribution of intelligence within the population, drawing parallels with the distribution of height. Thomson refers to inquiries carried out by him in Northumberland in 1922, and inquiries carried out in the Isle of Wight in 1924, which demonstrated that individual differences outweigh social differences, and supported the notion that heredity plays...
Dates:
1925
Index Chartarum in M.S. C. in folio, 1700
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [index]
Scope and Contents
An index, in Gregory's hand, to the material he designated as Folio C.
Dates:
1700
Institute of Animal Genetics, c.1902-2000
Sub-subfonds
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/A1
Scope and Contents
Contains:
EUA IN1/ACU/A1/1 - Minutes of the Animal Breeding Committee and the Farm Sub-Committee;
EUA IN1/ACU/A1/2 - Reports, including annual, quinquennial and financial reports;
EUA IN1/ACU/A1/3 - Correspondence;
EUA IN1/ACU/A1/4 - Publications and offprints;
EUA IN1/ACU/A1/5 - Records relating to the history of the Institute;
...
Dates:
c.1902-2000
Intellectual System, Natural Laws, c1780-c1803
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/13
Scope and Contents
Volume contains notes on the philosophy of science and pedagogy.
Dates:
c1780-c1803
Interviews with distinguished British scientists, 1969-1971
Series
Identifier: EUA CA16/2
Scope and Contents
Interviews with:
Sir William Lawrence Bragg ( 1890-1971), physicist (1 CD)
Sir Harold Brewer Hartley ( 1878-1972 ), physical chemist (23 CDs)
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell ( b1913), radio astronomer, pioneer of radar and radio telescopes (3 CDs)
Lord John Boyd Orr ( 1880-1971), nutritional physiologist (1 CD)
Sir Frederick Stratten Russell...
Dates:
1969-1971
Interviews with former staff of the Institute of Animal Genetics, 1969-1971
Series
Identifier: EUA CA16/1
Scope and Contents
Contains interviews with: Charlotte Auerbach, Alick Buchanan Smith, Lord Balerno, F.A.E. Crew, Frank Fraser Darling, Hugh Paterson Donald, Honor Fell and Alan William Greenwood. The interviewer in all cases is Margaret Deacon.
Dates:
1969-1971
Introductions, c1779-c1801
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/1
Scope and Contents
Volume consists of drafts of numerous introductions for various kinds of lectures in 'natural philosophy', the first dated October 26, 1779, and possibly bearing the name of David Hume.
Dates:
c1779-c1801
Introductions, c1804
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/2
Scope and Contents
Volume consists of drafts of numerous introductions for various kinds of lectures in 'natural philosophy'. They discuss the use of terms like 'causation' and 'laws', concerned less with scientific facts than with how to study science itself.
Dates:
c1804
Inverness Royal Academy: third annual Edinburgh reunion, 1908
Item
Identifier: BAI 7/1
Scope and Contents
Card from the third annual Edinburgh reunion of Inverness Royal Academy pupils containing many of their signatures.
Dates:
1908