Edinburgh -- Scotland
Found in 834 Collections and/or Records:
Vocabulary note for tadpole, dragonfly and some plants, 24 June 1887
Vocabulary note for dragonfly and some plants collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann. The note includes 'Ceanna-Phollan', 'C[eanna] Simid' [both meaning tadpole] and gives 'Tarbh-Narach' as a term for dragonfly and describes its size. It gives 'Cluas an Fheidh' as possibly 'Harts tongue', 'Caol Phail' as a plant of three feet high or more and 'Meac-an-mor' as being 'Like Leeks'.
Vocabulary note for types of fish, 24 June 1887
Vocabulary note for types of fish collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann] including that the donnag [ling] is like the 'mùgach' and that they are 'Claoidheag = Wriggles like eels' [cloitheag or shrimp].
Vocabulary note which reads 'Said of fools - Ialtag - Luach[rach] Peewit - An Tasg = Tamhas', 24 June 1887
Vocabulary note which reads 'Said of fools - Ialtag - Luach[rach] Peewit - An Tasg = Tamhas' collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Year Old Large White Gilts, Gogar Mains [Edinburgh, Scotland], 1870s-1930s
Photograph of three year old Large White gilts in a pen at Gogar Mains, [Edinburgh, Scotland] in 1937.