Edinburgh -- Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 838 Collections and/or Records:
List of prices for dressing animal skins, October 1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/81
Scope and Contents
List of prices for dressing animal skins by Yule Tanner, 25 Grassmarket, Edinburgh. Prices listed are for otter, fox, cat, roe, deer and fawn.
Dates:
October 1892
List of proverbs, c1873
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/17
Scope and Contents
List of proverbs written in ink and annotated in pencil. A note on folio 82v pertains to this substantial list and reads 'All the preceding sent to Sheriff Nicolson Kirkcudbright 2 Sept[ember] 1873 A[lexander]. A[rchibald]. C[armichael].'. Two notes appear on folio 91v and 92r written in pencil, in the opposite direction to the rest of the text, unconnected with the proverbs. They are as follows: ' [-] Bhothigh = Banks fishing bank' and 'Miss Rose - Robert Armstrong Photo[grapher] 63 Princes...
Dates:
c1873
Lothian Street / Potterrow realignment, 1979
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/5.5.2
Scope and Contents
3 copy plans, on paper, (85cm x 115cm) showing the proposed road realignment of Lothian Street and Potterrow, in Edinburgh, to make way for the construction of Bristo Square. One plan shows the road alignment and associated banking and bridgework overlain on an Ordnance Survey 1:1250 plan. This also shows the electricity supply in the area overlaid. The other 2 plans are at 1:500 scale show different details of layout, measurements, street furniture etc. One of these plans is hand...
Dates:
1979
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection
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Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates
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University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area
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University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area
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Development of Bristo Square
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Development of Bristo Square: plans
Lothian Street / Potterrow realignment, 1978
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/5.5.3
Scope and Contents
Mixed collection of working drawings and plans (maximum dimension 86cm x 122cm) depicting the creation of Bristo Square in Edinburgh. There is a 3-dimensional pencil drawing, on tracing paper, of an oblique bird's eye view of the square and its adjacent buildings. 2 coloured (in thick felt-tip pen) paper stylised manuscript plans of the area. The first shows the proposed surface of the square, the second shows the site-lines around the area of the square. There are 2 sheets of small-scale...
Dates:
1978
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection
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Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates
/
University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area
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University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area
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Development of Bristo Square
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Development of Bristo Square: plans
Magnetism, c1780-c1803
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/32
Scope and Contents
Volume contains manuscript notes on magnetism, with numerous diagrams and tables.
Dates:
c1780-c1803
Matter, Physics, c1780-c1802
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/4
Scope and Contents
Volume contains lectures on the nature of matter, and on its behaviour in the physical universe.
Dates:
c1780-c1802
Mechanics, c1802
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/3
Scope and Contents
Subtitled 'Theory of Machines', pulleys and kites among them, this volume contains lectures on dynamics and statics, with attendant calculations and diagrams.
Dates:
c1802
Mechanics, Astronomy,, c1780-c1803
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/28
Scope and Contents
Volume contains manuscript notes on general mechanics, and on pulleys and wedges in particular, and wheels and axles. There are subsidiary discussions of things like collision and the mechanics of muscular action. The astronomy notes promised on the book's spine describe how to manage the study of the heavens with big machines. Numerous small diagrams intersperse throughout the book. Some terms appear in Russian.
Dates:
c1780-c1803
Minute Book No 7, 07 November 1867 - 18 March 1879
Item — Volume MS 2918.1: Series Coll-43/1
Identifier: Coll-43/1/7
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing minutes of ordinary meetings with 432 numbered pages. Full details of the Society's business is recorded including: details of honorary, corresponding and normal membership and diplomas awarded, reports from Annual General Meetings including details of office-bearers and their election, financial details, details of the publications of Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, details of donations for the Society's museum and...
Dates:
07 November 1867 - 18 March 1879
Minute Book No 8, 17 April 1879 - 29 April 1897
Item — Volume MS 2918.2: Series Coll-43/1
Identifier: Coll-43/1/8
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing minutes of ordinary meetings with approximately 500 pages. Full details of the Society's business is recorded including: details of honorary, corresponding and normal membership. Also included are details of the nomination of the first lady associate, Grace Milne-Home on 04 May 1893 and the formation of a student membership class on 18 February 1892. Reports from Annual General Meetings include details of office-bearers and their election, financial details,...
Dates:
17 April 1879 - 29 April 1897