Edinburgh -- Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 838 Collections and/or Records:
Printed Membership Card for the Edinburgh Subscription Library, 30 October 1833
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0188
Scope and Contents
This is a membership card of the Edinburgh Subscription Library, printed on one side only, with member details completed in manuscript. These indicate that the card was first issued to the Rev. Dr. William Manuel on 30 October 1833. Later manuscript additions to the verso of the card indicate that it was transferred to Mrs Mackay, 13 Clifford St, Edinburgh, on 4 February 1841, and to Mr R. Mackay, 13 Archibald Place, Edinburgh, on 30 October 1850.
Dates:
30 October 1833
Printed Papers, c.1829-1864
Series — Box Lyell Box 1.22 (Formerly Gen 119): Series Coll-203/9 (Lyell 9)
Identifier: Coll-203/9 (Lyell 9)
Scope and Contents
Printed Papers consists of:
Address delivered by Sir Charles Lyell at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London (1836)
Lithology of the Environs of Edinburgh by Dr Fleming (1856-1857)
Biographical notice of Sir Charles Lyell as President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1864)
Press cutting of letter from Sir...
Dates:
c.1829-1864
Proof copy of article on 'The Geological Influences which have Affected the Course of British History', 1881
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/8/4
Scope and Contents
First proof copy of an article by Sir Archibald Geikie on 'The Geological Influences which have Affected the Course of British History' from printers Clay, Sons and Taylor, for Macmillan the publisher in 1881. This looked at ancient peoples and legendary figures, puting them in the context of the evolution of the natural world. Including elements such as the impact of the devlopment of commerce and the move from an agricultural to an urban industrial society, Sir Archibald Geikie mapped them...
Dates:
1881
Prophecy about Benbecula by Coinneach Odhar, 6 February 1885
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/273
Scope and Contents
Prophecy about Benbecula [Beinn na Faoghla] by Coinneach Odhar collected from Sorch[a] MacPherson, 'our excellent servant', 31 Raeburn Place [Dùn Èideann/Edinburgh]. The prophecy begins 'Aird nan ceann, Aird nan ceann, Is math liom fhein nach mi bhios ann'.
Dates:
6 February 1885
Proposed dental hospital, University of Edinburgh : general correspondence, 1967-1976
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/10.1
Scope and Contents
A file entitled "Lister Trust Site - proposed Dental Hospital". The file contains notes of meetings with interested parties, correspondence, committee papers and minutes relating to the University of Edinburgh's application to the the Corporation of the City of Edinburgh for planning permission to build a dental hospital on a site owned by the Lister Trust, close to the location of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, at the time. Committee papers represented include: The University of Edinburgh...
Dates:
1967-1976
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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University of Edinburgh: proposed dental hospital
Proposed dental hospital, University of Edinburgh: site studies, c1974
File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/10.2
Scope and Contents
Two studies carried out by Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates, evaluating sites for the construction of a proposed Dental Hospital and School for the University of Edinburgh. The first compares 3 sites within the University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area. The second looks in more detail at one of the sites, the "Bristo Site".
Dates:
c1974
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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University of Edinburgh: proposed dental hospital
Publication proofs and lecture syllabuses, 1867-1881
Series
Identifier: Coll-74/8
Scope and Contents
The Publication proofs and lecture syllabuses series consists of:
- lecture syllabuses, 1867-1869
- publication proofs, 1879 and 1881.
Dates:
1867-1881
Quarto A, c1680-c1708
Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A
Scope and Contents
The papers of David Gregory in Quarto A consist of:
107 manuscript papers and an index, relating to: theoretical physics, including optics, especially treatises on refraction and colour, on mechanics, specifically on velocity, gravitation, centrifugal and centripetal force, and the movement of solids through fluid, and an occasional thought on magnetic attraction. Applied physics, considering ships,...
Dates:
c1680-c1708
Quo ad D.G. spectant in Pitcarnii Probl. de inventoribus, after August 1688
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [42]
Scope and Contents
Commentary on Archibald Pitcairne's Edinburgh edition of Solutio Problematis de Historicis; seu de Inventoribus Dissertatio, (1688) of which an enlarged edition appeared at Leiden in 1693. This tract made Pitcairne's subsequent medical career on the continent for its vindication of the claims of William Harvey to the discovery of the circulation of the blood. It contains other things as well, notably the first public presentation of Gregory's second method of...
Dates:
after August 1688
Records of the Scottish Musical Society
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1385
Scope and Contents
- Records of foundation and dissolution
- Minutes of meetings
- Membership records
- Financial records
- Correspondence
- Papers relating to the Scottish Universities Commission
- Newspapers relating to the society
Dates:
1879-1900