Edinburgh -- Scotland

Volume contains manuscript notes on the science of acoustics. Special topics include ear trumpets and the tuning of instruments. Two or three diagrams attend.

5 manuscript plans (95cm x 124cm) by the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh showing the residential tenure patterns within the boundary of the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh South Side Local Plan. There are 5 plans showing tenure patterns from the ground to the fifth floor, taken form the 1973 valuation roll. The plan showing the 4th floor is not present. The plans are hand-drawn in felt-tip pen on Ordnance Survey 1:1250 plans with the boundary of the Local Plan added.

Copy plan (94cm x 126cm) by the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh showing details of property ownership by large owners within the boundary of the South Side District Plan. The information is hand coloured in felt-tip pens onto an Ordnance Survey plan at 1:1250 scale with the boundary of the district plan marked on it. There is a coloured legend to the ownership parcels.

Volume contains manuscript notes on the geometry of motion and stasis; numerous diagrams attend.

4 sketch plans on manuscript pre-prepared base (48cm x 58cm), probably by Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates. Themes are hand coloured using felt-tip pens . These show schematic ideas studies for the proposed St James Square Comprehensive Development Area in Edinburgh. Subjects covered are pedestrian circulation, levels, zoning and relative heights of major and distributor roads.

3 copy large scale Ordnance Survey base plans (76cm x 124cm), with local additions to the detail. A pink hand coloured boundary of the Edinburgh St James Square - Leith Street Comprehensive Development Area is overlaid. The plans show utilities in the area overlaid, one plan each for telephone cables, gas pipes, and sewers and manholes. Depth of the utilities is also shown.

Story about a drowned puppy collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann]. The story tells how boys used to make ceallagan [strings of hooks] for fishermen. One boy drowned a puppy and the next morning a trosg [cod] was caught on his ceallag [string of hooks] and when it was opened up the drowned puppy was found inside it. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Story collected from Dr Aisley, Coillemore House [Killiemor House, Am Muile/Isle of Mull] telling how he dissected a royal subject while in Edinburgh University when he was an assistant to Professor Go[o]dsir. The royal subject was Prince Sobieski of Poland, who had been wounded in battle and escaped to Dùn Èideann/Edinburgh. He died in the infirmary of his wounds. The end of the story is very truncated and the text has been scored through in pencil.