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Burntisland (Scotland)

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Geological Survey notebook 'V', 1879

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/1/3
Scope and Contents

Drawings and notes on the geology of parts of Scotland, particularly Fife (including Elie, Largo and Burntisland) and also of Elgin. Geological features include limestone, shale, tuff and basalt.

Dates: 1879
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Geological Survey notebooks

Notebooks Containing Sermons Preached at Duns

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2269
Scope and Contents

Notes for sermons and lectures delivered at Duns [Dunnikier], Scotland, but also at Alloa, Burntisland, Cairney, Leith, Leven, Methven, Milnathort and Pathhead, probably by a secessionist minister. Two other preachers, Mr Armstrong and Mr Smart are mentioned, 21 August 1773 (p.18) and 25 August 1776 (p.180). 18 July 1773 - 25 Aug 1776. 2 vols.

Dates: 1773-1775
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Thomas McCrie (1772-1835), Presbyterian church historian

 Collection
Identifier: MS MCC 5
Scope and Contents

Letter book of correspondence from McCrie to Rev. Charles Watson, minister of Burntisland. 39 letters, dated 1819 and 1831-34.

Also bound in:

Account of the controversy respecting the Marrow of Modern Divinity, 1831-1832. 110 pages.

Address on Sabbath observance. December 1832. 16 pages.

Front board bears bookplate commemorating presentation to New College Library by the Family of Rev. Robert Boog Watson.

Dates: 1819-1834
Found in: New College Library Special Collections