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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook No.126, 3 December 1845 - 12 December 1845

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/126
Scope and Contents This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from December 3, 1845 to December 12, 1845 upon leaving Boston and traveling to Philadelphia, with visits in New Haven, Connecticut and New York City, and further enroute to Washington, D.C. The notes are comprised of discussions about politics and religion, supplemented by commentary about social life, in New England and the United States more broadly, plus field notes, observations, and sketches concerned with geology and natural history,...
Dates: 3 December 1845 - 12 December 1845

Notebook No.143, 4 May 1846 - 12 May 1846

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/143
Scope and Contents This notebook contains Lyell’s notes during his second trip to the United States, dated 5 May 1846, to 11 May 1846. The volume starts with Lyell in Baltimore, travelling through Philadelphia, New York City, Albany, and Troy, New York State. On pg. 12 Lyell notes seeing a humming bird in Miss Watson's Greenhouse. Lyell spends much of his time in upstate New York with a few colleagues: Joseph Cogswell (American librarian), Ebenezer Emmons (American Geologist), James Hall (American...
Dates: 4 May 1846 - 12 May 1846

Papers of John Baillie, 1900-1964

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: BAI 1
Scope and Contents

school and university notes; awards and achievements; lectures, addresses and broadcasts; sermons and prayers; manuscripts of published works; papers relating to the World Council of Churches, British Council of Churches, General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and other organisations; personal and professional correspondence

Dates: 1900-1964

Papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie, 1908-1961

 Series
Identifier: BAI 7
Scope and Contents

The papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie consist of:


  1. articles, cuttings and ephemera
  2. career/employment resumés and references
  3. correspondence
  4. memorials and letters of condolence
Dates: 1908-1961

'Penicillin cephalosporin - destroying enzymes', New York, USA, 27 October 1964, 1964

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/F/1/F.44
Scope and Content

The material consists of manuscript notes for lecture 'Penicillin cephalosporin - destroying enzymes' by Martin Rivers Pollock, given at New York, USA, 27 October 1964.

Dates: 1964

Photograph with the caption 'Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, 1935', 1935

 Item — Box CLX-A-355
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0035
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white photograph with no provenance information representing the Arc in Prospect PArk, New York, and a car.

Dates: 1935

Small postcard from Harold Hotelling to Thomson praising his work regarding mental factors published in the British Journal of Psychology, 5 Oct 1935

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1310/1/1/1/5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes letters to and about Thomson regarding his life, work, and career from a variety of correspondents including Karl Pearson, Egon Pearson, Edward Lee Thorndike, Sir James Duff, Carlos Paton Blacker, David Glass, and Derrick Lawley.

Dates: 5 Oct 1935

The Wild or Prejeyalski's [Przewalski's] Horse, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1905
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a pair of Prejeyalski's [Przewalski's] horses in a pen at the New York Zoological Park, 'in their summer coat' in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s