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Descriptions of new and extant species of land and aquatic animals, including insects (approximately 204 handwritten pages).

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Descriptions of plants, including trees and lichen, animals, and fish.

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Descriptions of plant and animal species observed mostly around Edinburgh (approximately 198 handwritten pages).

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Descriptions of plant and insect species (approximately 212 handwritten pages).

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Descriptions of plant and insect species (approximately 202 handwritten pages).

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Descriptions of new and extant species of plants, with notes about other people's collections (approximately 192 handwritten pages).

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Descriptions of new and extant species of plants, mostly, with a few insects and minerals as well (approximately 176 handwritten pages).

Scope and Contents Extracts chiefly from Sir Robert Sibbald's books and MSS on natural history in the Advocates' Library. Subjects include minerals, antiquities (e.g., Roman epigraphy, bones in medieval battlefields), sea and animal life, native customs (magical scarves that cattlemen's wives once wore), geographic curiosities (a cliff that shines in the sun, a natural hole of unsoundable depth, there being no frogs in Getland, etc.) Approximately 178 handwritten pages. Authorship not known with...

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1761 descriptive list of 146 important titles in natural history; notes on 'Boece's Chronology' [of kings of the Scots back to BC 330]. 'Boece' is probably Dundee-born historian Hector Boethius (c.1465 - 1536). Approximately 80 handwritten pages.

An eighteenth-century hand denotes this 'M.S. Vol. 37'. The leaf holding pages 3 and 4 has been excised.

Scope and Contents Scots plants of the Linnaean class Cryptogamea; History of the mines at Wanloch Head; Elevatio Plantarum; Epistola ad Linnaeum; Letter to Sr James Nasmyth; Hortulan experiments; The old Gardens at Bargaly; Note on the Battle of the Bree; Some fruits at Munches in Galloway; Scots insects; the Loch Fyne shark; Two fossils; 8 species of Tremella; 2 species of Clavaria; Description of Agaricus Annulata; and of Lichen Punctatus; agricultural benefits of the Nile's overflow and Vesuvius' eruption;...