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Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Scotland

Found in 168 Collections and/or Records:

Peach and Horne: Replies to Queries, 1890s-1900s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/3/18
Scope and Contents

Replies to queries by John Horne and Benjamin Neeve Peach (1842-1926) on Raised Beaches, with reference to locations in Scotland and Ireland, what had been mapped and by whom.

Dates: 1890s-1900s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Papers relating to Raised Beaches

Personal papers of and relating to Kenneth Murchison, 1770-1938

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-51/2/1
Scope and Contents 1 Reproduction of portrait by Raeburn (advertisement in Connoisseur, November 1938), with letter of Henry Raeburn to K. Murchison, 2 July 1793. The price of the portait was 18.18s.0d. + frame £3.10s.6d. 4 items. 2 Probate of will. 5 fols, vellum. With Extracts, 3 fols. 3 Five certificates in surgery, midwifery, etc., London, 1771-1772. 4 Matriculation of armorial bearings, Edinburgh, Lyon Office, 16 June 1788, with seal, in...
Dates: 1770-1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and his Family / Kenneth Murchison

Poem entitled 'Fionn', 1 August 1885

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/31
Scope and Contents

Poem entitled 'Fionn' collected from Murdoch MacLeod, Skye [An t-Eilean Sgitheanach] beginning 'An dara cos aig Fionn'.

Dates: 1 August 1885
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Policy-shaping, 1999-2004

 Sub-Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1049/2
Scope and Contents These papers represent the policy-shaping work carried out by Professor Sir D Neil MacCormick during his exercise of office as MEP, 1999-2004. Policy-shaping work was carried out through debates on questions of importance, through urgent debates on human-rights and through responses to communications from the Commission and European Council or Committees of Inquiry and Special Committees. Reports for...
Dates: 1999-2004
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor Sir D. Neil MacCormick

poster designs, c1931-1937

 File
Identifier: PJM/UOL/D/1
Scope and Contents

Two posters (64cm x 90cm) by Percy Johnson-Marshall, undertaken whilst a student at the Liverpool School of Architecture. They are entitled "Swim and be fit" and "Cruises from Liverpool to the Scottish firths and fjords". The posters have similar depictions of people enjoying themselves in bathing outfits and are executed in bright poster colours.

Dates: c1931-1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / University of Liverpool studentships / Miscellaneous University of Liverpool student assignments

Poultry research, 1960

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/199
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1958-61.

Dates: 1960
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Prizes Won by Broomhouse Hercules (9031), 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/495
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a photograph of the pig "Broomhouse Hercules (9031) and a list of the prizes he won between 1906 and 1908.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Queries concerning the north of Scotland, c1770

 Item
Identifier: Coll-205/4/1 (Dc.2.36)
Scope and Contents An extended essay, with annotations in a different hand, on the improvement of northern Scotland, hampered presently for want of sufficient information. Discussions centre on the following: the need for a proper census, with special respect to military resources, inclinations to particular industries (and the price of labour), emigration, and increase; arable land; manures; cattle; woods; fossils, meaning minerals and coal; mines; fisheries, especially concerning river salmon, and cod and...
Dates: c1770
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Dr. John Walker / Extracts and similar relating to Scotland, its history etc.(3 vols Dc.2.36-38)

Quotation about sea-pink and scurvy-grass, c1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/64
Scope and Contents

Quotation about sea-pink and scurvy-grass, that they are 'witnesses of cosmical change that the summits of the highest hill in Scotland were once islands' taken from MacMillan's Magazine.

Dates: c1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Quote about the 'Anglicized Scot', c1893

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/20
Scope and Contents

Quote about the 'Anglicized Scot' which reads 'If there is anything proved up to the hilt it is that an Anglicized Scot is a greater enemy to his native land and to his native people than an English man.'

Dates: c1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

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