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Scotland

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

Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:

Ewen MacPhee the Outlaw, c 1930

 Item — Box Box 8 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/C/3/11
Scope and Contents

A duplicate postcard reflecting R. R. McIan's romantic paintings of Scottish Highland life and the clans, this one showing Ewen McPhee the Outlaw

Dates: c 1930
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / Scenes of Scotland / Scottish Highland and Clan Life depicted in postcards

Extracts and notes on natural history, c1770

 Item
Identifier: Coll-205/4/2 (Dc.2.37)
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...
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)

Extracts and notes on natural history, c1770

 Item
Identifier: Coll-205/4/3 (Dc.2.38)
Scope and Contents

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.

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)

First printed map of Scotland, 1570, 1905

 Item — Box PC6/2: Series Coll-1167/B; Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/1/5
Scope and Contents

Facsimile photo-lithograph. From the First Great Atlas 1570. See Ortelius, Abraham “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum” (1570).

Dates: 1905
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / The Survey of Edinburgh / General and geographical

Folio E, c1692-c1708

 Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E
Scope and Contents The constitution of the Folio E papers of David Gregory follows: The documents' order is random, but the collection has several foci. One is David Gregory the academic's need for books. Numerous shopping lists for titles abroad reflect this, (one of which also includes a requirement for tea), as do inventories of other people's libraries nearer to home. Another focus in the collection is Gregory's public...
Dates: c1692-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

Garron Pony Stallion, "Herd Laddie" of Duke of Atholl, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3092
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Garron pony stallion, "Herd Laddie" that belonged to the Duke of Atholl in the early 20th century.

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

Gathering Dulse, c 1930

 Item — Box Box 8 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/C/3/13
Scope and Contents

A postcard reflecting R. R. McIan's romantic paintings of Scottish Highland life and the clans, this one showing a scene of people gathering dulse

Dates: c 1930
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / Scenes of Scotland / Scottish Highland and Clan Life depicted in postcards

General addresses, c1912-c1955

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/4/3
Scope and Contents

Lectures and addresses given by John Baillie to various audiences throughout his professional life. Includes lectures on the church and international affairs, priesthood and the modern world, Christianity in Scotland, the ecumenical movement, ethics in relation to nuclear weapons, agnosticism, education and theology and war.

Dates: c1912-c1955
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Lectures and addresses

Geological Map of Scotland, 1876

 Item
Identifier: Coll-99/11/11
Scope and Contents

Hand coloured geological map of Scotland produced by Sir Archibald Geikie.

Dates: 1876
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Maps

Geological Maps Survey of Scotland (1), 1875-1884

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-99/11/3
Scope and Contents

Colour-coded geological maps probably created by Geikie and others in the course of his work as part of the Geological Survey of Scotland.

Dates: 1875-1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Maps

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