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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:

Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. 1, c1741

 Item
Identifier: Coll-205/5/1 (Dc.2.39/1)
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;...
Dates: c1741
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Dr. John Walker / Papers on Agriculture, Natural History and similar

Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. 2, c1726-c1802

 Item
Identifier: Coll-205/5/2 (Dc.2.39/2)
Scope and Contents

Essay on cultivating with marle; Description of a whale cast ashore in Fife; Novum Organicum Botanicum; extensive correspondence between John Clark and 'Mr Gale' (approximately 200 handwritten pages, with some drawings).

Dates: c1726-c1802
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Dr. John Walker / Papers on Agriculture, Natural History and similar

Miscellaneous University of Liverpool student assignments, 1931-1937

 Series
Identifier: PJM/UOL/D
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous University of Liverpool student assignments consists of:


  1. poster designs, c1931-1937
  2. "A gymnasium and swimming bath", c1931-1937
  3. "Venesta vintry house", c1931-1937
  4. "An atelier", c1931-1937
Dates: 1931-1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / University of Liverpool studentships

Mulatto and Romulus at 5 days old, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/327
Scope and Contents

Photograph of James Cossar Ewart's West Highland pony, Mulatto, and her foal, Romulus, at 5 days old standing next to each other in a barn. Romulus was born in 1896 and is a cross between a horse and a zebra.

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

Mulatto and Romulus at 7 days old, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/328
Scope and Contents

Photograph of James Cossar Ewart's West Highland pony, Mulatto, and her foal, Romulus, at 7 days old standing next to each other outside in a paddock. Romulus was born in 1896 and is a cross between a horse and a zebra.

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

Nether Kinneddar House, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2214
Scope and Contents

Photograph of three men standing on the entry stairs to the Nether Kinneddar house in Saline, Scotland in the early 20th century.

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

Newspaper cutting from the Scotsman, Verus et Utilis, The British Scientific Association, 8 October 1834

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/13
Scope and Contents

Printed article regarding the proceedings of a meeting of the British Scientific Association mentioning a visit by Sir Charles Lyell to Sweden, the publication of a geological map of Scotland, freshwater limestone and Kirkton Quarry, 8 October 1834.

Dates: 8 October 1834
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and correspondence on the geology of Forfarshire

Notable Potato Raisers, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3273
Scope and Contents

Four portrait photographs of 'notable potato raisers' at the first potato exhibition and conference of the Scottish Horticultural Association in Edinburgh in October 1912. The men in the photographs are: John Niven, Madderty, Crieff; Archibald Findlay of Mairsland, Auchtermuchty; James Gardiner, M.P, Perth; and Donald McKelvie, Lamlash, Arran.

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

Note about Iona and Saint Columba, 1886

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/313
Scope and Contents

Note which reads "Hebraice dictur Iona" Adam[nan] Saint Columba left Ireland of his own accord - Scotia is not Scot[land] even tho[ugh] of old Ireland so Ui is now island'.

Dates: 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note of the Scottish Act of Parliament regarding witches, c1893

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/27
Scope and Contents

Note of the Scottish Act of Parliament regarding witches that it was made in 1542.

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

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