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Notebook containing a record of the campaigns of the 1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards in the Crimea.
Item
Identifier: MS.9319
Scope and Contents
The contents are compiled from official and other documents, and consist of: rolls of service of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who went to the Crimea; rolls of promotions, honours, and awards;
detailed returns of the state and strength of the battalion, including medical reports; a journal of the campaigns and battles in which the battalion took part.
The notebook is illustrated with occasional sketches, ink and watercolour, and with two military poems.
Dates:
1854-1856.
Notebook from Perth Academy containing problems in mensuration, surveying and levelling (with examples from the North and South Inch at Perth) and gauging.
Item
Identifier: MS.14291
Scope and Contents
There are illustrations in pen and wash and water-colours.
Dates:
Late 18th-century.
Notebook of Alexander Drysdale, containing material on trigonometry with calculations of heights and distances illustrated with drawings in watercolours.
Item
Identifier: MS.14286
Scope and Contents
One example is taken from Leith (folio 26). Also included are some sketch plans of property near Fergus, Ontario, farm accounts and miscellaneous notes, 1835-1838.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Notebooks from Perth Academy.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14292-14293
Scope and Contents
Presented, 1975, by Mrs Isobel Stirling, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1828
Papers of Frank Whyte, civil engineer, including notebooks, watercolours and letters, with educational certificates of his sister, Mary Whyte, teacher.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14564/1-18
Dates:
1910-1967