Records (documents)
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Balcarres Papers.
Collection of experiments concerning sun-spots with accompanying diagrams and notes., 1884.
Folder containing two examples of Circular Time Scales which are two long graph-like charts joined together and folded into the binding., 1877-1885.
The time scales are for the years 1880-1881, with illustrated meteorological observations made while he was travelling abroad, particularly in Egypt.
Other items are loosely inserted at the back of the folder, and include photographs of sun-spots, meteorological charts and diagrams, 1877-1885.
Folder of John Francis Campbell containing the sun-dial experiments for June 1874 described in Adv.MS.50.6.12a., 1855-1856, 1874, 1881.
Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.
Memorandum-books of General Sir George Murray containing records of interviews and audiences with the King of Sweden, and other memoranda relating to the mission to Sweden., 1808.
The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.
Miscellaneous small items of John Francis Campbell., 1857-1883, and undated.
Notebook of John Francis Campbell describing the registering sun-dial contrived by him in 1853, with the results of experiments using the appliance recorded for the month of June 1874., 1874, or before, 1879.
At the back of the volume Campbell lists the types of materials used in the experiments.
There are several letters of and to the astronomer William Ellis, 1879, discussing the sun-dial (folios 26 verso-35), and a letter of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong of Cragside, 1874 (folio 1), is also included.
Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography., 1848-1885.
Record book of the Westminster Club for 'gentlemen educated at Westminster School’., 1789-1798.
The volume contains minutes of club meetings at the Thatched House Tavern, 1789-1798 (folio 1), and rules, resolutions and lists of members (folio 80).
Recordings of sun-spots from December 1883 to 1884 accompanied by meteorological notes and diagrams., 1881, 1883-1884.
The volume also contains several rough watercolour sketches of Scottish scenes, dated August 1881, and some earlier solar experiments with related cuttings, 1881.
Records and manuscripts of the Scottish Mountaineering Club.
Records of the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians, south east of Scotland district.
Scrapbook of John Francis Campbell containing ‘372 Solar Thermographs of various sizes’, the results of his experiments with asbestos, from May to December 1882., 1882.
There are several letters bound in at the beginning of the volume including one from William Ellis and one from William Spottiswoode, the mathematician and physicist, 1882, and some press cuttings relating to meteorology and astronomy.
Scrapbook of John Francis Campbell containing experiments in solar physics., 1882-1885.
Scrapbook of John Francis Campbell containing experiments with the sun`s rays in Cannes, particularly relating to sun-spots., 1883.
Scrapbook of John Francis Campbell containing results of experiments in solar physics while he was in Egypt in 1880-1881 and in Cannes in 1882., 1880-1882.
The volume contains notes, detailed diagrams, photographs and samples of materials used in the experiments.
Scrapbook of John Francis Campbell containing the continuation of experiments to register solar images, mainly while he was in Cannes, and which he describes in Chapter 5 of ‘Thermography’., 1881-1882.
Towards the end of the volume are notes on, and diagrams and photographs of sun-spots.
Scrapbook of John Francis Campbell, mostly containing notes and records of experiments he made in solar physics., 1880-1882.
The volume takes the form of a diary. Diagrams accompany the daily record of experiments and their results.
A small amount of correspondence and press cuttings on various other subjects, particularly meteorology, is inserted throughout the volume.
Two rough manuscript drafts and two printed copies of a report ‘to the General Board of Health’ by the Commissioners appointed to inquire into warming and ventilation of Dwellings’, with a small amount of related correspondence., 1857.
At the beginning of the volume Campbell has recorded several experiments he made concerning movements of air.
The letters, mainly to and from Sir Henry S Roscoe and Sir George W Dasent, give reactions to the report.