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Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

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The thesis is the basis of the biography, ‘David Livingstone, the dark interior’ by Oliver Ransford and gives fuller particulars of his theory that Livingstone was cyclothymic.

Scope and Contents Item is a copy of a litograph showing statistics of the Cosmopolitan Gold Mine in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Charles John Mackintosh was shareholder manager of the the mine around 1864. He went from Glasgow to Australia as part of the great wave of gold rush migration in the 1850s and 1860s. Mackintosh returned to Scotland in 1865. He invested his fortune in the City of Glasgow Bank, which went bust in 1878. The family history notes provide background information about the Mackintosh...

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Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.

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The graph was kept up by the Royal Engineer staff at General Head Quarters under the superintendence of Lieutenant-Colonel (later Lieutenant-General Sir) William G S Dobbie.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:Meteorological and thermographical graphs and charts, 1858-1884, and undated (numbers 1-30).Watercolours of geological features, 1873, and undated (numbers 31-32).Rubbings, on paper, mainly of Celtic tombstones, 1861, 1871, and undated (numbers 33-45). Some of the rubbings have been enhanced with pen and ink wash.Watercolour (or possibly ink wash) sketch, probably of part of a tombstone, undated (number 46)....

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Some items have dates or may be dated between 1911 and 1929, but most are undated, of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.

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Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.

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Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.

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Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.

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Also included (folio 46) are a letter, 1947, of the county clerk of Argyll to Naomi Mitchison, and a draft in typescript carbon, with alterations in her hand, of a report, 1948, on fishing by the Highlands and Islands Advisory Panel.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

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The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Summary of the principal measures during the viceroyalty of the 4th Earl of Minto, 1905-November 1908 (folio 1); (ii) Letter and resolution concerning the revision of the rules for sanctioning expenditure from Indian revenue, 1908 (folio 52); (iii) Papers relating to alterations in budget procedure, 1908 (folio 59); (iv) Principal events affecting the Finance Department, 1906-1909, chiefly relating to the gold standard, currency, and excise (folio 76); (v)...