Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...

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A small amount of correspondence is inserted (folios 135-145), principally letters of Sir Kenneth S Mackenzie, 6th Baronet of Gairloch, to Campbell, 1862, concerning geological matters.

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The manuscript is in Devanāgarī script, and contains pairs of illustrations at intervals (usually a sign of the zodiac plus a diagram).

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With diagram of a solar eclipse in 1764.

Scope and Contents The volume falls roughly into two sections:(i) Experiments in and notes on Thermography, a subject in which Campbell became increasingly interested towards the end of his life.As a result of his experiments with the sun`s rays, he published several pamphlets, two of which are included in this volume:‘Time Scales Horizontal and Vertical’ (folio 169) and “Campbell`s Registering Sun-Dial” (folio 152). There are also notes, diagrams and cuttings relating to...

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There is more material relating to the ‘Sutherland Gold Fields’, principally diagrams and press cuttings (folio 101), and towards the end of the volume is a series of notes and watercolours made while travelling in the north of Scotland.

Scope and Contents Campbell’s description of his visit to Italy dwells particularly on Mount Vesuvius and on the works of art he saw in Rome and Florence.Near the beginning of the volume he discusses Gaelic literature and meteorology with accompanying diagrams and cuttings.A little correspondence for 1874 and several printed items including copies of Campbell’s ‘On the Glaciation of Ireland’ (folio 3) and ‘About Polar Glaciation’ (folio 28) have been inserted at the front of the...

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The items are for the most part undated. They chiefly consist of sociological diagrams of the 'Thinking machine' type, with several biological and town-planning diagrams and drawings. Also included is a watercolour sketch plan of the Paris Exhibition of 1900 (no. 44), designs for New Crosby Hall, Chelsea (nos. 51-53), and plans for properties at Roseburn Cliff and Mount Tabor.

Scope and Contents Manuscript containing the 'Panormia' of St Ivo of Chartres, divided into eight books.Dolezalek suggests that the manuscript was produced in England, while Szuromi suggests that it was written in France. Both base their conclusions on the script and style of decoration.The work has been dated to the 12th century by Borland and Szuromi; to the late 12th century by Brett; and to the early 13th century by Michael Gullick. The manuscript is written in a...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters of George Rennie, engineer, 1808-1809, 1814, 1821. (Folio 1.) (ii) Letters of Sir John Rennie, 1810-1812, 1814-1815, 1818-1821. These include the detailed letters he sent while on his extensive tour in France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt. They contain plans and diagrams as well as detailed descriptions of many engineering undertakings, especially bridges and harbours. (Folio 25.) (iii) Letters of George Rennie of Phantassie, 1792, 1806,...

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Included among the correspondents are the chemist Sir Henry E Roscoe, the inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone, and the engineer Sir William Fairbairn.

A considerable number of printed items have been bound into the volume and are mainly reports and articles on various heating and ventilating systems, including a few in French.

There are also some of John Francis Campbell`s notes on experiments relating to heating and ventilation, with diagrams.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...

Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...

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The annotations consist of: (i) Parsing, translation and etymology (all in Latin) of words from the Greek text of fables 1-22, almost identical with the corresponding part of MS.16484 (folios 4-22); (ii) Diagrams for the definitions and propositions of Euclid, books 1-4, 6 (folios 23-39); (iii) Trigonometrical diagrams and problems (folios l, 39 verso-46); (iv) Algebraic problems (folios 49-54).

Scope and Contents The similarity of the annotations suggests that these volumes reflect closely the elementary teaching of Greek at Edinburgh University in that period, and possibly that students were able to buy or encouraged to have the book interleaved. The only other copy recorded by D Wyn Evans in ‘James Watson of Edinburgh: a bibliography of works from his press 1695-1722’, Edinburgh Bibliography Society Transactions, volume V, part 2, 1982, number 190, in Edinburgh Central Public Library, is not...

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Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.

Scope and Contents The treatise is in thirty-five chapters and is followed (folio 105) by explanatory notes to the illustrations, and (folio 127) by the illustrations themselves, which are in trick. It is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a diagram of the divisions of a field.Three folios which probably contained the title page and dedication have been removed from between folios 2 and 3. Offsets of the dedication survive, from which it appears that the author`s name was Bonin, and that he presented his...