Diagrams.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Graphic designs that explain rather than represent. (AAT).
Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:
Printed session papers, Stott v Murray (state of actions of advocation, etc.), with manuscript notes by Lord President Blair., 1798.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.1.15
Dates:
1798.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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“Blair’s Collections”: Session papers of Robert Blair of Avonton, Lord President of the Court of Session.
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Printed session papers with manuscript notes by Lord President Blair.
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Printed session papers, Stott v Murray, with manuscript notes by Lord President Blair.
Printed ‘Trajectory, etc., of the Martini-Henry rifle’, including tables and diagrams., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.14812
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
19th century.
Rearranged copy, late 16th century-mid 17th century, of Sir James Balfour of Pittendrigh, 'Practicks’., [Circa 1579], 1638, 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.6.3(c)
Scope and Contents
Volume containing the alphabetical rearrangment of Sir James Balfour’s ‘Practicks’, with an 18th century index (folios 8-207; iii-xvii). It is prefaced by ‘The ordoure of Chancellarie’ section (folio 1). It is followed by ‘Schiplawis elected further of alcheron… Anno 1543, 1557’ (folio 209) and ‘The lawes of the merches betwixt Scotland and Ingland, 1590’ (folio 232); these are not the Balfour passages on these subjects, which appear in their proper places in the main section. The border...
Dates:
[Circa 1579], 1638, 18th century.
Recordings of sun-spots from December 1883 to 1884 accompanied by meteorological notes and diagrams., 1881, 1883-1884.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.5
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains several rough watercolour sketches of Scottish scenes, dated August 1881, and some earlier solar experiments with related cuttings, 1881.
Dates:
1881, 1883-1884.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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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.
Reports, returns, correspondence and other papers, 1814-1816, concerning expeditions on the Patuxent, Potomac and Chesapeake rivers, and against Washington and Pensacola, with letters and reports, 1814, from Alexandra, Virginia., 1814-1816.
File
Identifier: MS.2329
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...
Dates:
1814-1816.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane as Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station.
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)-(vi)
Dates:
13th century-17th century.
Rough preliminary notes on thermography by John Francis Campbell made at an earlier date than his manuscripts of ‘Thermography’., 1881-1882.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.8
Scope and Contents
An explanatory note on the contents occurs at the beginning, dated 29 September, 1882.
Diagrams accompany the text which is mainly concerned with materials and apparatus used in Thermic experiments.
There is one letter to Campbell from Sir William H M Christie, Astronomer Royal, discussing sun-spots, 1881 (folio 26).
Dates:
1881-1882.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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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.
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.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.15
Scope and Contents
The volume contains notes, detailed diagrams, photographs and samples of materials used in the experiments.
Dates:
1880-1882.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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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.
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.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.16
Scope and Contents
Towards the end of the volume are notes on, and diagrams and photographs of sun-spots.
Dates:
1881-1882.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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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.
Scrapbook of John Francis Campbell, mostly containing notes and records of experiments he made in solar physics., 1880-1882.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.7
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1880-1882.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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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.
Series of two drawings - Diagram of falls of water wheels and turbines - Esk, River, North, Midlothian., 1892.
File
Identifier: MS.5849 (125)-(126)
Dates:
1892.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Edinburgh, London Road-Ey.
Series of two prints - Diagram of castle; Huntly fishing - Huntly, Aberdeen - surveyed by D and T Stevenson., 1861.
File
Identifier: MS.5852 (14)-(15)
Dates:
1861.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with H.
Sociological notes, undated, of Patrick Geddes with detailed diagrams., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.10623
Scope and Contents
The manuscript also contains notes in Anna Geddes' hand (folio 29) giving a summary of the Paris Exhibition, probably written in the summer of 1916, and corrected by Patrick Geddes.
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, lectures, notes and other papers of and concerning Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932).
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Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Patrick Geddes.
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Miscellaneous notes by Patrick Geddes and others, chiefly for lectures.
Sociological papers of Arthur Geddes, chiefly relating to the work of Patrick Geddes., 1921-1963, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19269-19274
'Tea Assistant in Cachar' by D Foulis, an essay on growing tea and managing an estate in Assam.
File
Identifier: MS.9659
Scope and Contents
The essay is followed (folio 55) by examples of estate records, diagrams, and sketches of tea plants drawn in 1870. Reference is made to a periodical published in October 1870.
Dates:
[Circa 1870.]
Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Madras, Poona, Bombay, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Bilaspur, July 1911., 1911.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.6
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.
Dates:
1911.
Treatises on medicine, astronomy and astrology written by Francisco Argilagues of Valencia, mostly while he was studying medicine at Siena in 1472-1473, with an addition made at Padua in 1480.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.2
Scope and Contents
From the subscriptions and the physical make-up of the volume it appears that there were originally four booklets, bound together a century later.The contents of the volume are as follows:- Written in 1472 with additions in 1480:`Sermo de conservatione sanitatis` by Filippe Bandini of Arezzo (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 1294). The beginning is lost but author (Philip de Roderia) and title (`Regimen...
Dates:
1472-1480.
Typescript of William G Boag, "Percussion in Military Service".
File
Identifier: Acc.6712
Scope and Contents
With diagrams of different types of drum.
Dates:
circa 1950-circa 1976.
Typescripts of Guides and lists of exhibitions for the Edinburgh and Scotland Rooms of the Outlook Tower., 1928-1957.
File
Identifier: MS.19278
Scope and Contents
There are also some notes and diagrams concerning the exhibitions.
Dates:
1928-1957.
Various manuscripts and fragments, almost all undated, in the autograph of Hugh Miller., 1819-[1852, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.7518
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Two 'Descriptive Letters' probably intended for publication and signed 'M--r', concerning a visit to Edinburgh in 1824 (folio 1);(ii) Fragmentary notebooks, 1819-1820, undated, mainly containing poems, some of which were published with many alterations in ‘Poems written in the leisure hours of a journeyman mason’ (Edinburgh, 1829) (folio 10);(iii) Description of the parish of Cromarty: basically the text of the description...
Dates:
1819-[1852, or before.]
Volume entitled ‘Solar Spherical Scale for Sketching’, dated May 1881, Naples, containing a number of diagrams and sketches., 1881.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.3
Dates:
1881.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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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.