Diagrams.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Graphic designs that explain rather than represent. (AAT).
Found in 94 Collections and/or Records:
Large scale plans and diagrams of Patrick Geddes., Late 19th century-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.10656
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Letter, 1927, of Patrick Geddes to Emile Vinck; with a diagram of a ‘thinking machine'; and a photograph of the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition, 1913., 1913, 1927.
File
Identifier: MS.21205, folios 1-3
Letters chiefly to and of John Rennie., 1779-1821.
File
Identifier: MS.19932
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,...
Dates:
1779-1821.
Letters, mainly to various officials in the Board of Health from scientists, inventors and manufacturers., 1855-1860.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.51.1.15
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1855-1860.
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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Correspondence, notes and printed material relating to the Heating and Ventilation Commission, of which Campbell was secretary.
Letters of and to and papers of and concerning Sir Patrick Geddes and Dr Arthur Geddes, 1913-1977.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.21205
Letters, reports, military returns, and other papers concerning the Martinique expedition under the command of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane., 1808-1809.
File
Identifier: MS.2316
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:
1808-1809.
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 Leeward Islands.
Lists of and essay on Gaelic technical terms concerning wool-working, housewifery, dairy work., 1900.
File
Identifier: MS.451
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...
Dates:
1900.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Vocabularies, glossaries, and other material compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
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Lists of and essays concerning Gaelic technical terms.
Lists of Gaelic technical terms concerning wool-working, housewifery, dairy-work, boating., [?1899-?1909.]
File
Identifier: MS.450
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...
Dates:
[?1899-?1909.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Vocabularies, glossaries, and other material compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
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Lists of and essays concerning Gaelic technical terms.
Manuscript annotations of the first half of the eighteenth century on an interleaved copy of ‘Fabularum aesopicarum delectus, cum Rogeri L'Estrange, equitis, interpretatione Anglica, necnon Latina variorum, Horatii, Phaedri, Faerni, &c. In usum studiosae juventutis Academiae Edinensis’ (Edinburgi, apud Jacobum Watson, MDCCX)., 1st half of 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.16485
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript annotations of the first half of the eighteenth century on interleaved copies of ‘Fabularum aesopicarum delectus, cum Rogeri L'Estrange, equitis, interpretatione Anglica, necnon Latina variorum, Horatii, Phaedri, Faerni, &c. In usum studiosae juventutis Academiae Edinensis’ (Edinburgi, apud Jacobum Watson, MDCCX).
Manuscript, eighteenth century, of 'Traitté des fortifications selon les meilleurs autheurs’, with diagrams., 1670, 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2738
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Dates:
1670, 18th century.
Manuscript from Perth Academy containing material on hydrostatics, pneumatics and optics., 1787.
Item
Identifier: MS.14296
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
All three volumes are illustrated with pen and wash diagrams and sketches.
MS.14296 is initialled ‘I M’ by the compiler (folio 91).
Dates:
1787.
Manuscript from Perth Academy containing notes and exercises on astronomy., 1783, 1786-1787.
Item
Identifier: MS.14295
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
All three volumes are illustrated with pen and wash diagrams and sketches.
MS.14296 is initialled ‘I M’ by the compiler (folio 91).
Dates:
1783, 1786-1787.
Manuscript from Perth Academy containing notes and exercises on spherical geometry and trigonometry, and algebra., 1787.
Item
Identifier: MS.14294
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
All three volumes are illustrated with pen and wash diagrams and sketches.
MS.14296 is initialled ‘I M’ by the compiler (folio 91).
Dates:
1787.
Manuscript of chapters 1-3 of ‘Thermography’ by John Francis Campbell., 1883.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.6
Scope and Contents
The volume begins with notes and correspondence concerning the publication of the work. The letters are mainly to Campbell from the printers, with several from other correspondents including Sir George W Dasent and Sir Henry E Roscoe, 1883.
There are several rough drawings and diagrams accompanying the text.
Dates:
1883.
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.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, being a collection mainly of his geological observations while on his travels from July 1862 to November 1863, including extracts from earlier journals., 1862-1865.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.5.13-50.6.1
Scope and Contents
On the whole the manuscript and printed versions correspond.
Dates:
1862-1865.
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.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, chapters 43-58., 1862-1865.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.1
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains the preface to the first volume (folio 465) and additional material at the end which appears not to have been published. Rough diagrams illustrate the text and there are copies of Campbell`s ‘On a New Self-Registering Sun-Dial’ (folio 396) and ‘A Method of Converting Collodion Negatives into Positives by Heat’ (folio 401), together with proofs of the index and a list of illustrations to ‘Frost and Fire’ inserted at the back of the manuscript.There is also...
Dates:
1862-1865.
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.
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Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, being a collection mainly of his geological observations while on his travels from July 1862 to November 1863, including extracts from earlier journals.
Material concerning a corn-mill of Norse type at Loch Ordais, South Bragar, Lewis, the outcome of a project by the pupils of Leurbost J S School., 1968.
File
Identifier: MS.14956, folios 4-12
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Newspaper cutting describing the project (folio 4);(ii) Diagrams of mill with Gaelic terms (folio 5);(iii) Malcolm Mackay (Calum Ruairidh), Bragar. “‘Se fath mo mhulad mar chaidh a’ mhuilinn”, 9 quatrains (folio 7);(iv) “Muileann na Criadha aig iochdair an òis”, 8 quatrains (folio 8);(v) “A’ mhuileann a dh’fhàgadh ‘na tàmh bho chionn fhada”, 8 quatrains (folio 9);(vi) Description of mill...
Dates:
1968.
Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 1., [?2nd half of 18th century-?early 20th century.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1398-1417
Dates:
[?2nd half of 18th century-?early 20th century.]
Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 1., 1795-1821.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1413
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Notebook, 1803, of John Rennie concerning machinery for sugar-mills in Trinidad and Guyana (MS.19817);Correspondence, papers, and diagrams, 1805-1813, of John Rennie concerning mills, chiefly for sugar, for Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Demerara (Guyana) (MS.19818);Correspondence, papers, and diagrams, 1814-1821, of John Rennie concerning mills, chiefly for sugar, for Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Demerara (Guyana) (MS.19819);...
Dates:
1795-1821.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures, from the National Library of Scotland. Parts 1-2 (Adam Matthew, 2003).
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Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 1.
Minute book of the Edinburgh Skating Club., 1889-1966.
Item
Identifier: MS.24642
Scope and Contents
The minute book records regular meetings up to 1939, followed by the Secretary's memorandum of 1966 recommending the winding up of the club and the disposal of its property, with members' assents thereto (folios 78-82).
Additional material includes club songs for 1842 and 1843 (folios 136-137); the Glasgow Skating Club Rules, 1875; ‘The Edinburgh Skating Club, with diagrams of figures and a list of members’, (Edinburgh, 1875) (folios 138-150); ‘Skating diagrams’ by Charles A Stevenson, 1881...
Dates:
1889-1966.
Miscellaneous accounts and papers relating to the estates of the Douglas family of Springwood Park., 1754-1915, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8091
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts, 1787-1910 (folio 1);
(ii) 'Acct. of the length of the New March Dyke between Ancrum & Langnewton', 1767 (folio 68);
(iii) 'A scheme for dividing Roxburgh Kirk', 1754 (folio 69);
(iv) Papers, 1769-1800, concerning the stipend of the minister of Roxburgh (folio 71);
(v) Copy of minutes, 1862-1863, of meetings of the heritors of the parish of Ancrum (folio 76);
(vi) Information (printed), 1812, on the fisheries of the river Tweed in the...
Dates:
1754-1915, undated.
Miscellaneous notes by Patrick Geddes and others, chiefly for lectures., 1870-1946, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10619-10631
Miscellaneous notes, diagrams, and other papers of and, relating to Sir Patrick Geddes., 1912-1924, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19998
Scope and Contents
Included is material on botany, sociology, the Edinburgh Masque of Learning, 1912 (folio 42), and the Scots and Indian Colleges, Montpellier, undated (folio 64).
Dates:
1912-1924, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Patrick Geddes., 1900-1940, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19997-19999
Dates:
1900-1940, undated.