Records (documents)
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Balcarres Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates:
1231-1686, and undated.
Collection of experiments concerning sun-spots with accompanying diagrams and notes., 1884.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.4
Dates:
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.
Folder containing two examples of Circular Time Scales which are two long graph-like charts joined together and folded into the binding., 1877-1885.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.14
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1877-1885.
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.
Folder of John Francis Campbell containing the sun-dial experiments for June 1874 described in Adv.MS.50.6.12a., 1855-1856, 1874, 1881.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.12B
Scope and Contents
Arcs of black water-proof material were used to register the daily path and burning power of the sun and are pasted on sheets of heavy cartridge paper joined together to form a continuous strip.Loosely inserted at the back of the folder is a sheet of linen on which several printed diagrams are mounted illustrating the sun`s burning power ascertained from Campbell`s Registering Sun-Dial in 1855-1856.Later notes of Campbell dated 4 July 1881 appear on the first board...
Dates:
1855-1856, 1874, 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.
Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.8
Scope and Contents
The subjects include the case brought by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, against Robert Wallace; the ‘Second Book of Discipline’; the Act of Revocation; and the protests against the Service-book. Most of the papers concerning the Covenant have been published more than once, and some appeared as contemporary pamphlets.Copy of a charter, 1360, granted by David II to the Bishop of Aberdeen; in Latin (folio 1). - This was printed from Adv.MS.16.1.10 in ‘Registrum episcopatus...
Dates:
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.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.1.19-46.1.20
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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.
Dates:
1808.
Miscellaneous small items of John Francis Campbell., 1857-1883, and undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.6a-g
Dates:
1857-1883, and undated.
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.
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.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.12a
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1874, or before, 1879.
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.
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.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.5.7-50.7.8
Dates:
1848-1885.
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.
Record book of the Westminster Club for 'gentlemen educated at Westminster School’., 1789-1798.
Item
Identifier: MS.6337
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1789-1798.
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.
Records and manuscripts of the Scottish Mountaineering Club.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.179- is now part of Acc.11538.
Dates:
1889-1959.
Records of the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians, south east of Scotland district.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.367
Dates:
Circa 1870 to 1978.
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.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.17
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
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 experiments in solar physics., 1882-1885.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.8
Scope and Contents
In particular Campbell records his study of sun-spots and their effect on weather. The small pamphlet he published on the subject, ‘Sun Spots and World`s Weather’, being two letters he sent to the editor of the ‘Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society’ in 1884, is included in this volume (folio 69).There is also a little related correspondence inserted here and there throughout the volume.Apart from notes and press cuttings on astronomy and meteorology,...
Dates:
1882-1885.
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 experiments with the sun`s rays in Cannes, particularly relating to sun-spots., 1883.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.18
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.
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.
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.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.51.2.1
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1857.
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.
Typescript records of programmes broadcast by the BBC Scottish Region (later the Scottish Home Service).
Collection
Identifier: Dep.288
Dates:
1935-1954.
Volume containing for the most part plates for ‘Thermography’ by John Francis Campbell, along with experiments, drawings and notes concerning the solar spectrum., 1883, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.19
Dates:
1883, or before.
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.