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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.

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.

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.

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.

Records and manuscripts of the Scottish Mountaineering Club.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.179- is now part of Acc.11538.

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.