Research notes.
Found in 551 Collections and/or Records:
Notes on Stokkseyri, Stöng, Suðurnes, Svarfaðardalur, Vatsnfjörður, and Vatsnes., 1987-1988.
Notes on the battle of Otterburn for Scotland: The Story of a Nation'., 1999.
Notes on the first Earl of Minto and Alexander Elliot., Undated.
Notes on the Icelandic Saga of Snorri Sturluson., 1951; 1997.
File includes a pamphlet on Snorri Sturluson (1997).
Notes on various families and collections relating to India., Undated.
Notes on þingeyrar, þingvellir, þjórsardalur, and Reykholt., 1964-2000.
Some Icelandic text.
Notes, photocopied essays, and scripts on the Domesday Book for BBC television programme Pebble Mill., 1978.
Occupational songs and incantations, ca. 1953-1960
An essay or paper on the origins and antiquity of occupational songs, cradle songs and incantations. At the back of the volume are notes on plant names and lore, with some notes loosely inserted.
Other Essays, Reviews, and Meditations, relating to Rankin’s PhD thesis on Muriel Spark., 1983-1986.
Pamphlet and notes on Hormstrandir., 1975; 2002.
Papers and notes of Frank Roydon Richards, mostly concerning the decipherment of the Linear B script, with material concerning other cuneiform scripts.
Frank Roydon Richards, rector of Glasgow Academy from 1932 to 1959, devoted much of his retirement to the study of Linear B and especially the methods used by Michael Ventris, to whose decipherment he took a sceptical attitude. For comparative purposes he also studied the methods used by the decipherers of Hittite and other cuneiform scripts. The bulk of the material consists of transcripts of texts and summaries of books and articles, with critical comments by Richards interspersed.
Papers and notes on the Scottish Natural Heritage field visit to Iceland to investigate soil conservation strategies., 1991-1993.
Papers, including correspondence, research notes, press cuttings and printed materials, of Dr Sue Innes, mostly concerning her research into the subjects of citizenship, women and gender studies.
The collection contains correspondence, manuscript and typescript research notes, annotated typescripts of research papers, newscuttings and printed materials. Most of the material is undated.
Papers, notes, and newspaper cuttings on Vigdís Finbogadóttir., 1969-1988.
Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
Papers of Sir Thomas Muir on mathematics.
Papers of Thomas Ian Rae concerning his Folger Library Fellowship and the subsequent publication of his research., 1962-1966.
Papers on Magnusson’s 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' entry for John Williams (1792-1858) First Rector of Edinburgh Academy., 1998-2000.
File includes correspondence with Oxford University Press, research notes and draft of DNB entry.
Papers on Scottish natural heritage arranged alphabetically by Magnusson., 1991-2006.
Papers on Scottish Places., 1960-2006.
Papers on the Island of Barra., 1969.
File includies script entitled ‘The Disappearing Island', a newspaper cutting, and notes on Barra.