Surveys. Documents.
Subject
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Scope Note: Documentation of examinations or inspections conducted in order to achieve a comprehensive view, as of a place, a group of related items, or to ascertain condition or value. For detailed lists of items on hand, or of items in a given category, use ""inventories""For sets of questions submitted to a number of persons to obtain information, use ""questionnaires"" .
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander Nimmo`s copy of his account of the survey made by him in the summer of 1806 of the northern, eastern and southern boundaries of Inverness-shire, which he undertook on Telford`s recommendation, whilst rector of Inverness Academy, for the parliamentary commission appointed to fix the county boundaries of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.20
Scope and Contents
The copy is in Nimmo’s own hand, written up in the form of a journal, from the notes which he took in his pocket-book whilst engaged upon the survey. It is written on the rectos of the leaves, the versos being left for maps (folios 11 verso, 12 verso), notes, bearings, and additions to the text. It appears to be incomplete, for it ends rather abruptly (folio 50). It is followed by an explanatory letter to John Rickman, who at the time was secretary to the commissions for making roads and...
Dates:
1806.
Correspondence and papers of Professor Sir Robert Grieve.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10922
Dates:
1939-1988.
Microfilm of drafts of parts of volume 2 and volume 4, chapters 1-7 of ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.135-136
Dates:
[1799, or after-1822, or after.]
Microfilm of drafts of works of George Chalmers; and, papers of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.137
Dates:
[1811, or after]-1826.
Papers of Christopher Fyfe.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10669
Scope and Contents
Concer planning matters, community involvement and amenity groups in central Edinburgh.
Dates:
1970-1992.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.8.1.4-8.1.10
Dates:
1794, or after-1822, or after.
Papers of Yes Tweeddale and Women for Independence Scottish Borders, pro-independence campaign groups active during the Scottish Independence Referendum campaign 2014.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13615
Dates:
2013-2014.
Topographical and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates:
Circa 1692-1709, and undated.
Volume of topographical surveys.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume (somewhat out of order) are as follows:(i) a report of a survey of Loch Broom made in July 1793 (folio 1);(ii) a report, addressed to John Rennie, of the survey of Loch Bay made in May 1793 by John Baine (folio 23) which was given in to the Highland Society; (iii) John Mackenzie`s letter, 1798, forwarding the reports (folio 53);(iv) a copy of a report by Thomas Telford to Nicholas Vansittart, then secretary of the...
Dates:
1793-1801.