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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, volume 11: Inverness-shire, Ross-shire, Orkney., 1785-1823, undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(xi)
Scope and Contents

Folios 289r-290v contain Gaelic verses headed 'the Abbot of Fearn's advice to his foster son'. The verses (7 quatrains) and English translation form part of notes, 1815, written for Hutton by Rev. Hugh Ross, minister of Fearn.

Dates: 1785-1823, undated.

Diary, 1828-1830, of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10702
Scope and Contents

Includes colour sketches and concerns hunting expeditions in India.

With a letter, 1839, of Graham from India to his sister, Mrs Anna Calderwood.

Dates: 1828-1839.

Folder containing loose sketches by Eric Reeve, undated

 File
Identifier: Acc.14390 Box 9
Scope and Contents

Mediums include pen, pencil, and watercolour, while subject matter includes landscapes, nature, buildings and interiors, character studies, object studies, animal studies, and precise animal anatomy studies. File also includes one mixed-medium drawing of a couple by 'John'.

Dates: undated

Four scrapbooks of Admiral Lord Mark Kerr.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9527
Scope and Contents

Contains watercolours and pen and pencil sketches, mostly grotesques and cartoons but with some landscape and architectural drawings.

Dates: circa 1815-1840.

‘Institutionum Chemicarum Pars Prima`; a treatise on chemistry in two parts, including comments on other writers on the subject.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.6
Scope and Contents

Mention is made of Nicolas Lemery`s work, published in Paris, `hoc Anno 1713` (folio 10 verso). There are a few small pencil sketches of pieces of equipment, and the work is followed by an index.

Dates: 1713.