Diagrams.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Graphic designs that explain rather than represent. (AAT).
Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript from Perth Academy containing material on hydrostatics, pneumatics and optics., 1787.
Item
Identifier: MS.14296
Manuscript from Perth Academy containing notes and exercises on astronomy., 1783, 1786-1787.
Item
Identifier: MS.14295
Manuscript from Perth Academy containing notes and exercises on spherical geometry and trigonometry, and algebra., 1787.
Item
Identifier: MS.14294
Manuscript of chapters 1-3 of ‘Thermography’ by John Francis Campbell., 1883.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.6
Scope and Contents
The volume begins with notes and correspondence concerning the publication of the work. The letters are mainly to Campbell from the printers, with several from other correspondents including Sir George W Dasent and Sir Henry E Roscoe, 1883.
There are several rough drawings and diagrams accompanying the text.
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.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, being a collection mainly of his geological observations while on his travels from July 1862 to November 1863, including extracts from earlier journals., 1862-1865.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.5.13-50.6.1
Scope and Contents
On the whole the manuscript and printed versions correspond.
Dates:
1862-1865.
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.
Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, chapters 43-58., 1862-1865.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.1
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains the preface to the first volume (folio 465) and additional material at the end which appears not to have been published. Rough diagrams illustrate the text and there are copies of Campbell`s ‘On a New Self-Registering Sun-Dial’ (folio 396) and ‘A Method of Converting Collodion Negatives into Positives by Heat’ (folio 401), together with proofs of the index and a list of illustrations to ‘Frost and Fire’ inserted at the back of the manuscript.There is also...
Dates:
1862-1865.
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.
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Manuscript of ‘Frost and Fire’ by John Francis Campbell, being a collection mainly of his geological observations while on his travels from July 1862 to November 1863, including extracts from earlier journals.
Manuscripts from Perth Academy containing notes and exercises in mathematics, astronomy and physics.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14294-14296
Scope and Contents
All three volumes are illustrated with pen and wash diagrams and sketches.
MS.14296 is initialled ‘I M’ by the compiler (folio 91).
Dates:
1783, 1786-1787.
Material concerning a corn-mill of Norse type at Loch Ordais, South Bragar, Lewis, the outcome of a project by the pupils of Leurbost J S School., 1968.
File
Identifier: MS.14956, folios 4-12
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Newspaper cutting describing the project (folio 4);(ii) Diagrams of mill with Gaelic terms (folio 5);(iii) Malcolm Mackay (Calum Ruairidh), Bragar. “‘Se fath mo mhulad mar chaidh a’ mhuilinn”, 9 quatrains (folio 7);(iv) “Muileann na Criadha aig iochdair an òis”, 8 quatrains (folio 8);(v) “A’ mhuileann a dh’fhàgadh ‘na tàmh bho chionn fhada”, 8 quatrains (folio 9);(vi) Description of mill...
Dates:
1968.
Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 1., [?2nd half of 18th century-?early 20th century.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1398-1417
Dates:
[?2nd half of 18th century-?early 20th century.]
Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 1., 1795-1821.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1413
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Notebook, 1803, of John Rennie concerning machinery for sugar-mills in Trinidad and Guyana (MS.19817);Correspondence, papers, and diagrams, 1805-1813, of John Rennie concerning mills, chiefly for sugar, for Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Demerara (Guyana) (MS.19818);Correspondence, papers, and diagrams, 1814-1821, of John Rennie concerning mills, chiefly for sugar, for Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Demerara (Guyana) (MS.19819);...
Dates:
1795-1821.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures, from the National Library of Scotland. Parts 1-2 (Adam Matthew, 2003).
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Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 1.
Microfilm of journal kept by David Livingston from August 1862 to February 1863, describing the ascent of the rivers Rovuma and Shire, with accounts of the country and people passed; illustrated with diagrams and sketches.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.55
Dates:
1862-1863.
Microfilm of notebook containing a detailed account, including many diagrams, of the construction of Waterloo Bridge, compiled by George Rennie.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1009
Dates:
1817.
Minute book of the Edinburgh Skating Club., 1889-1966.
Item
Identifier: MS.24642
Scope and Contents
The minute book records regular meetings up to 1939, followed by the Secretary's memorandum of 1966 recommending the winding up of the club and the disposal of its property, with members' assents thereto (folios 78-82).
Additional material includes club songs for 1842 and 1843 (folios 136-137); the Glasgow Skating Club Rules, 1875; ‘The Edinburgh Skating Club, with diagrams of figures and a list of members’, (Edinburgh, 1875) (folios 138-150); ‘Skating diagrams’ by Charles A Stevenson, 1881...
Dates:
1889-1966.
Miscellaneous accounts and papers relating to the estates of the Douglas family of Springwood Park., 1754-1915, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8091
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts, 1787-1910 (folio 1);
(ii) 'Acct. of the length of the New March Dyke between Ancrum & Langnewton', 1767 (folio 68);
(iii) 'A scheme for dividing Roxburgh Kirk', 1754 (folio 69);
(iv) Papers, 1769-1800, concerning the stipend of the minister of Roxburgh (folio 71);
(v) Copy of minutes, 1862-1863, of meetings of the heritors of the parish of Ancrum (folio 76);
(vi) Information (printed), 1812, on the fisheries of the river Tweed in the...
Dates:
1754-1915, undated.
Miscellaneous notes by Patrick Geddes and others, chiefly for lectures., 1870-1946, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10619-10631
Miscellaneous notes, diagrams, and other papers of and, relating to Sir Patrick Geddes., 1912-1924, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19998
Scope and Contents
Included is material on botany, sociology, the Edinburgh Masque of Learning, 1912 (folio 42), and the Scots and Indian Colleges, Montpellier, undated (folio 64).
Dates:
1912-1924, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Patrick Geddes., 1900-1940, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19997-19999
Dates:
1900-1940, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Patrick and Arthur Geddes., 1891-1954, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19284
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Miscellaneous papers of Patrick Geddes, 1891-1925, undated, including material on university education (folio 1), and on the Darjeeling Summer School of 1917 (folio 10); also verse of 1916-1917 (folio 17);
(ii) Miscellaneous papers of Arthur Geddes, 1919-1954, undated, including verse and notes on his health and daily routine (folio 34).
Dates:
1891-1954, undated.
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.
'Navigation a treatise. by David Ewen in Saltcoats in the 13th year of my age ... 1732', with numerous detailed diagrams.
File
Identifier: MS.9593
Dates:
1732.
Notebook containing a detailed account, including many diagrams, of the construction of Waterloo Bridge, compiled by George Rennie., 1817.
Item
Identifier: MS.19777
Notebook containing descriptions with many rough diagrams of mills, bridges etc., visited by John Rennie in the course of a journey through the south of Scotland and England as far south as Birmingham., 1784.
Item
Identifier: MS.19831
Notebook from Perth Academy containing material on arithmetic, book-keeping, trigonometry and navigation., 1828.
Item
Identifier: MS.14293
Dates:
1828.