‘Riding High on a Spiral’ This Friday 25 April is ‘DNA Day’, an international celebration of the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, …Continue reading →

Alan Davie 1920 – 2014 TAGS: Alan Davie | Archives | art | Edinburgh College of Art We were very sad to hear the news about the death of Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) alumnus and fellow, Alan Davie. The close connection between Davie and ECA over …Continue reading →

Lab Books TAGS: a.n. whitehead | c.h. waddington | c.k. ogden | c.p.snow | dualism | I.A. Richards | institute of animal genetics | Literature | nature | two cultures | what scientists read I have recently been reading about the ‘What Scientists Read’ project, which aims to explore the influence of literature and the arts upon scientific thought and practice. The project has …Continue reading →

Picture Perfect! TAGS: drosophila | Edinburgh | genetics | institute of animal genetics | photographs | science | waddington Being lucky, as I am, to work with a wide variety of archival collections relating to the history of animal genetics in Edinburgh, it can be mightily difficult to select …Continue reading →

The Hen Who Made History…Nearly TAGS: alan greenwood | Edinburgh | egg laying | egg production | eggs | eglantine | genetics | institute of animal genetics | L1641 | poultry | poultry breeding | poultry research centre | world record Edinburgh holds a number of world records in genetics and animal breeding, which, considering its historic significance in the history of the science in Britain, is not all that surprising. …Continue reading →

Geoffrey Herbert Beale TAGS: Archives | epigenetics | genetics | geoffrey beale | john innes | malaria | medical research council | paramecium | plasmodium | russia Two weeks ago, when we posted about the Lysenko Controversy in Soviet Russia, mention was made of Geoffrey Beale’s interest in and knowledge of the Russian language and scientific history. …Continue reading →

The Lysenko Controversy: Soviet Genetics and Edinburgh TAGS: 1939 | crew | Edinburgh | genetics | geoffrey beale | internation genetics congress | lysenko | mendel | mendelism | propaganda | russia | soviet | stalin | USSR | vernalisation Britain has been fortunate in the freedom it has enjoyed to carry out scientific research; something which has not always been the case with other parts of the world. The …Continue reading →

Library and University Collections sign up to ArchivesSpace TAGS: Archives | catalogues | information systems development | open source | Special Collections At the end of 2013, the University of Edinburgh’s Library and University Collections (L&UC) became the first institution in the UK and Europe to become members of ArchivesSpace. Built for …Continue reading →

Exhibition Archive: The Model (22/11/13 – 9/12/13) Edinburgh College of Art TAGS: Anatomy | Edinburgh College of Art | Gray's School of Art | The Model The Model, curated by Gordon Brennan (Head of Painting) and Neil Lebeter (Art Collections Curator), brought together models from across University Collections; ranging from Geology, Veterinary Science Anatomy, Music and …Continue reading →

Christmas is nearly here! TAGS: Archives | Christmas | Dancing | ECA | Moray House | Poems | Revel In celebration of the next week’s big event, we thought we’d bring you a sample of some of the festive bits and pieces in our archive collections. As always, the …Continue reading →