Ivanhoe in Belgium TAGS: Corson Collection | Sir Walter Scott Last weekend I was in Leuven at the Annual Conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE), where I’d been invited to give a paper on translations …Continue reading →

FAE Crew’s Off-Prints (1814-1940) TAGS: animal genetics | biology | birds | human genetics In addition to the off-prints of the various past organizations that made up the Roslin Institute, we have FAE Crew’s collection.  The majority of the off-prints in his collection, found …Continue reading →

Ars Anatomica- back from the dead! The image collection associated with the Ars Anatomica (Imaging the Renaissance Body) project has finally been restored into the LUNA image service in all its glory, here. This project was …Continue reading →

‘Encounters of a mathematician’… TAGS: Berlin | Centre for Research Collections | Edinburgh University Library | Edinburgh University Library Special Collections | Holocaust | mathematics | music | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson | University of Berlin | University of Edinburgh | University of Manchester | University of St Andrews | University of Sussex | Walter Ledermann For the last few weeks, I have been cataloguing the papers of mathematician, Walter Ledermann (1911-2009).  The collection largely composes of highly mathematical letters from Thomson to Ledermann.  Having the …Continue reading →

‘To sow the seeds of a new science…’ Happy Birthday James Cossar Ewart TAGS: birthday | bungalow | craigybield | Edinburgh | f.a.e crew | genetics | institute of animal genetics | james cossar ewart | penicuik The name of James Cossar Ewart (1851-1933) has featured regularly in this blog over the past year or so, but we wish him a happy 163rd birthday for tomorrow (26th November). …Continue reading →

Wallace on War: WWI Images in the Roslin Glass Slides Collection TAGS: animals in war | political cartoons | WWI In a previous post, I wrote about Professor Robert Wallace, (1853 – 1939), who taught Scientific Agriculture and Rural Economy at the University of Edinburgh and how many of the glass …Continue reading →

‘Who is that chap with the terrific head?!’ TAGS: CRC | Edinburgh University Special Collections | Hugh MacDiarmid | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson | R H Westwater | Robert Heriot Westwater Robert Heriot Westwater’s most famous portrait is probably that of Christopher Murray Grieve (more widely known by his nom de plume,  Hugh McDiarmid!).  But Westwater also painted two very different …Continue reading →

Remembering Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire (1879-1915) As today is Remembrance Day, it seems a fitting time to commemorate an early geneticist whose achievements were cut short by war. Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire (1879-1915) was appointed to the …Continue reading →

ASCUS talk: Genetics in the Archives: Inspiring New Art TAGS: Archives | artwork | epigenetics | genetics   Another way we promote the project is by giving talks and last Wednesday we had the exciting opportunity to collaborate with both ASCUS: the Art and Science Collaborative and …Continue reading →

Kirsty Bailey – October 2013 Norman Dott Project Volunteer From March 2013 I have been volunteering on the Norman Dott project, cataloguing patient case notes using Encoded Archival Description (EAD) …Continue reading →