{"id":997,"date":"2014-02-24T10:07:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T10:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/?p=997"},"modified":"2014-02-24T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T10:07:50","slug":"printed-material-highlights-from-the-roslin-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/2014\/02\/24\/printed-material-highlights-from-the-roslin-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Printed Material Highlights from the Roslin Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

With phase I of the Towards Dolly project ending for me, the Rare Books Cataloguer, I thought to look back over the material I\u2019ve worked with and to highlight a few of my favourites from the three different mediums \u2013 offprints, rare books and glass plate slides. One of the most interesting things I found when cataloguing this material was the range of topics of interest \u2013 the geneticists collected a wide-range of subjects from specifically dealing with animal genetics to ethnography and\u00a0 botany that opens this material to a variety of researchers.<\/p>\n

In the offprint series the two –\u00a0out of thousands –\u00a0that I\u2019d like to feature are:<\/p>\n

\"RoslinOffprintDollyUpdate\"<\/a>From the Roslin Institute offprints, Harry D. Griffin’s article, Update on Dolly and nuclear transfer<\/em>, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh: Annual Report from 1 April 97 to 31 March 98, (GB237 Coll-1362\/4\/1848) which discusses the advances in nuclear transfer technology a year after Dolly, the sheep’s birth.<\/p>\n

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\"CrewOffprintWJBryan\"<\/a>From the FAE Crew offprint series, William Jennings Bryan’s closing argument in the Scopes evolution case in Tennessee from 1925.\u00a0(GB 237 Coll-1496\/33 – General Biology 2). Bryan was the prosecuting attorney in the ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ who argued against the teaching of evolution in schools with Clarence Darrow for the defence.<\/p>\n

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Two from the rare book collection:<\/p>\n

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The beautifully illustrated\u00a0cover contains an interesting map, text and illustrations of the Chinese Langshan fowl in A. C. Croad’s book, The Langshan fowl: history and characteristics<\/em> from 1899. (Roslin.S.10)<\/p>\n

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\"Roslin_S_50-58_7\"<\/a>Another beautifully illustrated\u00a0cover, is a favourite of mine from\u00a0the nine volume series, The horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding training and management<\/em>, 1905 (Roslin.S.50). Some of the volumes have pop-up style inserts showing the physiology of hooves and mouths layer-by-layer.<\/p>\n

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And two from the glass plate slides collection:<\/p>\n

\"Ostriches<\/a>This is one of my absolute favourites from the Roslin glass plate slides collection simply for its oddity –\u00a0ostriches and pigs in a field of pumpkins with farm houses in the background in the early 20th century. (Coll-1434\/1177).<\/p>\n

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\"Coffee<\/a>Coffee is a passion of mine and so I was thrilled to find this image of a coffee ranch in Vera Cruz, Mexico in the early 20th century. The image shows a family standing in front of their thatched hut, a man on a horse and two men carrying coffee bean baskets on their back with trees and bushes in the background. (Coll-1434\/1103.<\/p>\n

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Each of these are personal favourites, as well as being a representative sample of the diversity of the collection. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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