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Coll-1434/32
1870s-1930s
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh)
Photograph of a termite or ant hill broken by an anteater or ant-bear with Karoo bushes in the background in the early 20th century.
Coll-1434/52
Image of eleven insects with abnormalities.
Coll-97/CW89
1887
Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland)
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. …
Coll-203/A1/26
June 1829 - June 1829
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist)
This brown leather notebook contains brief notes of wastage of cliffs along coast of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk. There is a list of Aix insects p.42. …
Coll-203/A1/15
14 September 1828 - 9 October 1828
This notebook, with marbled brown covers, documents Lyell's trip from Verona to Florence, Italy. …
