Echoes from the vault
The University Library’s Special Collections blog highlights items from the collections to explore their past and context.
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We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) last year were…
Date 18 January 2022
Category Rare Book Collection
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) last year were…
Date 14 January 2022
Category Rare Book Collection
For the final image, we are back to the St Andrews coastline on a snowy day c.1990. This image is from the University Photography…
Date 25 December 2021
Category Advent Calendar
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December 24 – Sowerby’s A conchological manual
George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884) came from an extended family of natural historians, illustrators and conchologists. The Thesaurus Conchyliorum, a comprehensive work on molluscs, was started by George Sowerby…
December 23 – The white whale, c.1837
Already featured in this blog series, The Naturalist’s Library is a series of natural history volumes edited by Sir William Jardine and published between 1833 and 1843 by Edinburgh based printers, William Home Lizars.…
December 22 – Watercolours of the Norway coast, 1851
James David Forbes (1809-1868) was a Scottish scientist and traveller, Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University 1833-1859 and Principal of the United College, St Andrews from 1859 to 1868. In 1851,…