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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A Voyage round Great Britain is the work of writer Richard Ayton and artist William Daniell. The eight volume work documents their travels…
Date 8 December 2021
Category Advent Calendar
This cute fella is from Salviani’s Aquatilium animalium historiae. Hippolito Salviani (1514-1572) published Aquatilium animalium historiae…
Date 7 December 2021
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The Rock and Spindle, a well-known rock formation at the eastern edge of the St Andrews bay and a feature of the local coastline, was…
Date 6 December 2021
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December 5 – The natural history of the amphibious carnivora, 1839
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. This engraving of the walrus is taken…
December 4 – Margaret Scott Gatty, Seaweed, c.1850-1880
Margaret Scott Gatty, a children’s author and writer on marine biology, published British Sea Weeds in 1863. In the Libraries and Museums collections are some of Gatty’s albums of marine botanical specimens, such as…
December 3- Isle of May
From the G. Allan Little Scottish Photographic Collection, an image of gulls on the Isle of May, c.1970 (ID: GAL-2-49-B). The Isle of May in the Firth of Forth is a nature reserve famous for sea-birds. Visitors can…