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…
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…
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…
Georg Eberhard Rumphius, or Rumpf, was a German-born botanist born in 1627. He was employed by the Dutch East India Company and sent to the Maluku Islands, Indonesia. Although a merchant he was given leave to study the…
This year’s Advent calendar takes the theme of oceans and coastlines, in support of the Dive In! Protecting Our Ocean exhibition at the Wardlaw Museum – an exploration of our ocean, the threats it faces and what you…
The University Libraries have recently purchased access to British Library Newspapers parts III-V to add to parts I&II which we already had, to give complete access to all of the content available. British Library…
If you love reading and want to share book suggestions and thoughts on what you are reading now, join the Libraries & Museums Reading Lunch. We will get together once a month on a Thursday from 1-2pm. The first 15 new…
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) last year were again asked to submit a blog post as part of their course. So here is the first of a…
In the next part of the series of blog posts about the Archive of European intellectual life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at the papers of Nicholas Tindal Phillipson (1937-2018). The archival papers of…
To mark World Menopause Day, staff from the University Libraries have put together a list of books, ebooks and journal articles from our collections. Pre-Menopause, Menopause and Beyond. Volume 5: Frontiers in…