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Paper on investigations connected with mould developing on cheeses by T. A. Coward
8 typed leaves, 210 x 320mm of experimental notes on investigations connected with mould developing cheeses. The paper demonstrates experiments with various moulds/yeasts and the resultant cheese types. Refers to Raulin mixture and Penicillium glaucum. Conclusion is added to show results after 2 years.
Coward, T.A. B.Sc.
•Memoir of Dr Thomas Charles Hope, Late Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh by Thomas Stewart Traill (from Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. xvi, part iv; 1848
•Copy of letters to Sir J.E. Smith, dated January 1784 – May 1785 filed under “Smith, JE.”
Hope, Dr. Thomas Charles
Sir Bernard Augustus Keen Lecture Notes
Folder containing a series of six lectures on ‘Soil’ at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. Starting on 3rd February 1920 and ending on the 9th of March 1920. (A series of 6 lectures of which the second is missing) No lectures had been given on this subject in UK since 1896. Therefore timely to bring up to date the science of soil physics.
Keen, Sir Bernard Augustus
Scottish Natural History Society Photograph Album
1 photograph album showing the range of activities of the Scottish Natural History Society at the end of the 1890s.
Edinburgh Natural History Society
Various correspondence Captain George Sherriff
Various correspondence Major George Sherriff
Various correspondence Frank Ludlow/ William Wright Smith
George Taylor/George Sherriff Letters
W. Wright Smith/George Sherriff Letters
Box 1 - Photographs attributed to G. Sherriff 'Primulaceae (A-K) Tibet and Bhutan'
