National Museums Scotland

Library Special Collections

Former Museum Staff

Thomas Archer	2 boxes
A.S. Clarke	1 box
Alexander Robert Hutchison	2 boxes
Alexander C Stephen	1 file
Traquair, Ramsay H (1840-1912)	2 boxes, 2 files

Thomas Archer Director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland and Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art from 1860-85. Extent: 2 boxes
Box 1	1863	Passport for Thomas Archer, given by The Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh.
	1886	Obituary, reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; 2 copies
	1866	Small press-cuttings book containing account of the inauguration of Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art
	1866-1885	Scrapbook, containing cuttings etc
	1871-1885	Scrapbook, containing cuttings etc
	1880	Letter-book for the Edinburgh Committee of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science AGM, 1880. Archer served as ‘one of the general secretaries’ of the Committee.
Box 2	1876	Large scrapbook containing cuttings etc associated with Philadelphia exhibition

A S Clarke Keeper of the Royal Scottish Museum (joined staff in 1954) Extent: 1 box
Box 1	c. 1875-1935	Files containing various RSM publications, mainly guides to the collections of different dates
	1956-1966	File containing cuttings about the museum
	n.d.	File marked "History of Museum", containing: page of ms notes on Walker papers notes on Bulloch's Museum
	n.d.	Typescript copy "Memorial for Mr Alexander Weir"
	n.d.	Typescript list of “Prof. Walker's specimens still extant” [Rev. Dr. Walker, Prof of Natural History , at Edinburgh University, late 18th century]
	n.d.	Ms "copy of an entry in the notebook of Prof P G Tait"
	1864	Offprint On Literary and Scientific Studies in Connexion with Medicine by J H Balfour
	n.d.	Page from ?Edinburgh University Student Handbook on Students' Representative Council
	n.d.	Ms notes on "Specimens in Edinburgh Museum"
	1955	Letter from Librarian, Nature Conservancy, to Sir William Kinnear
	1939-1940	Notebook marked "grant in aid". Contains list of stores etc received at Blackness Castle from RSM
	n.d.	Typescript history of Natural History Department, with list of staff and donors, by A C Stephen. Also, a similar but anonymous typescript history of Natural History department (by Stephen too?)
	n.d.	Ms notes on Natural History staff

Alexander Robert Hutchieson Papers of Alexander Robert Hutchieson, Keeper of the Department of Technology, Royal Scottish Museum, from 1934 to 1957. Extent: 2 boxes
Number	Description	Date
ARH 1	Papers concerning Hutchieson’s career. They include a letter from Professor T. Hudson Beare of Edinburgh University, 1925, outlining Hutchieson’s career and recommending him for the post of Assistant in the Department of Technology, RSM. 13 items.	1913-58, n.d.
ARH 2	Two plans of steam driven air compressors by G. & J. Weir Ltd, Cathcart, three advertisements for their compressors and two photographs. 7 items.	1925, 1934, 1949, n.d.
ARH 3	Diagram of the gearing for a predictor. 1 sheet.	n.d.
ARH 4	Cuttings and a paper sample relating to a lecture by Hutchieson on ‘the Romance of paper.’ 4 items.	1933
ARH 5	Copy with MS corrections of Hutchieson’s lecture, ‘Paper – the background of print’ in the Edinburgh Journal of Science, Technology and Photographic Art (April, 1936), and two copies of a summary of the lecture in the World’s Paper Trade Review (Feb. 1936). 3 items.	1936
ARH 6	Papers relating to lectures by Hutchieson on early coal mining and steel making. 3 items.	1946, 1950-51
ARH 7	Pages from a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings. 16 folios.	1922-28
ARH 8	Loose newspaper cuttings and other items. 15 items.	1930-57, n.d.
ARH 9	Printed cartoons relating to engineering; one with a tracing as a design for a Christmas card. 4 items.	1947, 1949
ARH 10	Typescript with MS corrections of ‘Unexpurgated story of the Technological Department’ by Hutchieson. 7 folios.	1953
ARH 11	Copies of two photographs taken in the workshop of the Royal Scottish Museum.	n.d.
ARH 12	Typescript guide to the Hall of Shipping.	n.d.
ARH 13	Off-prints of articles by Hutchieson. 6 items.	1948-49, 1954, n.d.
ARH 14	Album of newspaper cuttings and other items.	1926-55
ARH 15	“Industrial researches in a quest for power, 1922-1952.” Typescript thesis for DSc with numerous inserted items.	1952
ARH 16	Carbon copy of the text of ARH 15, but with only three of the inserted articles.	1952

Dr Alexander C Stephen Keeper, Natural History Department, 1935- Extent: 1 file
	1953-1954	File of correspondence between Averil Lysaght, British Museum, and Dr Stephen, on drawings by William Anderson of Cook's voyage.

Ramsay H Traquair 1840-1912 Keeper of Natural History Collections, RSM, 1873-1906 Extent: 2 boxes, 2 files
Box 1	1882,1899,nd	Three letters
	1874-1905	Wet-copy letterbook (with modern index)
	1911	Ms copy of Poissons Wealdiens de Bernissait
Box 2	1910, 1936	Plates and list of plates made for Dr Traquair, with letter from publishers
	n.d.	Photographs of various fossils
	n.d.	Fish and fossil drawings, unsigned and undated
	n.d.	Two fossil drawings
	n.d.	Fish and fossil drawings, unsigned and undated. Also programme of lectures at Royal College of Science for Ireland, session 1869-1870, to be given by Ramsay H Traquair, Professor of Zoology
	1871, nd	Fossil drawings by William Dinning and J Green
	n.d.	Fossil drawings by Phoebe A Traquair
	n.d.	Fossil drawings by R H Traquair
	1875, 1878, 1883, 1891, 1893	Fossil drawings by R H Traquair (dated)
	various	Ten files containing fossil drawings etc by R H and Phoebe A Traquair, with note of publication in which they appeared (reliability of this information not guaranteed)
	n.d.	Typescript labels from exhibition on Traquair held by Edinburgh Geological Society. Includes some biographical information
File	n.d.	Two outsize folders containing one fossil fish drawing N H Dept accession number 1922.116, Library accession number 15217
File	1886-1889	File containing photocopies of correspondence between R H Traquair and Prof J S Newberry supplied by the American Museum of Natural History File containing index to Traquair's letterbook

Last updated: November 2022