|
Reference
|
Description
|
Date
|
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JMS 1
|
General
correspondence
|
|
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JMS 2
|
Robert Jameson and
his family
|
|
|
JMS 3
|
Explorers and
collectors
|
|
|
JMS 4
|
Material for
published articles
|
|
|
JMS 5
|
Material extracted from
different sources
Notes
and extracts taken from archival records and published journals
|
|
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JMS 6
|
Research papers on
different subjects
|
|
|
JMS 7
|
Notebooks
|
|
|
JMS 8
|
Original documents
|
|
|
JMS 9
|
Newspaper cuttings,
photographs and photocopies
|
|
|
JMS 10
|
Printed publications
|
|
|
JMS 11
|
Miscellaneous
papers
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
JMS 1
|
General
correspondence.
Other letters can be found among the various subject files (JMS 2-4 and JMS
6).
|
|
|
JMS 1/1/1-101
|
Letters
sent to Jessie Sweet, with some copies of her outgoing letters. Her original arrangement (alphabetically
by institution or individual correspondent) has been retained.
|
1961-79
|
|
JMS
1/1/1
|
David
Elliston Allen
American
Philosophical Society
Basil
W. Anderson
|
1968-78
1973
1966
|
|
JMS
1/1/2
|
Annals of Science. Correspondence
concerning Sweet’s contributions to the journal.
|
1967-76
|
|
JMS
1/1/3
|
Antiquaries,
Society of (London)
Antiquaries
of Scotland, Society of
John
H. Appleby
Sir
Edward Appleton
|
1964-65
1966
1976
1965
|
|
JMS
1/1/4
|
Helen
Armet, Archivist to the City of Edinburgh
|
1962-68
|
|
JMS
1/1/5
|
C.
Bange
Prof.
William Barr
-
Barry, publisher, New York
|
1973
1975
1976
|
|
JMS
1/1/6
|
Douglas
A. Bassett, National Museum of Wales
Battelle
Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio
Battelle,
Institut, Geneva
Sir
Gavin de Beer
|
1962
1968-74
1961
1966-70
|
|
JMS
1/1/7
|
Belfast
Cathedral
Dr
E. Binder, Museum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva
Blackwood
& Sons, publishers, Edinburgh
Bolton
Museum
R.
Bradshaw, Bristol University
|
1966
1968-70
1974
1978
1968
|
|
JMS
1/1/8
|
Botanical
Museum, Copenhagen
Botanical
Museum, Oslo
R.C.
Boud, University of Leeds
BBC
|
1971-72
1971-72
1979
1972
|
|
JMS
1/1/9
|
Patrick
J. Boylan, Leicester Museums. Material on Hugh Falconer is enclosed.
|
1977
|
|
JMS
1/1/10
|
British
Museum, Director’s Office
|
1966-74
|
|
JMS
1/1/11
|
British
Museum, British and Medieval Antiquities
British
Museum, Ethnography
British
Museum, Greek and Roman Antiquities
|
1964
1964
1964
|
|
JMS
1/1/12
|
British
Museum, Manuscripts
|
1963-74
|
|
JMS
1/1/13
|
British
Museum, Photographic Department
British
Museum, Printed Books
British
Museum, Prints and Drawings
|
1965-69
1969-73
1964-65
|
|
JMS
1/1/14
|
British
Museum, Reading Room
|
1965-71
|
|
JMS
1/1/15
|
British
Museum of Natural History [BMNH]
R.T.W.
Atkins, Librarian
John
F.M. Cannon
W.E.
China
|
1966-70
1964
1964
|
|
JMS
1/1/16
|
BMNH,
G.F. Claringbull
BMNH,
A.G. Couper
|
1961-65
1963-74
|
|
JMS
1/1/17
|
BMNH,
Richard Davis
BMNH,
Phyllis I. Edwards
|
1964
1968-71
|
|
JMS
1/1/18
|
BMNH,
Peter G. Embrey
BMNH,
Francis C. Fraser
|
1962-79
1964-74
|
|
JMS
1/1/19
|
BMNH,
A.G.C. Grandison
BMNH,
Jean Hart
BMNH,
Max H. Hey
BMNH,
Juliet Jewell
|
1966
1964
1964-66
1969
|
|
JMS
1/1/20
|
BMNH,
J.D. Macdonald
BMNH,
A.A. Moss
BMNH,
R.Ross
|
1964
1965-73
1964-72
|
|
JMS
1/1/21
|
BMNH,
M.J. Rowlands, Librarian
|
1966-75
|
|
JMS
1/1/22
|
BMNH,
Alex C. Townsend
BMNH,
Alwyne Wheeler
BMNH,
Errol I.
White
|
1963-64
1969-74
1965
|
|
JMS
1/1/23
|
BMNH,
Peter J.P. Whitehead
BMNH,
John D.H. Wiseman
|
1967-79
1971
|
|
JMS
1/1/24
|
BMNH,
Zoology Department
|
1964-70
|
|
JMS
1/1/25
|
Rev.
T.D. Stewart Brown
David
J. Bryden, Whipple Science Museum
Harold
L. Burstyn
William
F. Bynum, University College, London
|
1963
1970-73
1965
1975
|
|
JMS
1/1/26
|
S.
Caillere, Museum National d’Histoire
Naturelle, Paris
California,
University of
|
1968
1972
|
|
JMS
1/1/27
|
Cambridge,
University of
Margaret
W. Cameron
W.
Campbell Smith
Canterbury,
Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies
|
1963
1967-69
1966-73,
n.y.
1969
|
|
JMS
1/1/28
|
Carnegie
Trust for the Universities of Scotland
|
1963-73
|
|
JMS
1/1/29
|
Rev.
Alec C. Cheyne
Anand
C. Chitnis
Andrew
T. Cluness
|
1968
1968
1963
|
|
JMS
1/1/30
|
M.D.
Crane, Bristol Museum
A.G.
Cross, University of East Anglia
John
O. Crump
|
1976
1976
1976
|
|
JMS
1/1/31
|
Frank
F. Cunningham, University of St Andrews
Customs
and Excise
|
1977-78
1963
|
|
JMS
1/1/32
|
S.
Peter Dance, National Museum of Wales
Prof.
C.F. Davidson
|
1969-70
1965-67
|
|
JMS
1/1/33
|
Gordon
L. Davies, University of Dublin
|
1966-77
|
|
JMS
1/1/34
|
George
E. Davis, University of Edinburgh
Deegan-Photo
Ltd
Justin
B. Delair, Caledonian Land Surveys
Catherine
Dickson
|
1965
1967
1976
1968-69
|
|
JMS
1/1/35
|
Ellison
J. Dickson
Col.
Seton G. Dickson
|
1963-77
1969
|
|
JMS
1/1/36
|
Prof.
Herbert Dingle
Ernest
S. Dodge, Peabody Museum, Salem
Prof.
Gordon Donaldson, University of Edinburgh
|
1965
1974
1969
|
|
JMS
1/1/37
|
Dublin,
Public Records Office
Dumfries,
Burgh Museum
|
1966-68
1963
|
|
JMS
1/1/38
|
Edinburgh,
Central Public Library
|
1965-76
|
|
JMS
1/1/39
|
Edinburgh
University, Charles H. Stewart
Edinburgh
University, Graduates Association
Edinburgh
University, Grant Institute of Geology
Edinburgh
University Library
|
1969
1976
1975-76
1961-77,
n.d.
|
|
JMS
1/1/40
|
Entomology,
Commonwealth Institute of
Victor
A. and Joan Eyles
|
1973
1965-74
|
|
JMS
1/1/41
|
Catherine
P. Fairbairn
Capt.
Alwyne A.C. Farquharson of Invercauld, including
correspondence with the Herald Press and James Reid, photographer.
|
1966
1964-66
|
|
JMS
1/1/42
|
W.V.
Farrar, University of Manchester
George
T. Faust, U.S. Geological Survey
|
1967-68
1966
|
|
JMS
1/1/43
|
Ian
Finlay, Director, Royal Scottish Museum
D.
Flinn, University of Liverpool
J.A.
Ford, General Register Office
|
1965-74
1978
1969
|
|
JMS
1/1/44
|
Trevor
D. Ford, University of Leicester
Daphne
Foskett
|
1965-73,
n.d.
1965-69
|
|
JMS
1/1/45
|
Bergakademie Freiberg
Bergakademie Freiberg, Martin Guntau
Bergakademie Freiberg, K.F. Ludemann
|
1965-70
1967-70,
n.d.
1967
|
|
JMS
1/1/46
|
Bergakademie Freiberg, Bucherei und Archiv.
Correspondence mostly with Walter Schellhas but
including letters to and from Isa Kubach and
Prof. A. Watznauer
|
1964-76
|
|
JMS
1/1/47
|
Bergakademie Freiberg Bucherie und Archiv.
Karl-Fritz Zillmann
|
1966-72
|
|
JMS
1/1/48
|
French
Embassy, London
Peter
Friend, Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge
|
1965
1974
|
|
JMS
1/1/49
|
Geological
Society of London
Geological
Survey, A.W.A. Rushton
|
1967-69
1969
|
|
JMS
1/1/50
|
Glasgow,
Hunterian Museum. W.D. Ian Rolfe
Glasgow,
University of. Helen Brock
|
1975-76
1975-77
|
|
JMS
1/1/51
|
Glasgow,
University of. Jaime Reis
Ian
Gordon, FRCS Ed
J.
Monteith Grant, W.S.
Greenwich,
National Maritime Museum
|
1973
1976
1967
1964-75
|
|
JMS
1/1/52
|
Jacob
W. Gruber, Temple University, Penn.
Ivor
R. Guild, editor of The Scottish
Genealogist
C.
Guillemin
|
1974
1968-69
1963
|
|
JMS
1/1/53
|
A.E.
Gunther
Douglas
Guthrie
Guthrie
Castle
|
1963-69
1964-70
1966
|
|
JMS
1/1/54
|
W.McC. Harrowes
Tom
Henderson, Zetland County Museum
Rosemary
Hewett
Fred
A. Hildebrand, US Geological Survey
|
1962
1967-69
1972
1961
|
|
JMS
1/1/55
|
F.
David Hoeniger, University of Toronto
Kenneth
L. Holmes, Oregon Historical Society
Marjorie
Hooker
Prof.
D.B. Horn, Edinburgh University
Hull,
Guildhall
|
1974
1969
1967-68
1968-69
1966
|
|
JMS
1/1/56
|
Gerd
Ibler
|
1968-69
|
|
JMS
1/1/57
|
India
Office Library
A.G.
Ingram Ltd
Jean
A. Inverarity
|
1967-72
1964
1965
|
|
JMS
1/1/58
|
John
S. Jackson, National Museum of Ireland
J.
Jameson
John
Jameson and Son, Dublin
|
1966
1969
1968-77
|
|
JMS
1/1/59
|
Charles
Jeffrey, Royal Botanic Gardens
J.
Jocelyn
Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore
|
1964
1966-71
1972
|
|
JMS
1/1/60
|
Adrienne
L. Kaeppler, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu
C.
Kluth, University of Karlsruhe
|
1972
1969-70
|
|
JMS
1/1/61
|
Leipzig,
Karl-Marx-Universitat
Leith
Academy
Lerwick
Town Council
Lerwick,
County Library
Christina
Leslie
|
1968
1966,
1973
1967-69
1967-69
1970
|
|
JMS
1/1/62
|
Linnean
Society
Liverpool
Record Office
|
1964-68
1969
|
|
JMS
1/1/63
|
Bari
M. Logan
Malcolm
D.W. Low, Edinburgh University
Averil Lysaght
|
1970
1967
1964
|
|
JMS
1/1/64
|
Bruce
MacBryde
Douglas
McKie, editor of Annals of Science
|
1964-67
1964-67
|
|
JMS
1/1/65
|
David
McKinley, State University of New York
Macmillan
and Co.
Walter
H. Makey, Edinburgh City Archivist
|
1974
1967
1968,
1975
|
|
JMS
1/1/66
|
Manchester
City Art Galleries
T.M.Y.
Manson
L.H.
Mathewson, solicitor, Lerwick
Stuart
Maxwell, National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland
|
1965-66
1967-69
1967
1964-65
|
|
JMS
1/1/67
|
Melville
and Lindesay, W.S.
Mitchell
Library, Glasgow
Richard
E. Moira
Moray,
Earl of
W.C.
Morgan, Geological Survey of Canada
|
1963
1973
1969
1974
1976
|
|
JMS
1/1/68
|
Jack
B. Morrell, University of Bradford
|
1967-74
|
|
JMS
1/1/69
|
Edgar
W. Morse
Johannes
Muller, University Library, Leipzig
John
Brent Musgrave
|
1966-68
1966-67
1974
|
|
JMS
1/1/70
|
Lord
Napier and Ettrick
|
1965
|
|
JMS
1/1/71
|
National
Library of Scotland
National
Museum of Wales
|
1965-76
1972
|
|
JMS
1/1/72
|
National
Portrait Gallery
|
1964-74
|
|
JMS
1/1/73
|
Clifford
M. Nelson
Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Laing Art Gallery
Newcastle
University, New South Wales
J.P.
Nicolas
R.C.
Notman, W.S.
R.H.
Nuttall, University of Strathclyde
|
1966
1966
1965
1965
1962-63
1975
|
|
JMS
1/1/74
|
Wilhelm
Odelberg, Library of the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences
Ohio
University
Alexander
M. Ospovat, Oklahoma State University
Dorinda
Outram, Reading University
|
1965-68
1972
1966-77
1976
|
|
JMS
1/1/75
|
James
Phemister
Roy
Porter
Public
Record Office
|
1964-74
1970-71
1967
|
|
JMS
1/1/76
|
A.R.
Rao, University College of North Wales
P.F.
Rehbock, Johns Hopkins University
Anthony
L. Rice, BMNH
|
1973
1974
1972-75
|
|
JMS
1/1/77
|
Esther
Ross
Ross
Optical Ltd
|
1972-74
1972
|
|
JMS
1/1/78
|
Royal
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Includes correspondence with H.R. Fletcher, D.M.
Henderson and M.V. Mathew.
|
1968-73
|
|
JMS
1/1/79
|
Royal
College of Physicians, London
Royal
College of Surgeons of England
|
1964-66
1964-65
|
|
JMS
1/1/80
|
Royal
Dublin Society
Royal
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
Royal
Horticultural Society
Royal
Irish Academy
|
1966-73
1976
1964
1968
|
|
JMS
1/1/81
|
Royal
Medical Society
Royal
Physical Society, Edinburgh
Royal
Society
|
1966
1965
1964
|
|
JMS
1/1/82
|
Royal
Zoological Society of New South Wales
Martin
J.S. Rudwick, Whipple Science Museum, Cambridge
D.
Rushton, Manchester Museum
Alison
Rutherford
|
1969,
1974
1963-74
1969
1975
|
|
JMS
1/1/83
|
A.
Sandison
Louis
Sandison
William
A.S. Sarjeant, University of Saskatchewan
Mrs
Saunders
|
1967-69
1969-76
1969-76
1965
|
|
JMS
1/1/84
|
Science
Museum, London
Scots
Ancestry Research Society
|
1964-72
1967
|
|
JMS
1/1/85
|
E.L.
Scott
Harold
W. Scott, University of Illinois
Scott
Polar Research Institute
Tom
Scott, photographer
|
1970
1965-68
1965-78
1964-66
|
|
JMS
1/1/86
|
Scottish
National Portrait Gallery
Scottish
Record Office
|
1963-66
1963-69
|
|
JMS
1/1/87
|
Scottish
United Services Museum
Edgar
H. Shackleton
Shetland
Tourist Association
|
1964-66
1975
1967
|
|
JMS
1/1/88
|
John
Sinkankas
Major-General
H.D.W. Sitwell
Somerset
House
Somerville
College, Oxford
|
1967
1964-66
1972
1963
|
|
JMS
1/1/89
|
Irene
M. Spry
Cordelia
Stamp, Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society
Lloyd
W. Staples, University of Oregon
Prof.
Raymond P. Stearns, University of Illinois
Hakan Sterner, Aktiebolaget
Atomenergi Studsvik
|
1967
1974
1968
1965
1973-74
|
|
JMS
1/1/90
|
D.
Alan Stevenson
Prof.
F.H. Stewart, Edinburgh University
James
Stewart, University College, London. Includes newspaper cuttings about
Scottish family papers.
|
1962
1965-73
1968
|
|
JMS
1/1/91
|
T.
Strunz, Technische Universitat, Berlin.
Enclosing obituaries of Rainer Strunz.
F.L.
Sutherland, Queen Victoria Museum, Tasmania
W.E.
Swinton, Massey College, Toronto.
Notes of address only.
|
1971
1965
n.d.
|
|
JMS
1/1/92
|
F.D.
Tamas, Central Institute of Building Research, Budapest
Taylor
& Francis Ltd, printers and publishers
Sir
George Taylor, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
H.F.W.
Taylor, University of Aberdeen
|
1961
1968-70
1965,
1972
1961
|
|
JMS
1/1/93
|
Norman
Tebble, Director of the Royal Scottish Museum
A.W.
Thackray, Whipple Science Museum, Cambridge
John
Thackray, Geological Museum, London
H.
Tillander, Scandinavian Diamond Nomenclature
Committee
S.
Tonserff, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
|
1973
1965
1976
1972
1965
|
|
JMS
1/1/94
|
Hugh
S. Torrens, University of Keele
Patrick
Jameson Torrie
|
1978-79
1963-69
|
|
JMS
1/1/95
|
Rosalind
Trelles
Trinity
House, Leith
T.G.
Vallance, University of Sydney
|
1968
1967
1974
|
|
JMS
1/1/96
|
Charles
D. Waterston, Royal Scottish Museum
Alicia
Webster
Robert
Webster
Westminster
Abbey
Wheldon
& Wesley Ltd, booksellers and publishers
Mrs
D. Whitby
|
1965-67,
n.d.
1968
1966
1964-65
1974
1967
|
|
JMS
1/1/97
|
Prof.
George W. White, University of Illinois. The letters concern Sweet’s biography of Robert Jameson written for the
facsimile reprint of Jameson’s Elements
of Geognosy (1808). Typescripts of White’s
foreword and Sweet’s biography are included. For notes, MSS
and earlier typescripts of this biography, see JMS 4/22-23.
|
1968-77
|
|
JMS
1/1/98
|
Hester
W. White, Court of the Lord Lyon
|
1967-69
|
|
JMS
1/1/99
|
J.
Will, Secretary, General Board of Control for Scotland
Virginia
Wills
Prof.
Leonard G. Wilson, Yale University
|
1962
1966-67
1963,
1966
|
|
JMS
1/1/100
|
Basil
F. Wishart, The Shetland Times
|
1963-69
|
|
JMS
1/1/101
|
R.
Derek Wood
Marie
Wustmann
|
1974
1970
|
|
JMS 1/2
|
Correspondence
resulting from an enquiry about Robert and Andrew Jameson in the Scotsman, the Glasgow Herald and the Daily Telegraph.
|
1967
|
|
JMS 1/3
|
Miscellaneous
correspondence.
|
1938-61,
n.d.
|
|
|
|
|
|
JMS 2
|
Robert Jameson and
his family. Notes and transcripts of correspondence, journals and other material. The originals of the
transcripts in JMS 2/1-2/5 are in
the Pollok-Morris collection in Edinburgh University Library.
|
|
|
JMS 2/1/1-4
|
Material
from Jameson’s autograph book consisting of autographs and letters compiled
by his sister Helen and his niece Catherine.
|
|
|
JMS
2/1/1
|
Typed
transcript of the autograph book, with MS notes.
|
c.1965
|
|
JMS
2/1/2
|
Two
notebooks containing abstracts of the letters and brief notes on the
writers.
|
|
|
JMS
2/1/3
|
MS
draft and typed copy of Sweet’s index to the
autograph book. It includes
cross-references to the notebooks (JMS 2/1/2).
|
1966
|
|
JMS
2/1/4
|
Notes
about individuals in the autograph book.
|
|
|
JMS 2/2/1-8
|
Transcripts
of and notes concerning letters to Jameson. The letters are arranged
alphabetically by individual correspondent.
|
|
|
JMS
2/2/1
|
A-C. Typed transcripts.
|
|
|
JMS
2/2/2
|
D-H. Typed transcripts.
|
|
|
JMS
2/2/3
|
J-N. Typed transcripts.
|
|
|
JMS
2/2/4
|
O-Y. Typed transcripts.
|
|
|
JMS
2/2/5
|
MS
transcripts and translations of letters of Carl C. von Leonhard to Jameson,
1815-16. Also
a MS transcript of a letter from Bonn University, 1854.
|
|
|
JMS
2/2/6
|
Four
notebooks containing abstracts of the letters and some brief notes on the
writers.
|
1963-74
|
|
JMS
2/2/7
|
MS
and typescript indexes to JMS 2/2/6.
|
|
|
JMS
2/2/8
|
MS
notes on some of the correspondents.
|
|
|
JMS 2/3/1-6
|
Material
copied from Jameson’s letterbooks.
|
|
|
JMS
2/3/1
|
Typed
transcripts of various lists and accounts in the letterbook
of 1815-18.
|
|
|
JMS
2/3/2
|
Typed
transcript of Jameson’s letterbook and diary,
1840-45. It covers the period
1840-Jan. 1843 only.
|
|
|
JMS
2/3/3
|
MS
abstracts and notes from the letterbook of 1840-45.
|
|
|
JMS
2/3/4
|
MS
abstracts of entries in the letterbook of
1840-45, covering Jan. – Nov. 1843 only.
|
|
|
JMS
2/3/5
|
Incomplete
MS index to the letterbook of 1840-45.
|
|
|
JMS
2/3/6
|
Miscellaneous
notes from the letterbook of 1840-45.
|
|
|
JMS 2/4/1-4
|
Material
concerning the purchase of the Dufresne collection of natural history for
the University of Edinburgh in 1818-19.
|
|
|
JMS
2/4/1
|
Typed
transcripts of correspondence with Louis Dufresne and others concerning the
collection.
|
|
|
JMS
2/4/2
|
Typed
extracts from the Senate Minutes, University of Edinburgh, concerning the
Dufresne collection, 1818-1822.
|
|
|
JMS
2/4/3
|
Indexes
to the Dufresne letters. Two MS
drafts and one typescript.
|
|
|
JMS
2/4/4
|
MS
notes concerning the Dufresne and other collections.
|
|
|
JMS 2/5
|
Typed
transcripts of correspondence with William Bullock and others concerning
his collection, 1819. Also a list of specimens in
Bullock’s museum and extracts from the sale catalogue. Sweet made use of
this material in her article “William Bullock’s collection and the
University of Edinburgh, 1819” (Annals
of Science 26 no.1 (1970), pp.23-32.
|
|
|
JMS 2/6
|
Typed
transcripts and notes concerning Jameson’s letters to John Murray, 1825-29.
The original letters are in Edinburgh University Library, MS Gen. 1971/2.
|
|
|
JMS 2/7/1-9
|
Transcripts
and other material concerning Jameson’s correspondence in Edinburgh
University Archives.
|
|
|
JMS
2/7/1-3
|
Letters
to Jameson, arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
|
|
|
JMS
2/7/1
|
A-H. Typed transcripts.
|
|
|
JMS
2/7/2
|
J-W. Typed transcripts.
|
|
|
JMS
2/7/3
|
Supplementary
correspondence. Typed transcripts.
|
|
|
JMS
2/7/4
|
MS
transcripts of letters in German from J. Lampert and others.
|
|
|
JMS
2/7/5
|
Typescript
and MS drafts of indexes to the letters and supplementary correspondence. Also MS drafts of indexes of geological and natural
history specimens in the Royal Scottish Museum mentioned in the letters and
supplementary correspondence.
|
|
|
JMS
2/7/6
|
Index
to the letters and supplementary correspondence. Typescript with MS
corrections.
|
|
|
JMS
2/7/7-9
|
Three
notebooks containing abstracts of the letters and supplementary
correspondence. JMS 2/7/7 also
includes some genealogical notes on the Jameson family.
|
1961
|
|
JMS 2/7/10
|
Transcript
of Jameson’s letterbook (Edinburgh University
Library Dc.7.136) in which he summarised his correspondence from December
1792 – August 1794. Typescript with
MS corrections.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/1-6
|
Material
concerning Jameson’s journals in Edinburgh University Library.
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/1
|
Transcript
of Jameson’s journal of his visit to London, August – October 1793
(Edinburgh University Library Dc.5.34). Typescript with MS annotations.
|
1962
|
|
JMS
2/8/2
|
MS
and typescript indexes to Jameson’s journal of 1793.
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/3
|
Transcript
of Jameson’s journal of his journey to Arran and Ireland in 1797 (Edinburgh
University Library Dc.7.126). Two annotated
typescripts; also a MS index. Parts of the
transcript were used in Sweet’s article “Robert
Jameson’s Irish journal, 1797” (Annals
of Science 23(2), June 1967, 97-126).
|
1962
|
|
JMS
2/8/4
|
Extracts
from Jameson’s journal of a tour through the Hebrides, May-August 1798
(Edinburgh University Library Dc.7.127-128). Annotated typescript and MS index.
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/5
|
Extracts
from Jameson’s journal of a tour through the Orkney islands, June-July 1799
(Edinburgh University Library Dc.7.130). Annotated typescript.
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/6
|
Notes
from Jameson’s journal on a visit to Arran ,
August 1799 (Edinburgh University Library Dc.7.129). Annotated typescript.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/7
|
Notes
and extracts from Jameson’s MS “A mineralogical description of the county
of Dumfries”, 1802 (Edinburgh University Library Dc.7.130). Annotated
typescript.
|
1962
|
|
JMS 2/8/8
|
Transcript
of the first volume of Jameson’s MS “Mineralogical notes of walks in Fife,
1811” (Edinburgh University Library Dc.7.131). Annotated typescript.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/9
|
Transcript
of Jameson’s MS “Remarks on Chenevix”, c.1809 (Edinburgh University
Archives, Geology and Mineralogy, Jameson Papers Box 2, Gen. 122).
Annotated typescript.
|
1967
|
|
JMS 2/8/10/1-4
|
Notes
and transcripts of Jameson’s correspondence in Edinburgh University, Grant
Institute of Geology,
c.1804-38.
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/10/1-2
|
Two
notebooks containing summaries of the letters, arranged alphabetically by
correspondent, and notes on the contents and people named.
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/10/1
|
Adam-Leslie.
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/10/2
|
Levett-Witham.
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/10/3
|
Index
to the names in JMS 2/8/10/1-2. MS.
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/10/4
|
Transcript
of the letters, arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Typescript with
MS corrections and notes.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/11
|
Letters
from and to Jameson in the National Library of Scotland, c.1798-1853. MS and
typed transcripts with some annotations.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/12
|
Correspondence
of and concerning Jameson in the British Museum, the British Museum of Natural
History and the Geological Society of London, c.1801-54. Typescripts with
MS annotations.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/13
|
Correspondence
of Jameson in unidentified locations, 1815-54. Most of the letters are in
French or German. Typescripts with a few MS annotations.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/14
|
Transcripts
and translations of letters of Professor Friedrich Mohs, geologist
and mineralogist, to Jameson, 1816-35. Manuscripts and annotated
typescripts. The location of the originals is not given.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/15
|
Typed
transcripts of miscellaneous notes by Jameson.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/16
|
Typed
list of contents of Jameson’s papers, boxes 1-11, in Edinburgh University
Archives.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/17
|
Typescript
of “I knew Jameson.” A collection of reminiscences and other extracts
concerning Jameson, taken from various printed works. Also
some manuscript notes from “I knew Jameson.”
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/18
|
Miscellaneous
papers concerning Jameson. MS notes,
typescripts and printed material.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/19
|
Lists
of Jameson’s students, 1811-18 and 1850.
MSS and annotated typescripts.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/20
|
Bibliography
of Jameson’s published works. Typescript on paper slips.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/21-25
|
Papers
of Laurence Jameson, Robert Jameson’s nephew, relating to his biography of
his uncle.
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/21
|
Printed
copy of Laurence Jameson, Biographical
memoir of the late Professor Jameson, published in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal,
July 1854. Also
a list of papers read to the Edinburgh Natural History Society by Robert
Jameson. Annotated typescript.
|
1854
|
|
JMS
2/8/22-23
|
Extracts
from Laurence Jameson’s Notes for a biography of his uncle, Sections I and
II. The extracts were taken from the original, watermarked 1857, in
Edinburgh University Library, Dc.2.73*.
Typescript with MS corrections.
|
1962
|
|
JMS
2/8/24
|
Material
for an index to JMS 2/8/22-3. MS.
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/25
|
Summaries
and notes from Laurence Jameson’s biography of his uncle, and from Robert
Jameson’s journals of 1797-9 and notes on Dumfriesshire, c.1802. MS
notebook.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/26
|
Miscellaneous
papers concerning the Jamesons and related
families. They include notes from C.D.Waterston and others. MSS
and typescripts.
|
1962,
1969, n.d.
|
|
JMS 2/8/27
|
Summaries
and notes, mostly from the correspondence of Rachel, Eliza, Janet and Laurence Jameson
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/28-31
|
Papers
concerning Robert Jameson’s nephew, Thomas Jameson Torrie (1808-58).
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/28
|
Transcripts
of letters of T.J. Torrie to members of his family, written during his
travels in Europe, 1830-31. Typescripts with MS notes.
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/29
|
Transcripts
of letters concerning and to Torrie, mostly concerning his visits during
his travels, 1830-33. Typescripts with MS notes.
|
|
|
JMS
2/8/30-31
|
Two
notebooks listing Torrie’s travels, 1830-43, and summarising some of his
letters to his family, 1830-32.
|
1963
|
|
JMS 2/8/32
|
Papers
concerning members of the Torrie family. MS and typescript.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/33
|
Genealogical
tree of the descendants of Thomas Jameson Torrie and Catherine Paton
Jameson.
A
roll placed at the end of the collection.
|
c.1964
|
|
JMS 2/8/34
|
Genealogical
tables of the Torrie, Jameson and Spalding families.
|
c.1964
|
|
JMS 2/8/35
|
Genealogical
papers of the Ross family, including a typescript “History of the Ross’s
from the year 1235 until the year 1793.” Further material on the Ross
family is in JMS 6/25.
|
|
|
JMS 2/8/36
|
Miscellaneous
genealogical papers, including notes by C.D. Waterston. MS and typescript.
|
1963,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 2/8/37
|
Lists
of family portraits.
|
1963-66,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 2/8/38
|
Photographs
of portraits of Robert Jameson. For some engravings of him, see JMS 8/1.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
JMS 3
|
Explorers and
collectors. A
number of
travellers and explorers, some of whom had been Jameson’s students,
collected material which they sent back to Jameson.
|
|
|
JMS 3/1-9
|
The Arctic.
|
|
|
JMS
3/1
|
Papers
concerning explorers and other travellers, mainly in the Arctic. They are
mostly biographical notes and references. Typescripts and MSS.
|
1967,
n.d.
|
|
JMS
3/2
|
Notes
on Arctic expeditions and those who took part in them. MSS and typescripts.
|
1966,
n.d.
|
|
JMS
3/3
|
Notes
on Sir John Barrow, mostly taken from Christopher Lloyd, Mr Barrow of the Admiralty (1970)
and Barrow’s own Voyages of discovery
and research (1846). MSS and
typescript.
|
1970,
n.d.
|
|
JMS
3/4
|
Summaries
of the journeys of Alexander Fisher, surgeon, in the Arctic, 1818-20, with
related material including lists of specimens collected. MSS and
typescripts.
|
1966,
1970, n.d.
|
|
JMS
3/5
|
Summary
of the life of Sir John Richardson, transcripts of correspondence between
Richardson and Jameson, 1822-24, and other papers. MSS and typescripts.
|
1968,
n.d.
|
|
JMS
3/6
|
MS
summaries of the life of James Weddell (1787-1834) and his voyage towards
the South Pole, 1825, and notes of items collected by him.
|
|
|
JMS
3/7
|
Papers
concerning Dr Meredith Gairdner, a surgeon in the Hudson’s Bay Company
(1809-37). They include a published biography by A.G. Harvey (1945), a list
of specimens collected by Gairdner and extracts from the Register and
Report Books of Edinburgh College Museum, 1833-36. MSS, typescripts
and photocopies.
|
|
|
JMS
3/8
|
Papers
concerning various travellers who collected specimens in the Arctic. MS, annotated
typescripts and photocopy.
|
1949,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 3/9/1-6
|
Sir William Parry
(1790-1855). Material relating
to Parry’s four expeditions to the Arctic.
|
|
|
JMS
3/9/1
|
Notes
and transcripts concerning Parry’s first expedition, 1819-20. MSS and typescripts.
|
|
|
JMS
3/9/2
|
Material
concerning Parry’s second expedition, 1821-23. It includes notes from
published journals, lists made from the Museum’s Report Books of objects and
birds received from Parry, and other notes. MSS and typescripts.
|
|
|
JMS
3/9/3
|
Notes
and lists concerning Parry’s third expedition, 1824-25. Also
a typescript account of the expedition used in the second part of Sweet’s
article, “Robert Jameson and the explorers” (see JMS 3/9/5). MSS and
typescripts.
|
|
|
JMS
3/9/4
|
MS
draft of a description of Parry’s fourth expedition, 1827, intended for “Robert
Jameson and the Explorers”, notes and other material relating to the
expedition. MSS and typescripts.
|
|
|
JMS
3/9/5
|
Draft
and text of Sweet’s article, “Robert Jameson and the Explorers: the Search for the North-West Passage. Part II.” Also
included is some correspondence about the possible publication of the
article in Annals of Science. MSS
and typescripts.
|
1978-79,
n.d.
|
|
JMS
3/9/6
|
Correspondence
and notes on Arctic flora collected on Parry’s expeditions. MSS, typescripts and photocopies.
|
1964,
1977, n.d.
|
|
JMS 3/10-11
|
Explorers and
collectors
|
|
|
JMS
3/10
|
Notes,
lists and a few letters about explorers working in areas other than the
Arctic. Also included are lists of travellers whose collections were given
to the Geological Society in London. MSS and typescripts.
|
1963,
1969, n.d.
|
|
JMS
3/11
|
Transcripts
of Jameson’s correspondence with collectors, 1823-31, n.d. Also included are transcripts of letters
of William Bald to Professor John Leslie concerning French travellers and
their scientific instruments, 1828-29.
Typescripts.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
JMS 4
|
Material for
published articles
|
|
|
JMS 4/1-5
|
Articles on geology
|
|
|
JMS
4/1
|
Notes,
drafts and texts of articles on minerals by Sweet,
with copies of a few related letters. Three of the articles were published
in the Mineralogical Magazine,
vols 22 and 32; the fourth, ‘The Colenso “diamond”’, was published in the Journal of Gemmology 8(3), July
1961, pp. 84-85. MS and typescripts.
|
1958-60
|
|
JMS
4/2
|
Material
concerning the minerals of Skye. Most of it relates to Sweet’s
article “Tacharanite and other hydrated calcium silicates from Portree”,
published in the Mineralogical
Magazine, vol. 32, July 1961, pp.746-53. MSS, typescripts, printed material and photographs.
|
1961,
n.d.
|
|
JMS
4/3
|
Material
for an article, “Antrimolite, harringtonite,
and lehuntite from Co. Antrim by M.H.H and
J.M.S.” MS notes and typescripts.
|
|
|
JMS
4/4
|
Notes
and drafts of the article by J.M.Sweet
and C.D.Waterston, “Robert Jameson’s approach to
the Wernerian theory of the earth, 1796”,
published in Annals of Science
23(2), June 1967, pp. 81-95. MSS, typescripts and
photographs.
|
|
|
JMS
4/5
|
Photocopy
of Robert Jameson’s paper on the formation of basalts, from the MS
Dissertations of the Royal Medical Society (1795-96), vol. 35, no. XX, pp.
218-224. Large item, placed at the
end of the collection.
|
|
|
JMS 4/6-23
|
Articles on various
subjects
|
|
|
JMS
4/6
|
Notes
for the article “Robert Jameson in London, 1793”, published in Annals of Science, 19(2), June 1963,
pp. 81-116. Also included are
photographs of the illustrations and an index to the published article. MS,
typescript and photographs.
|
|
|
JMS
4/7
|
Material
for the article “Matthew Guthrie (1743-1807): an eighteenth-century
gemmologist”, published in Annals of
Science 20(4), Dec. 1964, pp. 245-302. It includes an index to the
printed article. MS notes, typescripts and
photographs.
|
1964-5,
n.d.
|
|
JMS
4/8
|
Photographic
copies of letters of Guthrie to Joseph Black, 1783-6, and of correspondence
with Sir Joseph Banks and others, 1784-1802. The originals of the Banks
correspondence are in the British Library. Large item, placed at the end of
the collection.
|
|
|
JMS 4/9-11
|
Material
for the article “Robert Jameson’s Irish Journal, 1797”, published in Annals of Science 23(2), June 1967,
pp. 97-126.
|
|
|
JMS
4/9
|
Notes
on Nathaniel G. Leske and the Leskean
Museum. These include biographical material on Leske
and drafts of Appendix II of the published article. MSS, typescripts
and photocopies.
|
|
|
JMS
4/10
|
Notes
on Richard Kirwan, George Mitchell, the Royal Dublin Society
and others. MSS, typescripts and photostats.
|
|
|
JMS
4/11
|
Miscellaneous
notes, typescripts
and photographs relating to the Irish Journal.
|
|
|
JMS 4/12
|
Letters,
notes, transcripts and other material for the
article “The Collection of Louis Dufresne (1752-1832)”, published in Annals of Science 26(1), March 1970,
pp. 33-71. MSS, typescripts
and photographs.
|
1969,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 4/13
|
Notes,
transcripts of letters, photographs and other
material for the article “William Bullock’s collection and the University
of Edinburgh, 1819”, published in Annals
of Science 26(1), March 1970, pp. 23-32. MSS, typescripts
and photographs.
|
|
|
JMS 4/14
|
Letters,
copies of articles and notes for the article “Instructions to collectors”
published in Annals of Science” 29(4), December 1972, pp. 397-414. Most of the material relates to James
Anderson, LL.D, and James Anderson, M.D. MSS, typescripts, photocopies
and photographs.
|
1971-72,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 4/15
|
Material
for the article “Morten Wormskiold: Botanist
(1783-1845)” published in Annals of
Science 28(3), April 1972, pp. 293-305. It includes notes, transcripts’ and translations as well as drafts and a
few letters. MSS, typescripts
and photographs.
|
1971,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 4/16-20
|
Material
for the article “Robert Jameson and the Explorers: the search for the
North-West Passage. Part 1” published in Annals of Science 31(1), 1974, pp. 21-47.
|
|
|
JMS
4/16
|
William
Scoresby, Junior (1789-1857). Summaries of Scoresby’s life and correspondence,
typescripts of two articles by J.R. Harrison, notes and newspaper cuttings
concerning Malcolm Slesser’s expedition to
Greenland in 1969. MSS, typescripts and newspaper
cuttings.
|
1969,
1972, n.d.
|
|
JMS
4/17
|
Charles
Lewis Giesecke (1761-1833). Copies of articles
about Giesecke, including one by W.V. Farrar, and
notes. MSS, typescripts and photocopies.
|
1970,
n.d.
|
|
JMS
4/18
|
Sir
John Ross (1777-1856). Summaries, transcripts, notes and other material.
MSS, typescripts and photocopies.
|
1972,
n.d.
|
|
JMS
4/19
|
Photograph
of an engraving of Ross’s “Deep Sea Clamm” and
other instruments, with a related note and catalogue entry for it in 1877.
Large item, placed at the end of the collection.
|
1973
|
|
JMS
4/20
|
Photographs
of portraits of Scoresby, Giesecke and Ross, used
to illustrate the article.
|
|
|
JMS 4/21
|
Notes
for and drafts of the article “The University Puma” published in the University of Edinburgh Journal
xxvii (1976), pp. 218-21. Also
included is some correspondence about the history of the puma. MSS, typescripts and photographs.
|
1970-76,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 4/22-23
|
Material
for a biography of Robert Jameson which was published as the introduction
to the facsimile reprint of Jameson’s The
Wernerian Theory of the Neptunian
Origin of Rocks (New York, 1976), originally published under the title Elements of Geognosy.
For correspondence and other material related to the biography, see JMS
1/1/97.
|
|
|
JMS
4/22
|
Notes
and extracts from MSS and printed works.
MS.
|
|
|
JMS
4/23
|
MS
and typescript drafts of the biography.
|
1974,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 5
|
Material extracted from
different sources
Notes
and extracts taken from archival records and published journals.
|
|
|
JMS 5/1-3
|
“Index
to Original College Register (Edinburgh) – now Royal Scottish Museum, Vol.
1.”
|
|
|
JMS
5/1
|
Simple
version, giving the names and page numbers only. MS,
|
|
|
JMS
5/2
|
Fuller
version, giving the names, specimens and accession
numbers as well as page numbers. MS.
|
|
|
JMS
5/3
|
Fuller
version, A-K only. Typescript.
|
|
|
JMS 5/4-6
|
Extracts
from Report Books.
|
|
|
JMS
5/4
|
Notes
from Edinburgh University Natural History Museum, Day Report Books, 1822-30.
With an index of names. The material
consists of notes of accessions (to which Sweet has added the Museum’s
reference numbers), entries of historical interest and notes of some
correspondence. MS.
|
|
|
JMS
5/5
|
Notes,
mostly concerning acquisitions and donors, from Edinburgh University
Natural History Museum, Weekly Report Books, 1822-30. With an index of names. MS
|
|
|
JMS
5/6
|
Notes,
mostly concerning the receipt and disposal of specimens, from Edinburgh
Royal Museum, Annual Report Book, 1834-36. With an index of names. Also transcripts
of lettersto Jameson concerning the skeleton of a
whale, 1836. MS and typescript.
|
|
|
JMS 5/7
|
Notes
of acquisitions from various registers and also
from the Transactions of the Royal
Society of Edinburgh, 1788-94. MSS and typescripts.
|
|
|
JMS 5/8
|
Transcripts
of a letter to Robert Jameson concerning a donation of minerals to the
College Museum, 1832. Typescripts.
|
|
|
JMS 5/9
|
Lists
of minerals from the catalogue of the Hunterian Museum. MS and typescript.
|
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JMS 5/10
|
Notes
from the Edinburgh Philosophical
Journal and the Edinburgh New
Philosophical Journal, 1819-38. These mostly concern explorers, collectors and some of their finds. MS.
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JMS 5/11
|
Notes
from the Journal and the Transactions of the Ethnological Society
of London, 1848-70. MSS.
|
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JMS 5/12
|
Notes
and extracts from the Scottish Universities Commission 1826 and 1830, Evidence (1837). MSS and
typescripts.
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|
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JMS 5/13
|
Notes
and extracts from The Contrast, or
Scotland as it was in the year 1745; and Scotland in the year 1819
(1825). MS and corrected typescript.
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|
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JMS 5/14
|
Indexes
to the Correspondence and papers of
J.D. Forbes (1809-1868), (St Andrews, 1968). MS and typescript.
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|
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JMS 6
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Research papers on
different subjects
|
|
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JMS 6/1
|
Notes
and other material on the family of Robert Allan (1745-1818), banker and
proprietor of the Caledonian Mercury. MSS, typescripts
and newspaper cutting.
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1972,
1975
|
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JMS 6/2
|
Notes
on John James Audubon. MS.
|
1967
|
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JMS 6/3
|
Notes
and correspondence concerning the Edinburgh nurseryman, Thomas Dickson. MS and typescript.
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1971
|
|
JMS 6/4
|
Material
concerning Captain Peter Dillon (1785?-1847).
Following his expedition to the South Seas, Dillon presented various
objects to Jameson in 1829. MS and typescript.
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|
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JMS 6/5-6
|
Matthew
Guthrie (1743-1807)
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|
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JMS
6/5
|
Transcripts
of correspondence of Guthrie with Sir Joseph Banks, Joseph Black and others. MS notes and annotated typescripts.
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|
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JMS
6/6
|
Transcripts
of Guthrie’s contributions to The Bee
(1791-93), mostly on mineralogy, written under the pseudonym of “Arcticus”.
Annotated typescripts.
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|
|
JMS 6/7
|
Notes
of articles in The Bee, mostly by
the Earl of Buchan. Also included is a transcript of Buchan’s biographical
sketch of James Anderson from National Library of Scotland Adv.MS
29.3.17. MSS and typescripts.
|
|
|
JMS 6/8
|
Photocopy
of a transcript by Arthur Raistrick of the
Scottish section of Charles Hatchett’s diary, recording a tour of mines and
manufactories in 1796. Also notes on the diary by Charles Waterston and
Jessie Sweet. MS and typescript.
|
|
|
JMS 6/9
|
Material
on John Jeans, “the Scots fossilist”. MS and typescript.
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1965,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 6/10
|
Correspondence
and copies of two articles about Captain James Laskey, conchologist. Typescript and printed.
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1879,
1973-76
|
|
JMS 6/11
|
Notes
and extracts of material concerning Johannes Menge
(1787-1852), mineralogist. MSS and
typescripts.
|
|
|
JMS 6/12
|
Notes
on William Nicol (1768-1851) and Alexander Bryson (1816-66). MSS and typescripts.
|
|
|
JMS 6/13
|
Material
concerning William Thomson (1761-1806), mineralogist, including a few
letters. MSS, typescripts
and printed matter.
|
1961-63,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 6/14
|
Notes
from Professor John Walker’s Classes fossilium (1787) and Institutes of natural history (1792). Annotated typescripts.
|
|
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JMS 6/15
|
Material
concerning Alexander Weir (c.1730-1797) and his Museum. MSS and typescript.
|
|
|
JMS 6/16
|
Notes
on John Williams (1730-95), mineral surveyor. MSS and typescripts.
|
|
|
JMS 6/17
|
Material
concerning famous diamonds. MSS, typescripts and printed journal.
|
1954,
1970, n.d.
|
|
JMS 6/18
|
Correspondence
and notes concerning Lord Gray’s collection of minerals, later owned by
Lord Doune. MSS and typescripts.
|
1970,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 6/19
|
List
of Sir Arthur Russell’s biographical notes on dealers and collectors of
mineralogical interest. MSS and typescript.
|
|
|
JMS 6/20
|
Notes
on the use of pendulums, taken from Sir Edward Sabine, An Account of experiments to determine the figure of the earth
(1825). Typescript.
|
|
|
JMS 6/21
|
Material
on taxidermists and janitors. MSS, typescripts and
printed article.
|
1925,
1974-75, n.d.
|
|
JMS 6/22
|
Notes
on ethnology. MSS and photocopy.
|
|
|
JMS 6/23
|
Index
to names in M. Deleuze, Histoire et
description du Museum Royal d’Histoire Naturelle
(1823). MSS and typescript.
|
|
|
JMS 6/24
|
Index,
compiled by Peter Embrey, to the Allan Greg collection. MSS.
|
|
|
JMS 6/25
|
Material
concerning the families of the Arctic explorers, Sir John Ross and Sir James Clark Ross. For other material on the
Rosses, see JMS 2/8/35. MSS, typescripts and
newspaper cuttings.
|
1972,
n.d.
|
|
|
|
|
|
JMS 7
|
Notebooks
|
|
|
JMS 7/1
|
Notes
of the contents of notebooks I-IX and XXIV. MS.
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|
|
JMS 7/2-27
|
A series of notebooks, numbered I-XXV. The
contents are miscellaneous but include the Jameson family, biographical and
bibliographical notes, extracts from printed works and brief jottings. MSS.
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1961-75
|
|
JMS
7/2
|
Vol.
I
|
1961
|
|
JMS
7/3
|
Vol.
Ia. This notebook is in a smaller format than the rest.
|
n.d.
|
|
JMS
7/4
|
Vol.
II. Includes extracts from the registers of South Leith Parish Church.
|
March
1962-Jan. 1963
|
|
JMS
7/5
|
Vol.
III.
|
Jan.-June
1963
|
|
JMS
7/6
|
Vol.
IV. Mostly relating to families in Shetland.
|
June-Sept.
1963
|
|
JMS
7/7
|
Vol.
V. Includes notes on mineralogy.
|
Sept.
1963-Jan. 1964
|
|
JMS
7/8
|
Vol.
VI. Includes notes of the plates in Vivarium
Naturae or the Naturalists’s Miscellany
(1790-1813).
|
Jan.-Mar.
1964
|
|
JMS
7/9
|
Vol.
VII. Includes material on Matthew Guthrie.
|
Mar.-July
1964
|
|
JMS
7/10
|
Vol.
VIII.
|
July-Nov.
1964
|
|
JMS
7/11
|
Vol.
IX.
|
Nov.
1964-May 1965
|
|
JMS
7/12
|
Vol.
X. Mostly notes from printed works.
|
May-Sept.
1965
|
|
JMS
7/13
|
Vol.
XI. Includes notes from the minutes of the Wernerian
Society.
|
Sept.-Nov.
1965
|
|
JMS
7/14
|
Vol.
XII.
|
Nov.
1965-Aug. 1966
|
|
JMS
7/15
|
Vol.
XIII.
|
Aug.-Nov.
1966
|
|
JMS
7/16
|
Vol.
XIV. Mostly concerning mineralogy.
|
Nov.
1966-Jan. 1967
|
|
JMS
7/17
|
Vol.
XV. Includes material on Orkney families.
|
Jan.-Sept.
1967
|
|
JMS
7/18
|
Vol.
XVI. Mostly notes relating to travellers and collectors.
|
Sept.
1967-July 1968
|
|
JMS
7/19
|
Vol.
XVII. Includes notes about explorers and genealogical material.
|
July
1968
|
|
JMS
7/20
|
Vol.
XVIII. Includes notes on Scoresby and other explorers.
|
May
1969
|
|
JMS
7/21
|
Vol.
XIX. Notes on expeditions and objects collected.
|
April
1970
|
|
JMS
7/22
|
Vol.
XX. Mostly concerning explorers, mineralogy of the Arctic, etc.
|
Sept.
1970 –Feb. 1971
|
|
JMS
7/23
|
Vol.
XXI. Mostly on Scandinavian and Arctic matters.
|
Feb.-Oct.
1971
|
|
JMS
7/24
|
Vol.
XXII. Includes notes on James Anderson and zoological subjects.
|
Oct.
1971-Apr. 1972
|
|
JMS
7/25
|
Vol.
XXIII.
|
Apr.
1972-Apr. 1973
|
|
JMS
7/26
|
Vol.
XXIV. Includes geological material and notes on explorers.
|
Oct.
1972-Feb. 1975
|
|
JMS
7/27
|
Vol.
XXV.
|
1975
|
|
JMS 7/28
|
Small
notebook containing bibliographical material.
|
|
|
JMS 7/29
|
Small
notebook containing mineralogical and other notes.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
JMS 8
|
Original documents
Illustrations,
engravings and MSS.
|
|
|
JMS 8/1-2
|
Material
from a folder originally entitled “Portraits and drawings. Pollock-Morris.”
|
|
|
JMS
8/1
|
Engraved
portraits of Robert Jameson and others, a page from an album with a
painting of a butterfly and a photograph of an unidentified group.
|
|
|
JMS
8/2
|
Miscellaneous
drawings, paintings and Valentines.
|
|
|
JMS 8/3
|
Miscellaneous
papers from a folder originally entitled “Jameson Papers from Autograph
Book.” They include examples of
signatures, a concert programme and the Scotsman,
10 May 1845.
|
1832-38,
1845-46, 1852, 1885, n.d.
|
|
JMS 8/4
|
Miscellaneous
papers from a folder originally entitled “PM MSS uncopied.” They include notes on mineralogy, a
statement of Museum accounts to 20 November 1847, and a list of skeletons
presented to Jameson by his nephew William Jameson.
|
1846-47,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 8/5
|
Original
journal and letterbook of Robert Jameson. A
partial transcript of this is in JMS 2/3/2.
MS.
|
1840-45
|
|
JMS 8/6
|
Press
letterbook of Professor Laurence Jameson,
containing copies of his letters to the Lords of the Treasury. MS.
|
January
1856
|
|
JMS 8/7
|
“Description
of the mine of Himmelsfurst in Upper Saxony”, an
unfinished work written by Robert Jameson when he was a student in Freiberg.
With a transcript and related photocopy.
MS and typescript. The
material apparently belonged to the Grant Institute of Geology in the
University of Edinburgh.
|
1801(?),
n.d.
|
|
JMS 8/8
|
“Memorandum
from Lt. Col. Imrie for Professor Jameson” concerning a topaz found near
Invercauld. MS.
|
|
|
JMS 8/9
|
“Catalogue
of rock specimens illustrating an essay on the geology of the three
Lothians” probably by Robert J.H Cunningham. MS.
|
|
|
JMS 8/10
|
Commentary
related to a collection of minerals from Greece, with a later note about
possible authorship. MS.
|
c.1838
|
|
JMS 8/11
|
Catalogue
of rocks from the Auvergne, by F. Reich, in German. With a modern
transcript of the introductory note. MS.
|
19th
cent.
|
|
JMS 8/12
|
Printed
poster concerning the theft of diamonds from the Natural History Museum,
London.
|
1964
|
|
|
|
|
|
JMS 9
|
Newspaper cuttings,
photographs and photocopies
|
|
|
JMS 9/1
|
Miscellaneous
newspaper cuttings.
|
1960-75
|
|
JMS 9/2
|
Photographs
of portraits.
|
|
|
JMS
9/2/1
|
Members
of the Jameson family and others from the Pollok-Morris collection.
|
|
|
JMS
9/2/2
|
Carl
C. von Leonhard.
|
|
|
JMS
9/2/3
|
Group
of seven professors in Edinburgh University. From an engraving. With two
carbon copies of letters to the Wellcome
Institute concerning the engraving.
|
1971
|
|
JMS 9/3
|
Photographs
of two Eskimo knives or harpoons, 1818.
From BMNH.
|
1971
|
|
JMS 9/4
|
Photocopies
of correspondence and manuscripts.
|
|
|
JMS
9/4/1
|
Letters
of Jameson to the botanist Robert Brown, 1833, n.d. From the originals in BMNH.
|
|
|
JMS
9/4/2
|
Letters
of Jameson to John Murray, 1825, 1829.
From the originals in Edinburgh University Library.
|
|
|
JMS
9/4/3
|
Letters
of Jameson to John Richardson, 1822-24, n.d. From the originals in BMNH.
|
|
|
JMS
9/4/4
|
Letters
of Jameson to Dr and Mrs Somerville, 1810, 1817. Negative photostats.
|
|
|
JMS
9/4/5
|
Letters
of James P. Muirhead to James Watt, 1839, with
single letters to Jameson and John Murray.
From the originals in Glasgow University Library.
|
|
|
JMS
9/4/6
|
Letter
of Morten Wormskiold to Jameson, 1812. From the original in the Pollok- Morris
collection.
|
|
|
JMS
9/4/7
|
Biographical
sketch of James Anderson and notes on The
Bee by the Earl of Buchan.
Photostats. From the
originals in the National Library of Scotland.
|
|
|
JMS
9/4/8
|
Catalogues
of items in the Museum of Edinburgh University by John Walker, 1780,
1785. Pages 7-10 of the inventory of
1780 are a typed transcript. Also
included is a copy of a typescript list of articles in the Museum belonging
to Walker, 1803.
|
|
|
JMS
9/4/9
|
Catalogue
of Basil Hall’s collection of minerals.
From the original in BMNH.
|
1969
|
|
JMS
9/4/10
|
Letter
to Jameson from the Rev. Lansdown Guilding
accompanying his colour tables, 1825.
Photostats. From the
originals in Edinburgh University Archives.
|
|
|
JMS 9/5
|
“The
Laplanders return to their Native Country under the Care of Mr Bullock
& his son,” 1822. Photograph. Large item, placed at the end of the
collection.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
JMS 10
|
Printed
publications
Articles
by Jessie M. Sweet.
|
|
|
JMS 10/1
|
Proofs
of two articles published in the Mineralogical
Magazine: “Uigite from Skye” and “Tacharanite
and other hydrated calcium silicates from Portree.”
|
1959,
1961
|
|
JMS 10/2-14
|
Working
copies of off-prints.
|
|
|
JMS
10/2
|
“Robert
Jameson in London, 1793.”
|
1965
|
|
JMS
10/3
|
“Matthew
Guthrie (1743-1807).”
|
1965
|
|
JMS
10/4
|
“Robert
Jameson’s approach to the Wernerian theory of the
earth.”
|
1967
|
|
JMS
10/5
|
“The
Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh.”
|
1967
|
|
JMS
10/6
|
“Robert
Jameson’s Irish journal.”
|
1967
|
|
JMS
10/7
|
“Robert
Jameson and Shetland.”
|
1969
|
|
JMS
10/8
|
“The
Collection of Louis Dufresne (1752-1832).”
|
1970
|
|
JMS
10/9
|
“William
Bullock’s collection and the University of Edinburgh, 1819.”
|
1970
|
|
JMS
10/10
|
“Instructions
to collectors: John Walker (1973) and Robert Jameson (1817).”
|
1972
|
|
JMS
10/11
|
Morten
Wormskiold: botanist (1783-1845).”
|
1972
|
|
JMS
10/12
|
“Robert
Jameson and the explorers.”
|
1974
|
|
JMS
10/13-14
|
“The
University puma.” Two copies.
|
1976
|
|
JMS 10/15-26
|
Loan
and presentation copies duplicating JMS 10/2-13.
|
1965-76
|
|
|
|
|
|
JMS 11
|
Miscellaneous
papers
|
|
|
JMS 11/1
|
Papers
concerning the Royal Scottish Museum.
They include some notes on donors to the Museum’s collections and a
small notebook mostly concerning mineralogical specimens. MSS, typescripts and printed.
|
1895,1950-
57, n.d.
|
|
JMS 11/2
|
Notes,
transcripts and printed material sent by Jessie
Sweet to Dr A.S. Clarke of the Royal Scottish Museum. They mostly concern
mammals and the history of the Museum’s collections. MSS, typescripts and printed matter.
|
1963,
1965, 1972, n.d.
|
|
JMS 11/3
|
Notes
on kelp and the soap industry. MSS and typescript.
|
|
|
JMS 11/4
|
Miscellaneous
biographical and historical notes. MSS, typescripts
and photocopies.
|
1967-70,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 11/5
|
Miscellaneous
material on geology and mineralogy.
MSS, typescripts, photocopies and printed
material.
|
1950,
1959-60, 1971, n.d.
|
|
JMS 11/6
|
Notes
and other material on Shetland and Shetlanders MS, typescript and printed.
|
1974,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 11/7
|
Miscellaneous
papers, mostly concerning Jessie Sweet’s work. MS and typescript.
|
1940-65,
n.d.
|
|
JMS 11/8
|
A
notebook containing poems by members of a group of women calling themselves “The
Poets’ Corner.” MS.
|
1917
|