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John Oliphant drew a series of views of St Andrews and its notable buildings in 1767. One of his drawings was this view of the… Read More »December 17 – St Andrews coastline, 1767

The Hamish Brown Mountaineering and Scottish Photography Collection contains many dramatic images of several of the world’s mountainous regions but also represents many Scottish places,… Read More »December 16 – Kirkcaldy promenade

Sir Robert Lambert Playfair, with Albert C L G Gunther, published in 1866 “The Fishes of Zanzibar” with illustrations by G H Ford. The preface… Read More »December 15 – Zanzibar fishes

Guillaume Rondelet was a Professor of Medicine and Chancellor at the University of Montpellier in the 16th century. He published his Libri de piscibus marinis… Read More »December 14 – Libri de piscibus marinis, 1554

The Challenger expedition of 1872-1876 travelled nearly 70,000 nautical mile around the globe and is considered a key milestone in the beginnings of modern oceanography.… Read More »December 13 – The Challenger expedition

A St Andrews calendar on the theme of oceans wouldn’t be complete without mention of the Gatty Marine Lab. The original timber building was built… Read More »December 12 – Gatty Marine Laboratory

The papers of William Carmichael McIntosh document his professional career as Professor of Natural History at St Andrews and his work on marine biology. The… Read More »December 11 – McIntosh Albums

D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Professor of Biology at University College, Dundee from 1884 and Professor of Natural History at St Andrews from 1917, served as Scientific… Read More »December 10 – Seals, Pribilof Islands

Unable to pick just one of these beautiful illustrations, today we have a series of images from manuscripts in the D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson papers. The… Read More »December 9 – Drawings of jellyfish and sea anemones

A Voyage round Great Britain is the work of writer Richard Ayton and artist William Daniell. The eight volume work documents their travels around the… Read More »December 8 – A voyage round Great Britain, 1815

This cute fella is from Salviani’s Aquatilium animalium historiae. Hippolito Salviani (1514-1572) published Aquatilium animalium historiae in Rome in 1554. Salviani’s work describes species of… Read More »December 7 – Aquatilium animalium historiae, 1554

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… Read More »December 6 – Rock and Spindle, c.1860