Advent Calendar

For the final image, we are back to the St Andrews coastline on a snowy day c.1990. This image is from the University Photography collection,… Read More »December 25 – St Andrews Castle in the snow

George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884) came from an extended family of natural historians, illustrators and conchologists. The Thesaurus Conchyliorum, a comprehensive work on molluscs, was… Read More »December 24 – Sowerby’s A conchological manual

Already featured in this blog series, The Naturalist’s Library is a series of natural history volumes edited by Sir William Jardine and published between 1833… Read More »December 23 – The white whale, c.1837

James David Forbes (1809-1868) was a Scottish scientist and traveller, Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University 1833-1859 and Principal of the United College, St… Read More »December 22 – Watercolours of the Norway coast, 1851

The Sean Dooley East Neuk Documentary Photography Collection represents the interests of local Scottish photographer Sean Dooley, whose attention is focused on the transformations taking… Read More »December 21 – ‘A Sea Hairst’

Catching the Tide was a long-term project carried out by photographer Colin McPherson to document salmon net fishing in Scotland. McPherson began his work in… Read More »December 20 – Catching the Tide

A photo-journalist, G Allan Little took pictures of many diverse Scottish and local (North Fife and Tayside) subjects. This image is of an Anstruther based… Read More »December 19 – Boat building at Anstruther

This image of fisherwomen baiting lines at Fishergate, North Street, St Andrews was taken in 1846. The image is commonly attributed to D O Hill… Read More »December 18 – Fishing and photography

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