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
The Naturalist’s Library is a series of natural history volumes edited by Sir William Jardine and published between 1833 and 1843 by Edinburgh based printers,… Read More »December 5 – The natural history of the amphibious carnivora, 1839
Margaret Scott Gatty, a children’s author and writer on marine biology, published British Sea Weeds in 1863. In the Libraries and Museums collections are some… Read More »December 4 – Margaret Scott Gatty, Seaweed, c.1850-1880
From the G. Allan Little Scottish Photographic Collection, an image of gulls on the Isle of May, c.1970 (ID: GAL-2-49-B). The Isle of May in… Read More »December 3- Isle of May
Georg Eberhard Rumphius, or Rumpf, was a German-born botanist born in 1627. He was employed by the Dutch East India Company and sent to the… Read More »December 2 – D’Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, 1705
This year’s Advent calendar takes the theme of oceans and coastlines, in support of the Dive In! Protecting Our Ocean exhibition at the Wardlaw Museum… Read More »Advent Calendar 2021
Girls pulling Christmas cracker, ca.1950 (GMC-EC-11b). A 5×4 ins. plate glass negative from the George M Cowie Collection. Our last image brings us in from… Read More »December 25: Girls pulling Christmas cracker, ca.1950.
Icicles on Stob Binnein (Binean), January 1908 (RMA-S-464B). A quarter plate (4.25×3.25 ins.) film negative from the Robert Moyes Adam Scottish Landscape Photography Collection. Robert… Read More »December 24: Icicles on Stob Binnein (Binean), January 1908
A Carter’s sleigh on Dominion Square, Montreal, ca. 1900 (JV-102721). A print from the James Valentine Photographic Collection. Valentines of Dundee produced prints and then… Read More »December 23: A Carter’s sleigh on Dominion Square, Montreal, ca. 1900
Maiden Rock Snow Scene, St Andrews, New Year 1894 (JHW-C-84). A lantern slide from the John H Wilson Magic Lantern Slide Collection. John Hardie Wilson… Read More »December 22: Maiden Rock Snow Scene, St Andrews, New Year 1894
