File contains photographs of Jim Manos (item 30) and Toni Laidlaw (item 30). - Photographs taken by Gina Wilkins. - see UN Vol. 9 No. 23, March 22, 1979.
Copywork of engravings. Attached card reads: "The fascination of 18th Century artists with Shakespeare are evident in some of the works on display in the gallery exhibit. 2. Macbeth - The three witches from Act IV, Scene 1. 1. Hamlet - "By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me" - Act I, Sc. IV.
Attached card reads: "A typical 18th Century styled salon, arranged in the Public Archives of N.S., was one of a number of exhibits staged for the conference at Dalhousie last week.".
File contains photographs of Lester Crocker (items 2-4) and J.R. Lawler (items 2-4). - Attached card reads: "At right: D.r J.R. Lawler, chairman of the French Dept., with Dr. Lester Crocker, one of the keynote speakers at he 2-day conference.".
File contains photographs of Paul McIssac; Roseanne Runte; D.P. Varma; E. Messinger; Hans-Gunther Schwarz; James Gray; H.D. Sproule; and R.S. Hafter. - Attached card reads: "L to R: (front): Prof. Paul McIssac, MSVU; Prof. Roseanne Runte, French; Dr. D.P. Varma, English. (Back): Prof. E. Messinger, French; Dr. Hans-Gunther Schwarz, German; Dr. James Gray, English; Dr. H.D. Sproule, English; and Dr. R.S. Hafter, English.".
Photographs taken by J. Dorkin. - Books from MacMechan Collection. Attached card reads: "1. Archibald M. MacMechan was the George Munro Professor of English Language and Literature during the early years of Dalhousie College. Material from the MacMechan Collection is on display in the Killam Library lobby and Special Collections area (2nd Fl.). The display has been organized by Suanne Rogers-Bell. 3. This Baskerville edition of Addison's works will be one of the many items on view in the Special Collections area of the Killam Library from March 29-April 24.".
File is an engraved portrait of Dr. Edward Jenner, creator of the small pox vaccine. Inscription: J. Robinson pinxit. R.M. Meadows sculp. Edward Jenner MD. Published by M. Thomas for the Analectic Magazine. 1817.
File is an engraved portrait of French physician Rene Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope. Inscription: Ambroise Tardieu direxit.; Jal. Comp. du D. D. S. M.; C. L. F. Panckoucke Editeur.
File is an engraving from book West Port Murders. Inscription reads: A laconic narrative of the Life & Death of James Wilson known by the name of Daft Jamie. In which are interspersed, several anecdotes relative to him and his old friend Boby Awl, an idiot who strolled about Edinburgh for many years. He's to be pitied, that's such a silly elf, who cannot speak nor wrestle for himself. Jamie was such a simpleton, he'd not fight with a boy; nor did he ever curse or swear, at those who'd him annoy. Published by W. Smith, Bristo Port, Edina. Price Thrip Pence. 1829. Reprinted (1881) by A. & G. Brown, 15 Bristo Place and the Mound, Edinburgh.
File is a reproduction of an engraving. Accompanying note states: Andreas Stog's Engracving of Pieter Paaw's Theatre of Anatomy -- the first of its kind -- which was built in Leyden, 1589 -- the first one erected in the Low Countries.
File is an engraving from book West Port Murders published in 1829. Text reads: AUTHENTIC CONFESSIONS OF WILLIAM BURK, Who was Executed at Edinburgh, on 28th January 1829, for Murder, emited before the Sheriff-Substitute of Edinburgh, the Rev. Mr. Reid, Catholic Priest, and others, in the Jail, on 3rd and 22d January. EDINBURGH: Printed and Sold by R. Menzies, Lawnmarket. 1829. Price Twopence.
File is a reproduction of an engraving depicting a bust of Claudius Galen. Inscription: P.P. Rubens Del: Ex Marmore Antiquo. J. Faber sen[io]r Fecit. GALEN A most excellent Physitian, born at Pirgamos in Asia. He was a great improver or the Hypocratick System of Physick, and the beginner of that Method of Practice [unknown abbreviation] has been used from his time till lately, & from him called Galenick. He is said to have been author of 200 volumes y were burnt in y temple of peace. And is numberd by Garden among y12 most subtil wits of the World. He was of a [illegible] & crazy constitution yet by temperance preserved his life to a great age. He died about the middle ... [illegible due to damage]. Accompanying note: CLAUDIUS GALEN (131-201 A.D.) Galen was the greatest Greek physician after Hippocrates. His original investigations concerned chiefly Anatomy. In the Annals of Anatomy and Surgery, Vol. IV., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881, can be found a series of articles about Galen, written by Dr. George Jackson Fisher.
File is an engraving from book West Port Murders published in 1829. Image is of Dr. Knox with his hand on a book as if being sworn in. Inscription is illegible. Accompanying note reads: Robert Knox, The Anatomist : 1791-1862.
File is a reproduction of an engraving depicting a medallion with the profile image of Frederick II of Germany. Inscription: Frederick II from a Medallion in the Church della Porto Santo in Andria. Accompanying note: Frederick II., (1194-1250), Emperor of Germany, King of the Two Sicilies, the last one of the Christian Kings of Jerusalem, the Author of a Treatise which contains a Complete Account of the Anatomy of the Falcon.