1751 - 1967
Ref:GB 231 MS 0037 - 0040, 0471 - 0483, 0540
Location:University of Aberdeen Collections
Name of creator:Skene David (1731-1770) MD Of Aberdeen Alexander Thomson (1792-1868) Of Banchory (collection and arrangement of Skene's papers)James W H Trail (1851-1919) Professor of Botany University of Aberdeen (transcription and further arrangement of Skene's papers)Bernhard Fabian (fl 1967) Professor of English Wilhelms-Universitat Munster Westfalia (transcription of Skene's papers)Karen Kloth (fl 1967) Research Assistant Westfalia (transcription of Skene's papers).
Extent:9 bound volumes (manuscript); 2 bound volumes (typescript); 2 boxes of loose papers, removed from guards (manuscript); 9 boxes of pamphlets, removed from guards (manuscript); 9 files (typescript). Letters - originals, drafts and copies - and fair copies of Skene's writings are generally in good condition and easy to read and handle. His botanical and other scientific notes, however, are usually scribbled in Latin on scraps of paper, on the backs of letters, or on the backs of printed forms of the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen. The condition of this material is uneven
Language:eng and Latin
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