Added our Weekly Newsletter for 26th July 2024 which you can read as a
pdf file or in our
Community
Sir William MacGregor
Added a link to a book about him that can be borrowed on the Internet Archive as
well as some other literature on his time in the Pacific and also Newfoundland
in Canada.
Albert MacLaren
Pioneer Missionary in New Guinea, A Memoir by Frances M. Synge with Introduction
by Sir William MacGregor, G.C.M.G., M.D., etc. Formerly Governor of British New
Guinea (1908) (pdf)
Colonization Circular
Issued by Her Majesty's Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners (1872) (pdf)
Guide to the
Orkney Islands
Including their scenery, climate, agriculture, trade, fisheries, history,
natural history, etc. with a map, views, notices on inns and ferries, etc. by
the Rev. Charles Clouston, Minister of Sandwick (1862) (pdf)
The Highland Monthly Magazine
A Magazine forming a Centre of literary Brotherhood for Scoto-Celtic people both
at Home and Abroad Edited by Duncan Campbell, Editor of the “Northern
Chronicle,” and Alexander MacBain, M.A., FSAScot.
An Historical Case Study of the
Effect of Educational Reform on an Underdeveloped Area
Scotland in the Eighteenth Century. Final Report by Vern L. Bullough (1969)
(pdf)
Donald Trump
Added a video history of his life to his page.
Banks, Iain
Writer, whom I've added to our Famous Scots section.
James Clerk Maxwell
Replaced the book on him with a better copy.
MacLeod, John James Rickard
inventor of insulin
David
Livingston
Added a new video about him and also added a couple of reports from
the Livingstonia Mission to the foot of our page about him.
Added our Weekly Newsletter for 19th July 2024 which you can read as a
pdf file or in our
Community
Journal of a Tour in the
Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland in 1800
By John Leyden, edited with a Bibliography, by James Sinton (1903) (pdf)
The Invertebrate
Fauna of the Inland Waters of Scotland
Part III. By Thomas Scott, F.L.S. Loch Morar, Inverness-shire (1893) (pdf)
Catalogue of Important Scottish
Medals
Collected by the late R. M. Cochran-Patrick, LL.D., F.S.A., FSAScot., at one
time Member of Parliament for North Ayrshire, and Under Secretary for
Scotland [Sold by Order of Lady Kennedy Cochran-Patrick] to be auctioned on
Tuesday, the 8th of November, 1949 (pdf)
An Index Drawn up about
the Year 1629
Of many records of charters granted by the different Sovereigns of Scotland
between the years 1309 and 1413, most of which records have been long
missing with an Introduction giving a state, founded on authentic documents
still preserved, of the Ancient Records of Scotland, which were in that
Kingdom in the year 1292, to which are subjoined, indexes of the persons and
places mentioned in those charters, alphabetically arranged, published at
the desire of the Right Honourable Lord Frederick Campbell, Lord
Clerk-Register of Scotland with a view to lead to a discovery of those
records which are missing by William Robertson, Esq., one of the Deputies of
the Lord Clerk-Register for keeping the records of Scotland (1798) (pdf)
The Scottish Mountaineering Club
Guide
Ben Nevis edited by H. MacRobert (1920) (pdf)
Tohoku, The Scotland of Japan
By Christopher Noss and Associates of the Tohoku Mission (pdf)
Scottish Society of
Louisville
Got up their June and July 2024 newsletters.
Robert Duncan MacIntyre
Professional Golfer
Reminiscences of Glasgow
And the West of Scotland by Peter MacKenzie in three volumes
Reunion
A Voice from Scotland by The Very Reverend James Cooper, D.D., D.C.L.,
Hon. Litt.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University
of Glasgow; Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland, 1917 (1918) (pdf)
Scotland leads rest of UK in
attracting youngsters to vital science, tech, engineering, maths
(STEM) skills
Scotland's continued struggle (along with virtually the rest of the
planet) to plug skills shortages in science, technology, engineering
and mathematics (STEM) has been given a timely boost by a group of
teens who beat off stiff competition from hundreds of their peers to
lift the UK's leading Junior Engineering Award. Article by Bill
Magee.
Five
acres and independence
A Practical Guide to the Selection and Management of the Small Farm
by M. G. Kains, B.S , M.S., Special Crop Culturist, U S Department
of Agriculture, Formerly Head of Horticulture Department,
Pennsylvania State College, Hornculture, Agriculture and Botany
Editor, New International Encyclopedia, Garden Editor Pictorial
Review and other National Magazines, Lecturer on Horticulture,
Columbia University, Author of Modern Guide to Successful Gardening,
Plant Propagation, Principles and Practice of Pruning Culinary
Herbs, etc, etc., New and Enlarged Edition. (1935) (pdf)
A Description of the Western Islands of
Scotland
Including the Isle of Man comprising an account of their
geological structure with remarks on their agriculture, scenery, and
antiquities by John MacCulloch, M. D. in three volumes (1819)
The history of the
troubles and memorable transactions in Scotland and England
From 1624 to 1645 in two volumes by John Spalding (1827)
Observations on
Several Parts of Great Britain
Particularly the Highlands of Scotland relative chiefly to picturesque
beauty made in the year 1776 By William Gilpin, A. M., Prebendary of
Salisbury; and Vicar of Boldre in New Forest, near Lymington in two volumes
(second edition) (1792) (pdf) Also including The Life of William Baker with
his funeral sermon by the Rev. Mr. Gilpin (1795) (pdf) Found a new edition
of this publication which is in colour and is a third edition and so
have replaced the older edition with this one.
Added our Weekly Newsletter for 12th July 2024 which you can read as a
pdf file or in our
Community
Information for John Campbel Eldest Lawfull Son to the Deceast
Robert Campbel of Glenlyon Against The Earl of Tullibardin (pdf)
The History of
the Reformation of Religion in Scotland by John Knox
To which are appended several other pieces of his writing including
the First book of Discipline, complete, and his dispute with the
Abbot of Crossraguel, not given with any former edition with a
memoir, historical introduction, and notes, by William M'Gavin, Esq.
(1831) (pdf)
Travellers’ Tales
of Scotland
By R. H. Coats, M.A. (1913) (pdf)
A True Relation of the
Actions of the Inniskilling Men
From their first taking-up of Arms in December, 1688. for the Defence of the
Protestant Religion and their Lives and Liberties, Written by Andrew
Hamilton, Rector of Kilskerrie and one of the Prebends of the Diocese of
Clogber, in the Kingdom of Ireland, an Eye-witness thereof, and Actor
therein (1690) (pdf)-
Twenty-Five Years of St, Andrews
September 1865 to September 1890 in two volumes by Andrew Kennedy Hutcheson
Bond (third edition) (1892). Added this set to the foot of our St. Andrews
page.
Tracts Illustrative of the
Traditionary & Historical Antiquities of Scotland
Including A Vindication of Elizabeth More From the Imutation of being a
concubinel and her children from the tache of bastardy confuting the
critical observations of the publisher of the carta autheentica, and of some
other late writers by Richard Hay, of Drumboote, C. R. In the body of this
Book, and the Appendix subjoined, there are several ancient and valuable
Charters, which serve to illustrate the Origin and Descent of the most
considerable Families in Scotland (1836) (pdf)
Ulster Biographies
Relating Chiefly to the Rebellion of 1798 by W. T. Latimer, B.A. (1897)
(pdf)
A History of the Irish
Presbyterians
By W. T. Latimer, B.A. (1893) (pdf)
Astoria of
the Fur Traders
A Chronology 1542-1846 by Virginia Jenson (1961) (pdf)
McLean, Alexander Grant
Surveyor-General of Australia.
Vines
and Vine Culture
By Archibald F. Barron (third edition) (1892) (pdf)
Contribution to the
Vital Statistics of Scotland
By James Stark, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.R.S.S.A., Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians, Edinburgh (1851) (pdf)
The Royal Order of Scotland
By Harold V. B. Voorhis, with a Foreword by Marvin E. Fowler, Provincial
Grand Master, United States of America (1960) (pdf)
