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Collection of over 2,300 vinyl records of jazz music collated during Jim Waugh's career.

Needlework and knitting samples; publications on needlework and crafts.

Photocopy of junior student's certificate from Kilmarnock Academy, 1924; photocopy of training record, 1926; photocopy of menu from Conference of Scottish Training College students, Jordanhill, 1925, with signatures of participants; reminiscences of Jordanhill College 1924-1926 and accompanying letter, 1992.

Notes; correspondence; lecture notes; published books and pamphlets; diagrams and glass slides. Many of the items are by or related to Patrick Geddes.

Lesson notebook, 1951-1952; photocopy of teaching practice diary, 1951-1954; photographs.

Items relating to Beltrami's 15-year battle to overturn the conviction of his client, Patrick Meehan, for the murder of Rachel Ross during a burglary in 1969. Beltrami's efforts secured a unique Royal Pardon for Meehan, plus a substantial compensation payment. The collection includes:

• Incomplete (pages 2-7 only) xerox copy of the Edinburgh High Court indictment against Patrick Connolly Meehan for theft, housebreaking, assault to severe injury, robbery, murder and fraud, 1969;
• Incomplete copy letter from [Joe Beltrami, Beltrami Dunn & Co] to R.B. Laurie, Secretary, the Law Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, 5 April 1976, seeking an opinion on matters of confidentiality concerning the precognitions of the widow, son and daughter of William McGuiness;
• Copy letter from [Joe Beltrami, Beltrami Dunn & Co] to the Crown Agent, Crown Office, Edinburgh, 16 September 1976, concerning the Crown's delay in pronouncing the innocence of Meehan's co-suspect in the murder of Rachel Ross, James Griffiths (Griffiths was shot dead by a police marksman in 1969);
• Xerox copy of the recommendation by D[avid] A.O. Edward Q.C., Edinburgh, that Patrick Meehan should be offered the sum of £47,915 in compensation, 22 December 1983, with annotations by Beltrami;
• Xerox copy of the cheque for £47,915 issued to Patrick Meehan by H.M. Paymaster General on 8 February 1984, with annotations by Beltrami;
• Photograph of Patrick Meehan with Joe Beltrami, signing for receipt of his compensation payment in Beltrami's office, 1984, with annotations on the reverse (this image is published on the dust jacket of Beltrami's book, 'A Deadly Innocence');
• Copy of Joe Beltrami, 'A Deadly Innocence: the Meehan file' (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1989), containing an inscription by Beltrami on the flyleaf.

Reminiscences of student life at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow during the Second World War; photographs; examination question papers; student notes; information sheets and booklets; Royal Technical College Former Students Association handbook; certificates; acceptance letters.

Personal items; letters; writings on scientific, military, antiquarian and other topics; material relating to Anderson's involvement with the University of Glasgow.

Copy of 'The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth', awarded to John Armour as Dux of Allan Glen's School, session 1917-1918; Arkela Badge certificate, granted to John Armour, District Cubmaster, West Glasgow, 19 October 1923; short story written by John Armour, entitled 'A Comedy of the Kirk'; copy of a photograph taken on the occasion of John Armour's 90th birthday.

• Lecture notes for a Junior School Physical Training Lesson (typescript, 8 pages);
• List of gymnastic exercises comprising a 'P[hysical] T[raining] Competition' for a class of school children, with instuctions for pupil and teacher actions (typescript, 1 page);
• Three photographs of students of the Scottish School of Physical Education at Jordanhill College of Education, performing exercises in the gym, c 1949 (black and white: 133 x 84 mm, 85 x 55 mm and 91 x 55 mm). With original Kodak paper wallet from the Drug and Dispensing Department, Dalziel Co-operative Society Ltd., 34 Brandon Street, Motherwell, annotated 'J.M. Cross';
• Photograph of the Jordanhill Training College Rugby Football Club for session 1948-1949, mounted on card (black and white: 195 x 125 mm on 300 x 248 mm mount). A key of names is printed on the mount. John Cross is pictured in the back row, third from left. Photograph by Weir, Glasgow;
• Photograph of Scottish School of Physical Education students and staff in dress uniform, mounted on card (black and white: 25 x 150 mm on 298 x 247 mm mount). Taken in front of the David Stow Building on the Jordanhill Campus, c 1949. Photograph by Weir, Glasgow;
• Photograph of 15 members of the Jordanhill Training College Rugby Football Club and 2 members of staff, taken on a playing field, c 1954. John Cross is pictured in the back row, fourth from left. Annotated 'J. Cross' on the reverse. With partial key of names;
• Group photograph, possibly of students and staff of the Scottish School of Physical Education in the grounds at Jordanhill, c 1949 (black and white, 140 x 89 mm);
• Photograph of the Motherwell Amateur Swimming and Water Polo Club team with the British Amateur Water Polo Championship shield, taken in 1951 or 1952 (the team won the Championship in both years). John Cross is pictured in the back row, second from right. Key of names on reverse. Copyright: Action Photos by H.W. Neale, 95 Mallinson Road, Battersea, London (black and white, 215 x 165 mm).

Diary; papers relating to organisation of Royal College of Science and Technology; papers on expenditure of university libraries; papers relating to proposed University of East Stirlingshire; papers relating to campaign to receive benefits from Carnegie United Kingdom Trust; papers relating to educational endowments and bursaries; articles by Eaton; list of College portraits.

Curriculum vitae; family photograph; evening class certificates; weaving class notebooks; testimonial; press cutting about J.A. Gilmour & Co Ltd.

The John Hawthorn Archive comprises the records of two organisations concerned with food science: the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST) and the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST).

The combined collection is named after John Hawthorn, Professor of Food Science at the Royal College of Science and Technology and subsequently the University of Strathclyde. Professor Hawthorn was a founder member of IUFoST and instrumental in the deposit of IUFoST's records at the University of Strathclyde.

Student notes; thesis; biographical note; extracts from Hoyle's diaries.

Student notes and notebooks; thesis; correspondence; biography written by Tom Hunter.