Correspondence; class ticket; subscriptions by students for Ure's benefit; prospectus of lectures; copies of Ure's published papers; licence from Andrew Ure to Patrick Cruikshank to use equipment for evaporating syrups and juices on St Vincent; details of patents by Ure; notice regarding his appointment at Belfast Academical Institution; items on his experiments with galvanism; articles about his work; biographical information and obituaries.
Ure, Andrew, 1778-1857, chemistRecords relating to library services at the University of Strathclyde and its predecessors, the Royal College of Science and Technology, the Royal Technical College, the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College and the Glasgow and West of Scotland Commercial College. Includes records relating to the Andersonian Library, John C. Eaton Reading Room, Baird Hall Library, Fleck Library and Business School Library.
Records include stock control and cataloguing records; stock books; catalogues; annual reports and statistics; minute books; expenditure books; visitor books; correspondence; newsletters and circulars; newscutting books; notes, guides, leaflets, etc for staff and students; records relating to accommodation and planning; records relating to Special Collections; records relating to Library Committee/Groups.
University of Strathclyde | LibraryThe majority of the collection comprises xerox copies of articles, papers, and correspondence written by, or about, Henry Dyer, engineer and educationist, in the 1870s-1890s.
Original materials in the collection include:
- newspaper cutting: 'some urgent educational problems in Glasgow', likely to be from the Glasgow Herald, c. 1898
- a list of articles, books etc written by Dyer, compiled by Shoji Katoh, Nagoya, Japan, December 1975
Two publications by Crawford, 1974, 2004; letter to Crawford from Muriel Spark, 1971.
Crawford, Ronald Lyndsay, b. 1939, Academic Registrar, University of StrathclydePrize book awarded to McCance's father; documents on the Royal College/Glasgow University discussions and the progress to university status; photographs, including official openings of Chesters House, Bearsden and Students' Union Building, and of royal visits by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and HRH Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon; obituaries and biographical information.
McCance, Sir Andrew, 1889-1983, Knight, industrialistMinutes, papers; correspondence; newsletters and other documents relating to IUFoST, the International Committee of Food Science and Technology and the International Union of Nutritional Sciences.
International Union of Food Science and TechnologyPublished articles by Benjamin Noble, mathematician.
Noble, Benjamin, 1922-2006, mathematicianInformation on undergraduate courses, c.1980s-1997; prospectuses for postgraduate study, 1982-2004; leaflet on course run by Department, 1988; leaflet on Career Assessment Unit test programme, c.1980s; information on Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology, c.1990.
University of Strathclyde | Department of PsychologyThe 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.
Recordings and full transcripts of 6 interviews conducted with Wyllie by freelance oral history interviewer Jenny Simmons between 10 December 2003 and 15 March 2004. The interviews follow a 'life story' format, covering Wyllie's family background, childhood, education, work, leisure and later life.
Wyllie, George Ralston, 1921-2012, artist and sculptorCollection of texts and conference proceedings on food science.
International Union of Food Science and TechnologyMinutes; draft constitution; correspondence on affiliation with National Federation of Music Societies; leaflet about Chorus; concert programmes and posters; membership lists.
University of Strathclyde ChorusThis oral history project was conducted by Graeme Naylor as an independent study project (Registration number 200003190). It involved interviewing victims of asbestos-related disease and their families, as well as a consultant surgeon at Inverclyde Royal Infirmary.
University of Strathclyde | Scottish Oral History CentrePublished articles by Garnett; correspondence; marriage certificate; map of Garnett's tour of the Highlands in 1798; receipts and insurance certificate; cartoon by Gillray.
Garnett, Thomas, 1766-1802, chemist and physicianRecords relating to Dallas Carter's undergraduate studies in Politics and Scottish Studies at the University of Strathclyde, including: lecture notebooks; essay submissions with tutors' mark sheets; examination papers; class handbooks.
Carter, Dallas Evelyn, b. 1951, student of the University of Strathclyde