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Glass slide of a plan by []
GB 249 T-TYR/8/9/1 · Item · No date
Part of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt papers

Plan of [Olympus], consisting of a large circular room with eight semi-circular alcoves. Two opposite alcoves serve as an entrance/exit staircase and as the entrance to a corridor leading to a second circular room.

Label: ‘William Hume, 14 Lothian Street, Edinburgh’.

GB 249 OA/5/1 · Item · 1760
Part of John Anderson papers

MS copy made by John Anderson, Glasgow College, 1 October 1760, of a catalogue of curisosities, 1703. Prefaced 'Copy of a small tattered book lent to me by the Reverend Mr. Peter Woodrow, Minister at Turbowtoun [ie Tarbolton], which he says is a catalogue of the curiosities collected by his father the Minister of Eastwood'. Lists natural history objects, fossils and antiquities.

Woodrow, Robert, 1679-1734, ecclesiastical historian