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Elizabeth Blackwell made a significant contribution to medical knowledge and botanical illustration. ‘A curious herbal’ (1730s) was one of the earliest botanical books created by a woman and an invaluable resource for physicians and apothecaries in the 18thC and beyond.

#IWD2023

Join us for a talk ‘From inside shells’ with Dr Kara Layton and Professors David Wheatley and Timothy Baker which will explore shells and their meanings.

3.30 - 5pm, Wed 9th Nov, Sir Duncan Rice Library

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2022 is the UN International Year of GLASS! Smashing!

Here's a tast of the amazing diversity of glass through the collections and University including stained glass windows, pictish glass beads, whisky bottles...oh, and not fogetting a glass Library!

Happy New Year from all of us at Museums and Special Collections

A #WarmFire is the perfect place to gather for a story.

This illustration is from our copy of Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens.

#ArchiveAdventCalendar

In early books, endpapers were used to protect the text from the boards and to counteract the pull of the cover. Early ones were often made from plain or waste paper and more decorative papers where used from the 17thC on. 

Activity Page https://t.co/xSCAZF9xJK
#BookWeekScotland

This woodcut shows a gardener harvesting medicinal crops. Knowledge of the properties of plants and herbs was harnessed by medical doctors but also less formal practitioners.

Find out more in our online exhibition Toil & Trouble https://t.co/imsC7QhYBV

#Museum30

Here's a painting that shows King's College in 1848. The painting evokes a sense of great physical change in #OldAberdeen while reminding us of King’s presence as a constant amongst all that change.

This model was used to teach medical students about the distribution of nerves and their links to pain and some neurological disorders. It was created by a member of staff at the University in the early 1900s and made from hand painted papier-mâché. ABDAN:2044

This #FolkloreThursday is all about Underground and the Underworld. This depiction of George MacDonald's "The Princess and the Goblin" includes an entire underground race that were created, descended from humans who evolved over eons of living underground with no sunlight.