University of Dundee Archives

Kittiewake, gullimote colony.

MS 180/1/23
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Laig Bay, Eigg; Spherical concretions in line-stone.

MS 180/1/5
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Letter, M. Forster Heddle to [-] Dudgeon

MS 180/3
Part
19th century

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

Letter, [n.d.], St Andrews, M. Forster Heddle to [-] Dudgeon. Describes in detail with sketches, the crystallography of some [? mineral] specimens-"The Causeway things", and makes various references to R.P. Greg and W.G. Lettsom, Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland, (1858). [Letter found in copy of this book in the Library's Thoms collection of books].

Loch Coruisk; Glaciation.

MS 180/1/3
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Male, wearing loin cloth, large necklace of boar tusks. Holds fan and spear with adornments. Club 'olo or 'ula' at left side. Type of club is of SAMDAN origin. Studio shot.

MS 180/2/4
Item
1800-1900

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

13.5x20; Album

Man, possibly life-boat coxswain, wearing fisherman's waterproof clothing. Holding tin-box labelled 'Appar[atus]'.

MS 180/1/42
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

11x15; Album

Mavis' nest, eggs.

MS 180/1/32
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

8x10.5; Album

Mhuire Island; Basaltic peak.

MS 180/1/16
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Mull; Basaltic Pavement, coastline.

MS 180/1/6
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Natives, male and female, with white man, (possibly Mr Homfray in charge of Andamanse - 1860-1870's).

MS 180/2/20
Item
1800-1900

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

14x19; Album

Nest of the Great Black Backed Gull, eggs.

MS 180/1/27
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

11x14; Album

Nest of the Great Cormorant, eggs.

MS 180/1/28
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

11x14; Album

Nest of the Great Skua, containing egg.

MS 180/1/25
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

11x14; Album.

Nest of the Kittiewake, containing eggs.

MS 180/1/26
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

11x14; Album

North Rona; `Wave Tunnel', two male figures left of picture.

MS 180/1/12
Item
c.1850

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

15x20; Album

Obituary of Alexander Thoms

MS 180/4
Part
2 January 1926

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

Obituary from The St Andrews Citizen

Ovalau; town of Levuka administrative and commercial centre of Fiji. View of harbour area. Shows native and colonial buildings.

MS 180/2/21
Item
1800-1900

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

10x14; Album

Photographs: Polynesian views

MS 180/2
Item
[19th century]

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

Views of Polynesia mainly natives and buildings

Photographs: the natural world

MS 180/1
Item
19th century

Part of Alexander Thoms papers

Comprises photos of geological formations and bird colonies, nests and eggs particularly in the Hebrides and Shetland; fishing boats, particularly from Banff: close up of fishing boat in harbour with fishermen "Shaking Herring Nets"; portraits of Scottish East Coast Fisherman.

Notes proving further information about some these photographs can be found in MS 180/5

Picture of whale and fishermen.