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Lothian Chambers, the new home of the French Consulate-General and the French Institute for Scotland on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. Logo of the Institut Français.. The French Institute (French: Institut français) in Edinburgh is a cultural centre promoting French language and French culture in Edinburgh and in Scotland and part of the wider Institut Français network around the world.
U.S. Route 11 is the main road passing through Edinburg, serving as Main Street. Virginia State Route 185 connects US 11 to Interstate 81, ...
The Edinburgh Geographical Institute building on Duncan Street in Newington, Edinburgh Around 1826 John Bartholomew Sr. opened a firm dedicated to the production of maps called 'John Bartholomew and Sons'.
The Roslin Institute has its roots in the University of Edinburgh's Institute of Animal Genetics (IAG), which was founded in 1917 under the direction of Francis Albert Eley Crew. [ 1 ] Poultry Research Centre (1947–1986)
The James Hutton Institute also formally contains Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS) which has staff based in Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Ayr. BioSS undertakes research, consultancy and training in mathematics and statistics as applied to agriculture, the environment, food and health. [ 5 ]
Bartholomew was the only survivor of a number of important map publishers in Scotland, and was known for a prolific output and variety of maps and atlases for academic, commercial and travel purposes, including the popular 62-sheet Half-Inch to One Mile map series of Great Britain, which transmuted into the 1:100,000 National map series in the 1970s.
At the end of the 19th century, the Society of Antiquaries relocated its museum to new premises on Queen Street (the building that now houses the Scottish National Portrait Gallery), while the Royal Society moved to 22-24 George Street, and in 1907, the Royal Institution moved to the new Edinburgh College of Art. [3]
At the library there are maps relating to many different kinds of landscapes, such as estates, counties, railways, maps which show the trenches of World War I, and alpine areas. The collections include: Over 1.5 million sheet maps; 15,000 atlases; 100,000 maps on microfilm; Over 200,000 digital maps; Gazetteers, cartographic reference books and ...