Block plans showing proposed Naval Architecture, Natural Philosophy and Physiology departments

Scope and Content
Block plans showing unrealised proposals to provide buildings for Naval Architecture, Natural Philosophy and Physiology/Medicine. Includes plans by Charles E Wardlaw (1901), Burnet (1901 - 2), James Miller (1902) and William Robertson Copeland (1904).
Administrative / Biographical History
At the beginning of the twentieth century the University launched a fundraising campaign, this, along with contributions from the newly formed Carnegie Trust for Universities of Scotland, enabled the University to begin a new building programme. In 1903 an open competition was held to find a suitable design for a medical building to house the Physiology, Materia Medica, Forensic Medicine and Public Health departments; James Miller won with his Scots Renaissance style design. The Natural Philosphy building was designed by Burnet and constructed in 1906. After 1906, the Natural Philosophy department moved from the Main Building to their new premises designed by Burnet. Accordingly, the space in the southern wing of the main building was taken over by Naval Architecture, who had previously been accommodated in the Pearce Lodge.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically. Drawings for the Natural Philosphy, west Medical Building and Proposed Medical Building have been catalogued as separate series.

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