Orkney Library: 1994 Accessions

Orkney Library

• D 1/279: volume. Rental of the Earldom of Orkney 1740
• D1/282: Eight notebooks of Orkney dialect words collected by Mrs Johina Leith, Stenness c1950-60
• D68: Professor Ronald Miller collection. (Professor Miller, Geography Department, University of Glasgow - a native of Orkney)
• D69: Bill & Bessie Skea, Sanday (Sanday place-names, dialect, minutes of Young Mens Literary Society)
• D70: Orkney Heritage Society - Fereday prize essays (competition open to secondary school pupils for original local history research)
• D71: Minutes of Rousay Scottish Womens Rural Institute 1937- 1979
• OCR 14/113-118: St Magnus Cathedral Kirk Session accounts 1944-1986
• D6: Additional records of Samuel Baikie & Co., timber merchants, Kirkwall