New to our Student Publication collection on the Internet Archive is 113 full colour issues of the McGill Outlook. This student publication was the successor of the Fortnightly (1892-1898) and appeared everything Thursday of the collegial year from 1898-1907. Issues includes reports from various student societies, class reports and advertising matter.
Front page of McGill Outlook Vol. 01 No. 01: September 29, 1898
McGill Outlook collection of 113 issues.
It begins!
Last winter we were able to digitize over 50 rolls of microfilm containing over 9,000 issues of the McGill Daily. Starting with their very first issue from October 2nd, 1911 we are going to be spending the summer uploading just over 9,000 issues dating to 2001 to our new Internet Archive collection of McGill Student Publications. Check back often during the summer as we’ll be uploading a few hundred issues each day.
The McGill Daily Vol. 01 No. 001: October 2, 1911 was a little worse for wear when it was microfilmed but it is still searchable.
This project is part of larger project to showcase the unique material that has been published by McGill students. When we have finished all of the issues of the McGill Daily we’ll start uploading the predecessors publications that date back to 1873 from our archives including McGill (University) Gazette (1873-1890), the McGill Fortnightly (1892-1898), the McGill Outlook (1898-1907) and the (McGill) Martlet (1908-1911). We also plan on adding the already digitized McGilliad (1930-1931) and the McGill Fortnightly Review (1925-1926).
McGill Student Publications collection https://archive.org/details/mcgilluniversitystudentpublications
If you are curious about what student life was like on McGill’s Macdonald Campus back in the 1950s and 60s we’ve got 222 issues of The failt-ye times online.
You can consult the original papers at the Macdonald Campus library on level one during regular library hours.
Various sizes of letters and notes bound together. Written by Sir Thomas Browne and collected by Sir W. Osler.
You can download all of the letters and notes from our catalogue or you can see the originals by visiting the Olser Library of the History of Medicine during opening hours.
Page 41 Ostrich’s head drawing. Thomas Browne, Sir. (ca.1659-1682.) Manuscripts in English, on paper. Older Library of the History of Medicine niche. folio B884m 1659-1682
Page 43 “Ostrich’s head within”.
Thomas Browne, Sir. (ca.1659-1682.) Manuscripts in English, on paper. Older Library of the History of Medicine niche. folio B884m 1659-1682
Page 13. Thomas Browne, Sir. (ca.1659-1682.) Manuscripts in English, on paper. Older Library of the History of Medicine niche. folio B884m 1659-1682
Page 3 bibliographic notes. Thomas Browne, Sir. (ca.1659-1682.) Manuscripts in English, on paper. Older Library of the History of Medicine niche. folio B884m 1659-1682
New to our digital catalogue via an Interlibrary loan request: Poster announcing schedule of celebrations planned to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Confederation, in Richmond, Québec.
Poster has type set so that words which are identical in English and French appear only once, printed in the middle of the sheet, e.g. Confederation, Richmond; the English text can be read down the left side of the sheet, the French text down the right side.
Dates 1867 and 1927 not printed next to each other, but one on each side of “Confederation”.
Richmond County Citizens’ Association (Québec). (1927). Confederation, 1867-1927: Diamond jubilee grand celebration, July 1st, 1927, Richmond, under the auspices of the County Citizens’ Association.
You can download the poster our catalogue or you can see the original by visiting the Rare Book and Special Collections reading room during opening hours.
New to our digital catalogue: Macer Floridus : a section of the medieval herbal, on 2 damaged leaves] came to us from the Olser Library of the History of Medicine by way of a researcher request. The cataloguing notes tell us the herbal has been attributed erroneously to Macer Floridus. In double columns, containing 288 hexameter lines, which correspond to chapters 65-73, Piper-Costus and to chapters 36, Caulis, 34, Bugloss, 38, Origanum, 46, Asarum, in Pictorius’s ed.: Basel, 1559. Except for 2 leaves (shown below), the vol. is of blank paper which we left in the PDF; with coloured capitals.
![Macer, . (1300). Macer Floridus: [a section of the medieval herbal, on 2 damaged leaves].](https://blogs.library.mcgill.ca/digitization/files/2015/03/osl_Floridus-medieval-herbal_BibOsl7587-001.jpg)
Macer, . (1300). Macer Floridus: [a section of the medieval herbal, on 2 damaged leaves].
![Macer, . (1300). Macer Floridus: [a section of the medieval herbal, on 2 damaged leaves].](https://blogs.library.mcgill.ca/digitization/files/2015/03/osl_Floridus-medieval-herbal_BibOsl7587-003.jpg)
Macer, . (1300). Macer Floridus: [a section of the medieval herbal, on 2 damaged leaves].
![Macer, . (1300). Macer Floridus: [a section of the medieval herbal, on 2 damaged leaves].](https://blogs.library.mcgill.ca/digitization/files/2015/03/osl_Floridus-medieval-herbal_BibOsl7587-002.jpg)
Macer, . (1300). Macer Floridus: [a section of the medieval herbal, on 2 damaged leaves].
![Macer, . (1300). Macer Floridus: [a section of the medieval herbal, on 2 damaged leaves].](https://blogs.library.mcgill.ca/digitization/files/2015/03/osl_Floridus-medieval-herbal_BibOsl7587-004.jpg)
Macer, . (1300). Macer Floridus: [a section of the medieval herbal, on 2 damaged leaves].
New to our digital catalogue: A new map of the Island of Barbadoes by Phillip Lea (1666-1700) published in1682. If you’re planning on using it for navigation pay attention – the top of the map faces west rather than the usual north. 
You can download the map from our catalogue or you can see come see the original by visiting the Rare Book and Special Collections reading room during opening hours.
New to our digital catalogue: Found inside the ‘The princess baker’ by William Lunan & Son (1879) in our Cookbook Collection, Rare Books and Special collections.
Inside cover. William Lunan & Son. (1879). The princess baker.
Page 2. William Lunan & Son. (1879). The princess baker.
To read the whole 16 page booklet and find some great recipes you can download it from our catalogue or you can see the original by visiting our Rare Book and Special Collections reading room during opening hours.
Our Rare Books and Special Collections copy of Newton’s Opticks was one of the first things we digitized years ago. Recently we went back to the archival master files and reprocess the pages in full colour to enhance the readability of the marginalia. Sometimes cited as McGill MS 46 this is Newton’s own copy with extensive manuscript additions and corrections.
You can download the full book from our catalogue or you can see the original by visiting the Rare Book and Special Collections reading room during opening hours.
Page 139. Newton, Isaac, Samuel Smith, and Benjamin Walford. 1704. Opticks. London: Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford, printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince’s Arms in St. Paul’s Church-yard. McGill University Library Rare Books & Special Collections.
Page 73. Newton, Isaac, Samuel Smith, and Benjamin Walford. 1704. Opticks. London: Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford, printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince’s Arms in St. Paul’s Church-yard. McGill University Library Rare Books & Special Collections.
Page 35. Newton, Isaac, Samuel Smith, and Benjamin Walford. 1704. Opticks. London: Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford, printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince’s Arms in St. Paul’s Church-yard. McGill University Library Rare Books & Special Collections.
Travelling Library bookplate. Book no. 26. Date received 1901. McGill University Library. Rare Books and Special Collections.
Beginning in 1899, this travelling library was supported by the McLennan family and administered by McGill University. It operated mainly in rural Quebec. In 1978 its functions were absorbed by the programme of the Bibliothèque centrale de l’Estrie.
— Summary from the description of Record Group no. 40 from Volume one of ‘A Guide to Archival Resources at McGill University’. McGill University Archives. 1985.
Want to see more vintage McGill library bookplates? We’ve put a small selection on Pinterest for easy browsing from the Philippe Masson Collection of Ex Libris digital collection.