Verso: Typed text - "One-Time Home of Logarithm Inventor is Centre of New British Technical College - Library of the new Napier College in the centre of Scotland's capital of Edinburgh. The college is built round the 400-years-old Merchison castle. Once the home of John Napier, the inventor of the Logarithmic system of mathematics, the building was used after his death as a public school. Recently it became the administrative block of the new 2.5 million Napier College, new blocks of laboratories and classrooms being built to incorporate this piece of science history into the new college as a functional part and not merely a relic... (more text)"