Notes of lectures by Charles Alston, with bookplates of Alexander Russell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1910
Scope and Contents
Three volumes of notes of lectures given by Charles Alston, entitled 'A treatise on the materia medica ... from the lectures of Charles Alston, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians and Professor of Botany at Edinburgh. 1733'. 183 x 165 mm, rebound. They bear the armorial bookplate of Alexander Russell, M.D. It is possible that this is the Alexander Russell that studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and graduated in 1779.
Dates
- Creation: 1733
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Open.
Full Extent
3 Volumes
Physical Location
Gen. 695-697
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased by the Library in 1963. Accession no E63/10.
Processing Information
Description created by Aline Brodin in April 2019.
Subject
- Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) (Presenter, Person)
Source
- Russell, Alexander, fl 1770s-1780s (medical student, University of Edinburgh) (Former owner, Person)
Cultural context
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Notes of lectures by Charles Alston, with bookplates of Alexander Russell, 1733
- Description rules
- Isad(g)2
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk