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Notes from Lectures by Joseph Black

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Identifier: Coll-1852
Scope and Contents Set of three volumes containing lectures given by Joseph Black, beginning 30 Oct 1782. In volume one, the lectures are numbered 1 through to 29, in volume two from 30 to 75, and in volume three from 76 to 118. The volumes are paginated, and bound between pages of the first one is a fold-out drawing, dated 1784, of a thermometer, marked with properties/states of various substances at specific temperatures.The author of the volumes is unknown but was almost certainly one of Black's...
Dates: 1782 - c 1787
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes from lectures by Thomas Charles Hope and Joseph Black

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Identifier: Coll-1369
Scope and Contents

1 volume of lecture notes (1796-1797) taken down at lectures given by both TC Hope and Joseph Black

Dates: 1796-1797
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes from lectures on climate, geology and zoology given by Robert Jameson

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Identifier: Coll-1372
Scope and Contents

2 volumes of approximately 180 pages each: a careful transcription, with some diagrams, of lectures in climate, geology and zoology.

Both bear the book plate from the library of the Rev William Dansey, Rector of Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire, though there is nothing to suggest Dansey had been a student of Jameson's

Dates: early 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes in shorthand of David Gregory's clinical lectures

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Identifier: Coll-1106
Scope and Contents

The lectures are noted as having been taken down in 1705. They are written in shorthand. Type of shorthand is unknown. The writer is unknown. The notes in the volume cover 228 pages. Title page statesNotes of Gregory's clinical lectures. There is a rear index of contents in longhand.

Note: James Gregory (d.1731) is probably the only Gregory among this fanous family able to have actually given lectures in 1705.

Dates: 1705
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of botany lectures given by Daniel Rutherford, taken down by person unknown

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Identifier: Coll-1929
Scope and Contents

Red notebook containing notes taken at Dr Rutherford's botanical lectures in May 1790.

Dates: May 1790
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of Dr. Arthur Logan Turner Lectures

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Identifier: Coll-1072
Scope and Contents The collection of notes, contained within one volume, were written between 6 October 1910 and 8 December 1910. The notes deal with diseases of the ear, diseases of the nose, and diseases of the larynx. There are one or two small note insertions in the volume.There is a letter inserted into the volume. It is from Dr. Douglas Guthrie (Edinburgh, 1964) to Dr. Dennison thanking him for allowing him to see the lecture notes and for letting him compare them with his own notes...
Dates: 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of Dr Geoffrey Finlayson Reader in Modern History Glasgow University

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Identifier: Coll-1626
Scope and Contents

The notebook bears the badge and motto of Glasgow University - Via Veritas Vita. The content is ms, pen.

The front cover, inside, is noted 'Geoffrey Finlayson / Scottish Specl Subject', and the notes are divided into: Medieval Scottish Government; Central Government; and a collection of notes at the rear. The dominant year appears to be 1956.

Dates: 1956
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of Dr. Joseph Black's Philosophical Lectures on Chemistry

 Fonds — Container: CLX-A-351
Identifier: Coll-1847
Scope and Contents

Three volumes of notes on Dr. Joseph Black's lectures on chemistry. The full title is: 'Notes of Dr. Black's Philosophical Lectures on Chemistry, Corrected and enlarged by the joint labor of George Buchan Hepburn and Alexander Law, advocates'. Manuscript, in a neat and legible hand, of notes of Black's course of 57 lectures on chemistry delivered from 13th June to 22nd December 1775.

Dates: 1775
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of lecture entitled "A Few Observations upon Materia Medica" given by Professor Charles Alston, taken down by Henry Blegborough

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.5.12
Identifier: Coll-2192
Scope and Contents

Notes of lecture on "A Few Observations upon Materia Medica" given by Professor Charles Alston, taken down by Henry Blegborough, 1754.

Dates: 1754
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of lectures by Charles Alston, with bookplates of Alexander Russell

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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: 1733
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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