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Collection of recordings (78rpm) of a lecture given by Sir Godfrey Thomson in 1950
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Identifier: Coll-1448
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 5 (lacquer) acetate 78 rpm records containing a recording of a lecture on University teaching given by Godfrey H. Thomson in 1950.
Dates:
1950
Edinburgh University notes on historical topics
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1498
Scope and Contents
Manuscript notes in three separate notebooks. One notebook has 'Costain and Watson. Vol.II from 1865' written in ink at the top of the front cover. The first page has notes entitled 'Exchequer and Audit Depts Act of 1865', and the next notes are entitled 'Ballot Act 1872'. Another notebook has 'Newcastle's Electioneering' written in ink at the top of the front cover, with the first page having notes entitled 'Essay on Cromwell's Principles of Gov' followed by lists of names - probably local...
Dates:
1910-1960
Engineering notes of Dr. Russell A. Leather, Edinburgh University student, graduating 1952
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1421
Scope and Contents
The content of the 1st and 2nd year engineering note-books (laboratory books) of Dr. Russell A. Leather reflect the wide approach in studies which covered mechanical devices, steel structures and electrical technology. The books include graphwork, drawings, and photographs of late-1940s laboratory equipment at Kings Buildings (1948-1949). Photographs feature the 'Riehle' testing machine', the 'Adie' cement testing machine, a torsion testing machine, the 'Ambler' compression machine, the 'Olsen'...
Dates:
1948-1950
John Macmurray Papers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-35
Scope and Contents
The Papers of John Macmurray contain manuscripts and typescripts of works; transcripts and offprints; lectures and lecture notes, sermons and addresses; exercise books, note books, and loose pages; material in binders and folders.
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Dates:
1922-1972
Lecture notes of Robert Sutherland
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1102
Scope and Contents
The collection at E2006.44 contains lecture notes taken while Sutherland attended Edinburgh University in the late-1940s and early-1950s. The material includes:
- Minute Book of the Dining Club
- Lecture notes on Evidence and Pleading
- Lecture notes on Political Science
- Lecture notes on Conveyancing, International Private Law
- Lecture notes...
Dates:
1947-1951
Lecture Notes, Rhetoric and English Literature, 1878-1879
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1125
Scope and Contents
On a title page of one of the two volumes the contents are stated as being notes of Edinburgh University, Rhetoric and English Literature 1878-1879, Historical Course, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The name of James Malloch appears there too. Similar information appears on a title page of the second volume. These contents are stated as being notes of Edinburgh University, Rhetoric and English Literature 1878-1879, Theoretical Course, Mondays and Tuesdays. This volume shows the name, James Malloch....
Dates:
1878-1879
Letters and notebooks of Dr. Henry Lonsdale, of Rosehill, Carlisle
Fonds — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: CLX-A-1582
Identifier: Coll-1820
Content Description
This collection contains two sets of material:1. Letters to Dr. Lonsdale, of Rosehill, Carlisle, and addressed variously to: Cumberland Infirmary; Marine Crescent, Waterloo, Liverpool; Playhouse Yard, Thomas Street, Scarbro'; and, Teviot Row, Edinburgh. The letters show that he was assembling information with a view to overseeing a biography of his mentor, John Reid. The collection of letters contains material which would have formed the core of such a work which never came to...
Dates:
1830s-1868
Manuscript Notes from David Hume's Lectures on Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2075
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of four volumes (numbered 1, 2, 5 and 6) with spine-labels reading "Hume's Lectures on the Scots Law". Topics include marriage, contracts, teinds, tack, adjudication, and succession in heritage. There are near-contemporary ownership inscriptions (Alex Orrock, Newton of Wemyss) to front pastedown of each volume.Vol. 1 and vol. 6 have numerous additional pages of later notes on agriculture and chemistry at the rear, and extracts from A. W. Kinglake's novel ...
Dates:
1790
Manuscript volume containing notes of lectures by Hugh Blair
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2064
Content Description
This is a manuscript volume containing notes of lectures by Hugh Blair, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh, taken down by an unknown student. It is dated 1770, and comprises 39 complete lectures.Hugh Blair published his lectures in 1783, but very few manuscripts of his teachings survive nowadays. He did not want any "bastardised" versions to survive, as he called them in his publications, and insisted in his will that all his personal papers be burnt...
Dates:
1770
Material collected by Marian Cooke
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1445
Scope and Contents
Twelfth International Congress of Pyschology programme, 1948;
Twelfth International Confress of Psychology notes and provisional timetable of papers, 1948;
Proceedings and papers of the Twelfth International Congress of Psychology, 1948;
Short Letter to Cooke from Thomson regarding a diagram he asked her to duplicate, with the accompanying diagrams/graphs drawn by...
Dates:
1918-1955
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