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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...
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

Notes from Lectures by Joseph Black

 Fonds — Volume: Dc.2.41
Identifier: Coll-1852
Scope and Contents Single volume, though one that has been part of a larger set, containing lectures given by Joseph Black, beginning 30 Oct 1782. The lectures are numbered 1 through to 59, with and indication that they were continued in a further volume (not present). The volume is paginated and bound between pages is a fold-out drawing, dated 1784, of a thermometer, marked with properties/states of various substances at specific temperatures.The author of the volume is unknown but was almost...
Dates: 1782-c1784

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

Notes of lectures on 'Physiology for Ladies' given by Edward Henry Sieveking at Stamford Hill

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1918
Scope and Contents

Notes of lectures on 'Physiology for Ladies' given by Edward Henry Sieveking at Stamford Hill, taken by an unknown person in 1848.

Dates: 1848

Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham

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Identifier: Coll-11
Scope and Contents The papers cover the years 1876 to 1910 and contains a great many autograph letters from eminent anatomists and medical men, including ten letters from Joseph Lister. There is also a substantial sequence of notebooks and working papers containing detailed notes of experiments and dissections together with drawings and drafts for lectures, and a separate sequence of manuscripts for lectures and addresses. An item of particular interest is an album of 96 photographs from Cunningham's service...
Dates: c 1876-1910

Papers of Allan Maconochie (Lord Meadowbank) - Legal material

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Identifier: Coll-1137
Scope and Contents This is a collection of autograph manuscripts of Allan Maconochie (Lord Meadowbank). The manuscripts (1780s) consist largely of lectures and notes and many of the notes are incomplete or unfinished as it was the practice of Maconochie to finish in mid-sentence. The collection is composed of lecture/meeting notes on economics, law, government and society etc., and include those on: - the importance of...
Dates: 1780-1789

Papers of Andrew Nisbet Bogle

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1004
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of the following:in Box 1/9: - box containing Moderator's laces - offprints, being copies of: the Churches Conference, held at the Library Hall, New College, Edinburgh, and its 'Draft of Unity Act' 10 February 1927; Committee to Confer with the United Free Church of Scotland; Scottish Church Society and its 'Notes on the Basis and Plan of Union'; and, Principal...
Dates: 1892-1980

Papers of Dr. E. W. M. Balfour-Melville

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-88
Scope and Contents The papers of Evan Whyte Melville Balfour-Melville reflect his academic, public, and private interests. There are many bundles of notes both in manuscript and typescript; notebooks; and, correspondence. There are Edinburgh University examination papers; Heriot-Watt Minutes from the 1960s; and, Edinburgh Corporation Education Committee Minutes from the 1960s. The papers also include census material; records of persons placed on probation; material relating to the Historical Association of...
Dates: circa 1910-1962

Papers of Dr. Geoffrey D. Carnall

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-552
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of lectures on rhetoric, 1960-1964, and, transcript and correspondence on a teach-in on chemical and biological warfare, 24 January 1969, tape transcripts.The bulk of his papers were donated in 2015 (accession code E2015.91). They include correspondence with his colleagues and fellow activists as well as a few personal letters, lectures notes, proofs of publications, and pamphlets, newspaper cuttings, and correspondence relating to political causes he...
Dates: 1950s-1990s

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Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 2
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Aristotle, 384-322 BC (Greek philosopher) 1
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley, 1853-1922 (professor of botany, University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh) 1
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 1
Bogle, Very Reverend, Andrew Nisbet, 1868-1957 (Minister; Ex-Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland) 1
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 1
Carnall, Geoffrey D., 1927-2015 (Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University) 1
Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 1
Church of Scotland 1
Cooke, Marian, fl. 1946-1970 (secretary, Moray House College of Education) 1
Craufurd, Thomas, fl 1626-1662 (Regent of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Cunningham, Daniel John, 1850-1909 (professor of anatomy, Trinity College Dublin) 1
Currie, Sir Alastair Robert, 1921-1994 (Professor of Pathology, University of Edinburgh) 1
Dalgliesh, George, fl 1660-1662 (University of Edinburgh student) 1
Donaldson, Gordon, 1913-1993 (Scottish historian; Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography) 1
Edinburgh University Diagnostic Society 1
Edinburgh University Dialectic Society 1
Elborn, Geoffrey, 1950-2022 (biographer) 1
Heriot-Watt College (1885-1966) 1
Hume, David, 1711-1776 (Scottish Philosopher) 1
James I, 1394-1437 (King of Scotland) 1
Jones, Peter Howard, fl 1964-1999 (Professor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Leather, Russell A., Dr., b. 1924 (electrical engineer, former Chair of Gannochy Trust) 1
Lonsdale, Henry, 1816-1876 (Edinburgh University alumnus; physician) 1
MacMurray, John, 1891-1976 (chair of moral philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank, Allan, 1748-1816 (Scottish judge) 1
Macphail, Earle Monteith, 1861-1937 (Principal of Madras Christian College) 1
Malloch, James, fl. 1878-1879 1
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 1
McFarland, Henry Stewart Noel, 1924-1973 (educationist) 1
Melville, James Balfour, of Strathkinness, 1815-1897 1
Melville, John Whyte, of Bennochie and Strathkinness, c 1797-1883 1
Melville, Mary Louisa Balfour-, d 1930 (née Dundas) 1
Orrock, Alex (former owner of student lecture notes dated 1790) 1
Orrock, W W (former owner of student lecture notes dated 1790) 1
Peat, George, fl 1790 (Law student) 1
Pollock, Martin Rivers, 1914-1999 (professor of biology, University of Edinburgh) 1
Rice, David Talbot, 1903-1972 (art historian) 1
Sanders, William Rutherford, 1828-1881 (Scottish physician) 1
Sieveking, Edward Henry, 1816-1904 (English physician) 1
Simpson, Sir Alexander Russell, 1835-1916 (professor of midwifery, University of Edinburgh) 1
Sutherland, Robert, b. 1926 (Writer to the Signet, Notary Public) 1
The Scottish History Society (1886-) 1
Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 1
Turner, Sir William, 1832-1916 (anatomist, professor of anatomy and principal, University of Edinburgh) 1
University of Edinburgh, Department of Molecular Biology (1968-1990) (university department) 1
University of Edinburgh. Department of Pathology (1831-) 1
Wallace, Sir David James, b 1945 (British physicist; former Master of Churchill College) 1
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