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Monro, Alexander, primus
MS volume of Alexander Monro primus' History of Anatomy 1747
Ms volume of genealogies of Scottish families, drawn up by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh
This genealogical manuscript volume relating to Scottish families, by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, bears the bookplate of Robert Graham, a literary patron of Robert Burns.
The title-page is noted as...: "A collection of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland, drawn from their own charters [...] By Sir George Mackenzie".
264 manuscript leaves, contemporary quarter calf over boards.
Notebook on legal matters, including copy of transcript of the trial of Capt. John Porteous
Notebooks of James Erskine (1730-1761), Burgher minister at Stirling
Notebooks of lectures at the University of Edinburgh, taken down by Robert Low Orr and William J. Orr
Notes from lectures on climate, geology and zoology given by Robert Jameson
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
Notes of medical lectures by Andrew Duncan Senior and Thomas Young, taken down by person unknown
Two volumes containing notes of lectures on midwifery by Thomas Young given in 1763-1764, and notes of lectures on 'the practice of physic' given by Andrew Duncan Snr in 1778.
Nouveaux souvenirs d'Holyrood
The unsigned letters, mostly from Edinburgh, were all written during November or December 1831. They describe a trip from Paris to Edinburgh, and life among the French refugees there. Although the last word has been obliterated, an inscription reads: 'Quoique l'auteur ne se nomme pas, tout le monde le reconnait pour M. le Baron de [...]'. On the inside of the front cover is pasted a note reading, 'Pour mes pauvres petites filles de France', and signed Louise.
Oral history recordings made as part of the 'Towards Dolly' project
Contains: Alan Archibald interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Adrian Bird interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Grahame Bulfield and William G. Hill in conversation; Grahame Bulfield interview (with Clare Button); Nick Hastie interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Peter Sharp interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Andrew Tait interview (with Grahame Bulfield); Gerald Wiener interview (with Clare Button); Ian Wilmut interview (with Grahame Bulfield).