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Minutes of the Edinburgh University Darwinian Society

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.3.3
Identifier: Coll-2165
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh University. Darwinian Society Minutes. 1891-1896. Several hands, entries in ink and pencil. Includes printed syllabus for Winter Session 1892-93 on f. 67.

Dates: 1891-1896
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Minutes of the Inter-Collegiate Conference of the United Free Church Theological Colleges

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Identifier: MS INT
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Inter-Collegiate Conference 1924-32 and of the Inter-Collegiate Executive Committee 1932-52 for United Free Church Theological Colleges. Executive Committee minutes for 1944 and 1947 wanting.

Colleges listed as participants: St Mary's College, St Andrews New College, Edinburgh Trinity College, Glasgow Christ's College, Aberdeen

Dates: 1924-1952
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Monro, Alexander, primus

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-2
Scope and Contents

MS volume of Alexander Monro primus' History of Anatomy 1747

Dates: 1747
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Ms volume of genealogies of Scottish families, drawn up by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1568, Volume: Coll-1802 / SC-Acc-2017-0034
Identifier: Coll-1802
Content Description

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.

Dates: c 1636-1691
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notebook containing press cuttings of reviews of Archibald Stewart’s History Vindicated in the case of the Wigtown martyrs

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.7.42
Identifier: Coll-2225
Scope and Contents

Stewart (A.) Notebook containing press cuttings of reviews of Dr Archibald Stewart's History Vindicated in the case of the Wigtown martyrs. etc. 1867 and 1869.

Dates: 1867-1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notebook on legal matters, including copy of transcript of the trial of Capt. John Porteous

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1244
Scope and Contents Much of this notebook contains a part-copy of the transcript of the trial as it was published in Edinburgh, 1818, in - Criminal Trials Illustrative Of The Tale Entitled The Heart Of Mid-Lothian: Published From The Original Record . Also in the notebook are some law notes on Cox v. Coleridge and the Rights of Allornies (or Attornies?); Rex v. Inhabitants of Middlesex; and, the Assizes at Lewes. There are also notes from Lacon, or Many...
Dates: 1818-1824
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 of lectures by Neil MacMichael (1808-1874), Professor of Ecclesiastical History, United Presbyterian Divinity Hall taken by John Mitchell Harvey (1836-1876)

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MCM
Scope and Contents Notes taken at lectures by Neil MacMichael, given at the United Presbyterian Hall during the session of 1859. Session commenced 3 August 1859, and terminatedVarious pagination, restarting with some lectures. c. 230 pages total. Spine title reads: Notes on Church History [and] doctrine, J. M. H.Bound together with an Essay on the doctrine of baptismal regeneration. United Presbyterian Hall, Edinburgh. 31 August 1860. J. Mitchell Harvey, 5th Year. 108 pages....
Dates: 1859-1860
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Notes of Lectures given by Robert Jameson

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.5.23
Identifier: Coll-2199
Scope and Contents

Lectures on Natural History by Professor Robert Jameson, Edinburgh University. 1835-36. Only includes lectures on Meteorology and Hydrology.

Dates: 1835-1836
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Nouveaux souvenirs d'Holyrood

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1181
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1831
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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