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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 notes on medical lectures taken at the University of Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2119
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of 18 volumes of manuscript notes taken at medical lectures at the University of Edinburgh between 1873 and 1874. At the front of each volume the subject of the lecture and the name of the lecturer is provided.The subjects covered are:
Pathology (Vols. I-IV);
Materia Medica (Vols. I-II);
Midwifery (Vols. I-IV);
Surgery (Vols I, II, and V only);
Clinical Surgery (Vols. I-II);
Practice of Physic...
Dates:
1873-1874
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
Fonds
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
Fonds
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