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A Law: notes from lectures on Chemistry by Joseph Black
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1374
Scope and Contents
The lectures on chemistry by Joseph Black consist of:
- 3 volumes of lecture notes (1775)
Dates:
1775
‘A Meditation occasion’d by the earthquake, at London…’ and ‘Thoughts on the Last Judgment…’
Fonds
Identifier: MS MED2
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1749-1753
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
A translation of "Physionomische fragmente" by Johann Caspar Lasater, with sketches
Item
Identifier: Coll-1956
Scope and Contents
A translation of "Physionomische fragmente" by Johann Caspar Lasater, with sketches. Watermark 1814. Bookplate of J. A. Jamieson.
Dates:
1814
Abstract of Journal of William Henry Playfair
Fonds — Volume: Dc.3.73
Identifier: Coll-1677
Content Description
The volume is concerned mainly with affairs connected with the building of the University of Edinburgh, 1817-1822. It also lists details of income and expenditure during the period and, refers to other projects, clients etc.Playfair's opening paragraph describes this as an abstract of a journal of "the principal transactions and events of my life, chiefly in order to prevent doubt and confusion in matters of business."The volume mentions Playfair taking occupancy of the Mathematics...
Dates:
1817-1822
Account of a trip to the Western Isles and St. Kilda
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1430
Scope and Contents
Manuscript account of a 'Pedestrian tour round the west coast of Scotland in 1849', in August of that year, followed by an account of a 'Trip aboard the Free Kirk Breadalbane yacht with 3 ministers to St. Kilda, Staffa, and back' in 1850.
The volume has inserted a monochromatically tinted sketch of St. Kilda
The volume has inserted a monochromatically tinted sketch of St. Kilda
Dates:
1849-1850
Account of a voyage to New South Wales on the ‘Neptune’ by James Mitchell (1792- ), ship’s surgeon
Fonds
Identifier: MS MIT3
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1820
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Action sermons by John Nimmo (c.1705-1784), minister of Johnstone, Annandale
Fonds
Identifier: MS NIM1
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
c.1749-1755
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Admission tickets to General Assemblies (1840-1843)
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 7.2
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Dates:
1840-1843
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Affleck, James Whigham
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-64
Scope and Contents
Papers regarding rehabilitation 1957-1988; membership of Boards 1969-1981; miscellaneous papers 1969-1988; published papers 1947-1989; slides; Royal Medico-Psychological Association material 1927
Dates:
1927-1989
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Album amicorum of Tokyo artists Japanese art
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1625
Scope and Contents
The album contains 22 paintings by various artists, and these include: an illustration of a swallow, a peony, a waterfall, a monkey, autumn leaves, a mandarin duck, a chrysanthemum, a sparrow on a flowering twig, a lobster, heavy rain, a flock of sparrows, a tea bowl and camellia, a shrimp, houses in the snow, a fan and handscroll, a white rabbit, and a basket.
Dates:
1820-1920
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