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Lectures and addresses on unidentified occasions, n.d.

 File
Identifier: Coll-11/C11
Scope and Contents

Lectures and addresses on unidentified occasions. The lectures are on scientific subjects, mainly the brain.

Dates: n.d.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham / Records of lectures, speeches and addresses

Lectures by Dugald Stewart

 Fonds — Box Gen.1987-1989
Identifier: Coll-1881
Scope and Contents

Three small, soft-bound volumes of notes taken at lectures on moral pholosophy given by Dugald Stewart, 1789-1790.

Dates: 1789-1790
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lectures [by William Greenfield]

 Fonds
Identifier: MS GRE
Scope and Contents

Lectures on natural philosophy, 1794-1795. Pages are unnumbered, with several blank pages left between sections. The quarto volume has laid paper, with clear chainlines and a heraldic watermark. The entire volume is handwritten, with small diagrams and equations occasionally illustrating the prose.

Dates: 1794-1795
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Lectures by William Peterkin (c.1743-1792), minister of Ecclesmachan

 Fonds
Identifier: MS PET 1
Scope and Contents

Volume containing written lectures on the Gospel according to Matthew. Lengthy lectures in a single clear italic hand. Occasional marginal notes refer to relevant biblical passages.
Date 11 June 1766 and index at the rear.
Quarto volume with 719 numbered pages [viii, 711].


From the General Assembly Library.

Dates: 1766
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

[Lectures] 'Lectures on the Romans', 23 July 1842

 Item
Identifier: MS CHA6/20/17
Dates: 23 July 1842
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 6, Manuscript writings and papers / Sermons, prayers, and lectures

Lectures of Robert Jameson (1774-1854), Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: MS JAM
Scope and Contents

Manuscript volume titled, 'Notes from the lectures of Professor Jameson on geology'. Contains a list of recommended books on geology on the first page. Diagrams included throughout.

Dates: c.1820
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Lectures on Geology, 1842-1861

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/B14
Scope and Contents See also the other series of papers on Lyell's lectures, which formed part of the original tranche gifted to the University in 1927. The items listed here were part of the Acceptence in Lieu (AIL) acquistion of 2020, however, it also contains material that came to the University with the 1927 gift, but, was dissassociated from that original material, coming in to the Library at a different time, and physically alongside the run of Lyell's Offprints. That material was assigned a reference,...
Dates: 1842-1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Lectures on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, [September 1819-November 1823]

 Item
Identifier: MS CHA6/18/9
Dates: [September 1819-November 1823]
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 6, Manuscript writings and papers / Sermons and lectures

Manuscript lecture beginning "It is with some diffidence that I come here to deliver my first lecture upon Physiology" - possibly lecture to the Royal Veterinary College of Edinburgh, c 1876

 File
Identifier: Coll-11/C1
Scope and Contents

Manuscript lecture beginning "It is with some diffidence that I come here to deliver my first lecture upon Physiology" - possibly lecture to the Royal Veterinary College of Edinburgh.

Dates: c 1876
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham / Records of lectures, speeches and addresses

Manuscript volume entitled "The History of Anatomy Containing a Brief Account of Its Rise and Progress From the Earliest age of the World to the present times"

 Fonds — Volume Dk.5.1
Identifier: Coll-2185
Scope and Contents Manuscript volume entitled: "The History of Anatomy Containing a Brief Account of Its Rise and Progress From the Earliest age of the World to the present times", continuing: "Wherein mention is made of the several authors who made Considerable Discoveries or Improvements in this Science, and likewise a Character Given of their Writings. Together with an Appendix Concerning the use of Anatomy in the Several Arts and Sciences, with ane [sic] Index to the whole Being the Publick Lectures of Mr...
Dates: c 1740
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections