Lectures
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
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
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Identifier: Coll-11/C1
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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
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
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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
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1 & 2, 11 May 1895-16 May 1923
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Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1 & 2.
‘Paper read to E.M.E.S. [Edinburgh Musical Education Society], 13 January 1915’, text on reverses of various recital programmes, mainly from Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s Art Song recitals in 1905-1907, some pages missing, manuscript.
‘Matthay Paper to Boston, M.K.F. [Marjory Kennedy-Fraser]’, manuscript, letter from Mr C....
Dates:
11 May 1895-16 May 1923
Miscellaneous items, Part 1, 2, & 3, 1891-1928
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Miscellaneous items, Part 1, 2, & 3.
‘General’, bundle of miscellaneous notes, wrapped in ‘Songs of the Hebrides (Ancient Scots Minstrelsie). From the Western Isles of Scotland’, Music Hall, Edinburgh, 21 January 1913, recital programme, containing various lecture notes, notes, excerpts, etc., in no particular order, manuscripts. & typescripts, texts often on reverses of...
Dates:
1891-1928
Notebook entitled "Notes of Lectures on Moral Philosophy by Adam Ferguson L.L.D.", 1782-1783
Item — Box CLX-A-387
Identifier: Coll-1848/22-0056
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Notebook entitled "Notes of Lectures on Moral Philosophy by Adam Ferguson L.L.D. in 4 Volumes. Vol 4th Edinburgh 1782-3". Author unknown (initials "JJ"). Later pencil scribbling on p. 9: "Thomas Loughlin" - perhaps a later owner of the notebook.A neatly presented contemporary manuscript copy (with slight variations) of the sixth and seventh parts of Adam Ferguson's Institutes of Moral Philosophy. For the use of students in the College of Edinburgh...
Dates:
1782-1783
Notebook No.94, October 1841 - December 1841
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/94
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This notebook contains field and travel notes by Charles Lyell while in North America, traveling between Philadelphia and Boston. There are multiple sketches and sections of geological formations, notes of lecture tickets and items 'to do' on certain dates, notes referring to lectures attended, and items borrowed. Page 67 is a sketch which appears to be Lyell planning the coloured illustration of Niagara as featured in 'Travels'. Page 74 appears to show the layout of Lyell's...
Dates:
October 1841 - December 1841
Notebook No.155, January 1848 - May 1848
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/155
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This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s discussions, ideas, and recordings when in London, starting in January 1848 and including some focus on ’Americana’ before his second travels in American was published in 1849. The first pages (and from p 78] are notes on pages and references relating to the other American notebooks - which could be publishing related or organisational. It covers conversations, queries, and discussions he started in America including geological,...
Dates:
January 1848 - May 1848
Notebooks Containing Sermons Preached at Duns
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2269
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Notes for sermons and lectures delivered at Duns [Dunnikier], Scotland, but also at Alloa, Burntisland, Cairney, Leith, Leven, Methven, Milnathort and Pathhead, probably by a secessionist minister. Two other preachers, Mr Armstrong and Mr Smart are mentioned, 21 August 1773 (p.18) and 25 August 1776 (p.180). 18 July 1773 - 25 Aug 1776. 2 vols.
Dates:
1773-1775
Notebooks of James Erskine (1730-1761), Burgher minister at Stirling
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Identifier: MS ERS J1
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Two notebooks, written almost entirely in shorthand but with some titles in English and Latin. Both bear the former shelfmark 'MH.2/7'MS ERS J1.1 - 1746. Containing a note on the front board 'James Erskine, his Book. February 26 1746. Lectures and Sermons by my Father [Ralph Erskine]'. Some slips and additions pinned in place.MS ERS J1.2 - 1748. Front board has an extended index in Latin, but rest of the volume is shorthand. Back board has the name 'R. Meikljohn' in a...
Dates:
c.1746-c.1748
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Notes from lectures by W.R. Piggott, 1944
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Identifier: Coll-37/E.89
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Notes from lectures by W.R. Piggott. The material consists of a hardcover springback folder containing 75 pages, plus a 3 page appendix typescript account with lists of references and contents, beginning 'The following appendix consists fundamentally of notes taken by myself at a series of lectures delivered by Mr. W.R. Piggott of D.S.I.R. [Department of Scientific and Industrial Research] in October 1944'. The account is not signed, and there are manuscript corrections in more than one...
Dates:
1944