Lectures
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Fonds
Identifier: MS ERS J1
Scope and Contents
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
File
Identifier: Coll-37/E.89
Scope and Contents
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
Notes on the Anatomy and Surgery lectures of Henry Cline and Astley Cooper, taken down by Robert Bickersteth
Collection
Identifier: Coll-1824
Scope and Contents
These ms notes of the lectures on Anatomy and Surgery given by Henry Cline (1750-1827) and Astley Cooper (1768-1841) were taken down by Robert Bickersteth. Cline was a surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and Cooper was a surgeon in London too.
The notes are in ink, sometimes on both recto and verso of the leaf, but usually on the rectos only. There are occasional drawings.
Dates:
1805-1806
Notes taken at lectures on Cicero by John Pringle
Collection — Volume Gen.74
Identifier: Coll-1726
Scope and Contents
Notes taken by R. Brown at lectures on Cicero given by John Pringle. Near complete transcript here.
Dates:
1741
Packet labelled "Lecture notes. Lecture III. Applied Anatomy. Embryonic Membranes and Placenta" containing loose pages of notes on this subject and on "Clavicular Joints", n.d.
File
Identifier: Coll-11/B7
Scope and Contents
7. Packet labelled "Lecture Notes. Lecture III. Applied Anatomy. Embryonic Membranes and Placenta." containing loose pages of notes on this subject and on "Clavicular joints".
Dates:
n.d.
Papers of Hugh Ross Mackintosh (1870-1936), Professor of Divinity, New College, Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: MS MCK 6
Scope and Contents
Papers of Hugh Ross Mackintosh (1870-1936), Professor of Divinity at New College, Edinburgh.6.1 - Manuscript notebook titled 'The Ritschlian doctrine of theoretical and religious knowledge'. Thesis presented to the University of Edinburgh for the degree of Doctor in Philosophy. 1 February, 1897. 83 numbered pages, plus table of contents and works cited.6.2.1 - Letter of Norman Kemp Smith to H. R. Mackintosh. Edinburgh, 9 October 1919. 8 pages.6.2.2 -...
Dates:
1897-1927
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections