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Student lecture notes

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Notes taken down by students

Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:

Lecture notes of Patricia Townsend

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1859
Content Description This collection contains 10 files of largely complete lectures notes from Archaeology 1 & 2, Social Anthropology 1, 2 & 3, Fine Art 1, Metaphysics 1 and Computer Science 1. The files also contain essays, examination scripts, departmental tests, past papers, tutorial notes, personal notes on relevant books and articles, revision notes and typed departmental notes and course information. Two printed manuals entitled 'Notes on Imp Programming', part 1 and 2, are also...
Dates: 1974-1977

Lecture Notes, Rhetoric and English Literature, 1878-1879

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1125
Scope and Contents On a title page of one of the two volumes the contents are stated as being notes of Edinburgh University, Rhetoric and English Literature 1878-1879, Historical Course, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The name of James Malloch appears there too. Similar information appears on a title page of the second volume. These contents are stated as being notes of Edinburgh University, Rhetoric and English Literature 1878-1879, Theoretical Course, Mondays and Tuesdays. This volume shows the name, James...
Dates: 1878-1879

Lectures on chemistry by Thomas Charles Hope, taken down by E. W. Bennet

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1921
Scope and Contents

A volume containing the outline of a course of lectrues on chemistry given by Thomas Charles Hope, taken down by E. W. Bennet in 1822-23.

Dates: 1822-1823

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 relating to William Thompson Hall

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1559, Folder: SC-Acc-2016-0129
Identifier: Coll-1773
Content Description

Material relating to William Thompson Hall being notebooks and jotting pad. The latter is a small notebook with notes on 'Reasoning'. Two larger notebooks contain notes on Arts topics and Chemistry.

Dates: 1864-1865

Medical lecture notes of T. L. Kennish

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1908
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh University medical lecture notes taken down by T. L. Kennish, c 1880s.

Dates: 1880s

Notebooks of lectures at the University of Edinburgh, taken down by Robert Low Orr and William J. Orr

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1919
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of 20 notebooks containing notes on legal and medical lectures given at the University of Edinburgh, taken down by Robert Low Orr and William J. Orr. Also includes some class cards, exam papers, and ephemera of Robert Low Orr. Robert Low Orr: Lectures on Metaphysics (Fraser) Robert Low Orr: Law lectures (Muirhead, Macpherson) Robert Low Orr: Scots law...
Dates: 1873-1886

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