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Student lecture notes

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

Found in 119 Collections and/or Records:

Maclagan (Sir Douglas). Notes of Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence and Forensic Medicine, 1883

 Item — Volume Dk.3.25
Identifier: Coll-2255/8
Scope and Contents

Creator: Taylor, William, fl. 1883 (student); Maclagan, Sir Andrew Douglas, 1812-1900 (Scottish surgeon, toxicologist)

Maclagan (Sir Douglas). Notes of Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence and Forensic Medicine taken by W. Taylor in Edinburgh University in 1883. 1 volume.

Dates: 1883

Maclagan (Sir Douglas). Notes of Lectures on Poisons, 1883

 Item — Volume Dk.3.26
Identifier: Coll-2255/9
Scope and Contents

Creator: Taylor, William, fl. 1883 (student); Maclagan, Sir Andrew Douglas, 1812-1900 (Scottish surgeon, toxicologist)

Maclagan (Sir Douglas). Notes of Lectures on Poisons taken by W. Taylor in Edinburgh University in 1883. 1 volume.

Dates: 1883

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

Manuscript volume entitled "Notes on Cattle Pathology from Prof. Strangeway's Lectures", taken down by Thomas Smith and copied by George Greig Jr., 1869

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0048
Scope and Contents

Manuscript volume of lecture notes, entitled: "Notes on Cattle-Pathology from Professor Dr Strangeways' Lectures. By Thomas Smith. Edinburgh 1860-61. Copied by George Greig Jr 1869". This title occurs midway through the volume, on p. 244, therefore it may not refer to earlier pages. The first page's title reads, "Anatomy of the Animal Body".

Dates: 1869

Manuscript volumes of lectures entitled "Prelectiones theologicae" by William and Robert Hamilton

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2906
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of five volumes of notes in Latin from the lectures of William Hamilton, Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh in 1709-1732, and of his son, Robert Hamilton, Professor of Divinity at the same University in 1754-1779. Vols. I, III, IV, and V are from the lectures of Robert Hamilton, and Vol. II from the lectures of William Hamilton.

Dates: 1709-1779

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

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