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Student lecture notes

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

Found in 105 Collections and/or Records:

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

Notebook of John Mackintosh, Cambridge

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MCK 7
Scope and Contents

Manuscript notebooks, with notes of public lectures taken at Trinity College Cambridge, 1841-1842. Spine title of all three volumes reads 'Notes on Classics'.

Bookplate of MacKintosh bequest pasted to front boards

Dates: 1841-1842

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 — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1852
Scope and Contents Set of three volumes containing lectures given by Joseph Black, beginning 30 Oct 1782. In volume one, the lectures are numbered 1 through to 29, in volume two from 30 to 75, and in volume three from 76 to 118. The volumes are paginated, and bound between pages of the first one is a fold-out drawing, dated 1784, of a thermometer, marked with properties/states of various substances at specific temperatures.The author of the volumes is unknown but was almost certainly one of Black's...
Dates: 1782 - c 1787

Notes from lectures given by Professor Ewart, class of Natural History, University of Edinburgh, summer session 1882, taken down by G.G. Chisholm. Part I. Vertebrates, 1882

 Item
Identifier: Coll-68/5
Scope and Contents

Notes from lectures given by Professor Ewart, class of Natural History, University of Edinburgh, summer session 1882, taken down by G.G. Chisholm. Part I. Vertebrates; ms, 1 bound notebook.

Dates: 1882

Notes from lectures given by Professor Ewart, class of Natural History, University of Edinburgh, summer session 1882, taken down by G.G. Chisholm. Part II. Invertebrates, c 1924

 Item
Identifier: Coll-68/6
Scope and Contents

Notes from lectures given by Professor Ewart, class of Natural History, University of Edinburgh, summer session 1882, taken down by G.G. Chisholm. Part II. Invertebrates. With later notes and extracts inserted on a variety of unrelated topics (c.1924); ms, 1 bound notebook.

Dates: c 1924

Notes of botany lectures given by Daniel Rutherford, taken down by person unknown

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1929
Scope and Contents

Red notebook containing notes taken at Dr Rutherford's botanical lectures in May 1790.

Dates: May 1790