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Chemistry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

2 glass negatives & prints featuring Dr Clerk Ranken

 Fonds — Folder EUA GD51
Identifier: EUA GD51
Content Description

Two glass negatives showing Clerk Ranken in a Chemistry laboratory, c1903, and in a group of students, c1905. Along with the negatives are two later prints of the same.

Dates: 1903-1905

A Law: notes from lectures on Chemistry by Joseph Black

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1374
Scope and Contents

The lectures on chemistry by Joseph Black consist of:


  1. 3 volumes of lecture notes (1775)
Dates: 1775

James Johnson: notes from lectures on chemistry by Joseph Black

 Fonds — Volume Dc.10.1
Identifier: Coll-1375
Scope and Contents

The lectures on chemistry by Joseph Black consist of:


  1. 1 volume of lecture notes (1770-1775)
Dates: 1770-1775

Lecture Notes of John Robison

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-204
Scope and Contents

Lecture notes from the time when Robison was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. The notes embrace the sciences of mechanics, hydrodynamics, astronomy and optics, together with electricity and magnetism.

It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.

Dates: c1779-c1801

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

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

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

Notes from lectures by Thomas Charles Hope and Joseph Black

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-1369
Scope and Contents

1 volume of lecture notes (1796-1797) taken down at lectures given by both TC Hope and Joseph Black

Dates: 1796-1797

Notes of Dr. Joseph Black's Philosophical Lectures on Chemistry

 Fonds — CLX-A-351: Series Coll-1835/21
Identifier: Coll-1847
Scope and Contents

Three volumes of notes on Dr. Joseph Black's lectures on chemistry. The full title is: 'Notes of Dr. Black's Philosophical Lectures on Chemistry, Corrected and enlarged by the joint labor of George Buchan Hepburn and Alexander Law, advocates'. Manuscript, in a neat and legible hand, of notes of Black's course of 57 lectures on chemistry delivered from 13th June to 22nd December 1775.

Dates: 1775

Notes of Lectures of Professor Crum Brown, taken down by George Burns

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1251
Scope and Contents

The two volumes forming the collection contain a set of notes on Professor Crum Brown's lectures taken in Winter Session 1892-3 by George Burns (then residing in Grange Road, Edinburgh), in a clear and legible hand. The volumes are labelled on first pages as; Chemistry 1; and, Chemistry 2. They are stamped on the spine as 'Note Book' and on the front boards with the University badge.

Dates: 1892-1893