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Lecture notes and laboratory notebooks of David J Lockwood

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1845
Scope and Contents

Lecture notebooks and laboratory notebooks containing notes taken by David J Lockwood during his time as a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh in the 1970s. Also includes a manual on IMP routines for data handling.

Dates: 1972-1978
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lecture Notes of John Robison

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Identifier: Coll-204
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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lectures [by William Greenfield]

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Identifier: MS GRE
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Lectures on natural philosophy, 1794-1795. Pages are unnumbered, with several blank pages left between sections. The quarto volume has laid paper, with clear chainlines and a heraldic watermark. The entire volume is handwritten, with small diagrams and equations occasionally illustrating the prose.

Dates: 1794-1795
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 1, 1785

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Identifier: Coll1371/1
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Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.

Dates: 1785
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Thomas Charles Hope: Notes from lectures given by John Robison

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 2, 1785

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Identifier: Coll1371/2
Scope and Contents

Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.

Dates: 1785
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Thomas Charles Hope: Notes from lectures given by John Robison

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 3, 1785

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Identifier: Coll1371/3
Scope and Contents

Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.

Dates: 1785
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Thomas Charles Hope: Notes from lectures given by John Robison

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 4, 1785

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Identifier: Coll1371/4
Scope and Contents

Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.

Dates: 1785
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Thomas Charles Hope: Notes from lectures given by John Robison

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 5, 1785

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Identifier: Coll1371/5
Scope and Contents

Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.

Dates: 1785
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Thomas Charles Hope: Notes from lectures given by John Robison

Letter from Edward Appleton to 'Edward' and two letters from Ernest Rutherford to Edward Appleton, 1922, 1925, 1962

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Identifier: Coll-37/A.5
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Letter from Appleton to 'Edward' dated 1962 describing his award of The Wiltshire Prize for Geology and Mineralogy in his Cambridge Tripos in 1913.


Two letters from Ernest Rutherford to Edward Appleton. The first is dated 1922, recommending Appleton for 'The King's Professorship (N.B. Appleton became Wheatstone Professor at King's College, London, only in 1924), and the second is dated 1925, accepting his resignation as Assistant Demonstrator of the Cavendish Laboratory.

Dates: 1922, 1925, 1962
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Biographical and personal / Career, honours and awards

Letter from W.E.J. Farvis to Edward Appleton and notes for Appleton's lectures and a paper, 1953 and no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.69
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The material consists of letter from W. E. J. Farvis to Edward Appleton asking to repeat a course of lectures for the Diploma Course on the Ionosphere at University of Edinburgh, 1953; 2 sequences of manuscript notes by Appleton, both headed 'Lecture (1)’; ‘A note on some approximate ionospheric theorems’, a typescript and manuscript draft for a paper, however no paper of that title is listed amongst Appleton’s publications. The material is in its original folder.

Dates: 1953 and no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications / Notes and drafts for Edward Appleton's lectures and papers