Lectures and Lecturing
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of recordings (78rpm) of a lecture given by Sir Godfrey Thomson in 1950
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1448
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 5 (lacquer) acetate 78 rpm records containing a recording of a lecture on University teaching given by Godfrey H. Thomson in 1950.
Dates:
1950
Engineering notes of Dr. Russell A. Leather, Edinburgh University student, graduating 1952
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1421
Scope and Contents
The content of the 1st and 2nd year engineering note-books (laboratory books) of Dr. Russell A. Leather reflect the wide approach in studies which covered mechanical devices, steel structures and electrical technology. The books include graphwork, drawings, and photographs of late-1940s laboratory equipment at Kings Buildings (1948-1949). Photographs feature the 'Riehle' testing machine', the 'Adie' cement testing machine, a torsion testing machine, the 'Ambler' compression machine, the...
Dates:
1948-1950
Lecture notes of Robert Sutherland
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1102
Scope and Contents
The collection at E2006.44 contains lecture notes taken while Sutherland attended Edinburgh University in the late-1940s and early-1950s. The material includes:
- Minute Book of the Dining Club
- Lecture notes on Evidence and Pleading
- Lecture notes on Political Science
- Lecture notes on Conveyancing, International Private Law
-...
Dates:
1947-1951
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
Material collected by Marian Cooke
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1445
Scope and Contents
Twelfth International Congress of Pyschology programme, 1948;
Twelfth International Confress of Psychology notes and provisional timetable of papers, 1948;
Proceedings and papers of the Twelfth International Congress of Psychology, 1948;
Short Letter to Cooke from Thomson regarding a diagram he asked her to duplicate, with the accompanying diagrams/graphs drawn by...
Dates:
1918-1955
Papers of Dr. E. W. M. Balfour-Melville
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-88
Scope and Contents
The papers of Evan Whyte Melville Balfour-Melville reflect his academic, public, and private interests. There are many bundles of notes both in manuscript and typescript; notebooks; and, correspondence. There are Edinburgh University examination papers; Heriot-Watt Minutes from the 1960s; and, Edinburgh Corporation Education Committee Minutes from the 1960s. The papers also include census material; records of persons placed on probation; material relating to the Historical Association of...
Dates:
circa 1910-1962
Papers of Peter Howard Jones, Professor of Philosophy
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1833
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of lecture courses, single lectures and notes (some revised and published later) delivered in the University of Edinburgh, or in its name elsewhere, by Professor Peter Jones FRSE, as Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Philosophy between 1964 and 1998, and as Emeritus Professor from 1998 onwards - including his unpublished Inaugural Lecture (1986) and Gifford Lectures (1995).Subjects of the lectures include, but are not limited to: Philosophy and...
Dates:
1964-1999; 2015
Papers of Rev. Earle Monteith Macphail
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-91
Scope and Contents
The papers at shelfmark Gen. 2044-2073 consist of notebooks of notes from lectures at Edinburgh University and in India, 1878-1890.At MSS 2592-2593 there are personal papers including correspondence, a school notebook of handwriting dated 1875, and a school fees receipt dated 1869; photographs; notes of Natural Philosophy classes, 1879; and, essays, 1879. There is material marking celebrations of Edinburgh University Tercentenary; material of the Dialectic Society and the...
Dates:
circa 1869-1930