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Lectures and Lecturing

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

Found in 378 Collections and/or Records:

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

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1, 2, 3, & 4, 12 August 1895-5 November 1918

 File
Scope and Contents Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1, 2, 3, & 4. ‘Schubert Lecture’, 21 November 1903, modified and re-read two years later [1905], also various notes, and Schumann lecture, [23 January 1904], manuscripts. ‘When asked by your secretary to read a paper before you [...]’, lecture, undated, manuscript. ‘On listening to music’, lecture, [Edinburgh] Summer Meeting,...
Dates: 12 August 1895-5 November 1918

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1 & 2, 1808-17 August 1896

 File
Scope and Contents Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1 & 2. ‘Gibbon and the Madrigalists’, lecture, also one edited copy, undated, typescripts. ‘Lawes and the Monodists’, lecture, undated, typescript. ‘Purcell and the Dramatists’, lecture, two slightly edited copies, undated, typescripts. ‘Arne and the Eighteenth Century Composers’, lecture,...
Dates: 1808-17 August 1896

Martin Luther, the man and his work, 1914

 File
Identifier: BAI 1/4/1/15
Scope and Contents

Set of 6 lectures by John Baillie on Martin Luther, given to the Bible Class at Broughton Place Church.

Dates: 1914

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

Material relating to Waddington's lectures, 1955-1974

 Series
Identifier: Coll-41/3
Scope and Contents

The material includes: correspondence and lecture invitations, draft typescripts of lectures and research materials. Most of the files of correspondence contain original letters from correspondents, as well as manuscript or carbon copies of Waddington's responses.

Dates: 1955-1974