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Lectures and Lecturing

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Found in 399 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook No.117, 1 August 1844 - 18 September 1844

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/117
Scope and Contents This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 1 August to 18 September 1844 while in London. It then continues through 26 September to 2 October in York. He visits T.S. Spedding at Mirehouse on Bassenthwaite. The final section of the notebook, through 21 October, pertains to Lyell and Michael Faraday’s participation in an inquiry of the 1844 Haswell coal mine explosion that killed 95 people. Notes are in a mixture of pencil and ink. The notebook index is located in the back of the...
Dates: 1 August 1844 - 18 September 1844
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.180, October 1852 - October 1852

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/180
Scope and Contents Notebook 180 begins in mid-October and ends in late December 1852. Lyell is in the United States, traveling in the Boston area and giving a six-week lecture series for the Lowell Institute. In the first half of the notebook, Lyell is working with Louis Agassiz and Jeffries Wyman to identify the bones found while in Joggins, Nova Scotia. On December 1st, the Lyells departed on the steamship Asia for Liverpool, arriving on December 12th. The last section of the notebook continues with geologic...
Dates: October 1852 - October 1852
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notes and text apparently for lectures mainly on North American trade, 1913-1916

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Identifier: Coll-68/69
Scope and Contents

Notes and text apparently for lectures mainly on North American trade; related press cuttings tipped in (dated 1913-16); ms, 1 bound notebook.


Reference according to Chisholm's alpha-numerical system: 13

Dates: 1913-1916
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Notes and text apparently for lectures on ‘changes in British industry since the industrial revolution’ (Lects. I-II), ‘Modern Scotland’, ‘Geographical boundaries’, and ‘central Europe’; ‘Supplementary lecture to economic geography I students on British commerce in food, manufactures, and goods of foreign and colonial origin’; a few notes on Canada, [1910's]

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Identifier: Coll-68/75
Scope and Contents

Notes and text apparently for lectures on ‘changes in British industry since the industrial revolution’ (Lects. I-II), ‘Modern Scotland’, ‘Geographical boundaries’, and ‘central Europe’; ‘Supplementary lecture to economic geography I students on British commerce in food, manufactures, and goods of foreign and colonial origin’; a few notes on Canada; [1910s]; ms, 1 bound notebook.


Reference according to Chisholm's alpha-numerical system: K2

Dates: [1910's]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Notes and text apparently for lectures on European trade, 1923

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Identifier: Coll-68/68
Scope and Contents

Notes and text apparently for lectures on European trade; 1 related press cutting tipped in (dated 1923); ms, 1 bound notebook.


Reference according to Chisholm's alpha-numerical system: 12

Dates: 1923
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Notes and text for lectures on European trade, 1918-1922

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Identifier: Coll-68/67
Scope and Contents

Notes and text for lectures on European trade; many related press cuttings tipped in (dated 1918-22); ms, 1 bound notebook.


Reference according to Chisholm's alpha-numerical system: 11

Dates: 1918-1922
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Notes and text for lectures on ‘Openings for British trade’ Part II: Lectures I (Canada) - X (New Zealand), with several press cuttings tipped in, undated

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Identifier: Coll-68/60
Scope and Contents

Notes and text for lectures on ‘Openings for British trade’ Part II: Lectures I (Canada) - X (New Zealand), with several press cuttings tipped in; ms, 1 bound notebook.


Reference according to Chisholm's alpha-numerical system: i1

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Notes and text for lectures on ‘Openings for British trade’ Part III: Lectures I - III), with several press cuttings tipped in, [c 1901]

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Identifier: Coll-68/61
Scope and Contents

Notes and text for lectures on ‘Openings for British trade’ Part III: Lectures I - III), with several press cuttings tipped in [c1901]; ms, 1 bound notebook.


Reference according to Chisholm's alpha-numerical system: i2 85

Dates: [c 1901]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Notes and text for lectures on ‘U.K trade since 1850, 1917-1923

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Identifier: Coll-68/66
Scope and Contents

Notes and text for lectures on ‘U.K trade since 1850’; many press cuttings tipped in (dated 1917-23); ms, 1 bound notebook.


Reference according to Chisholm's alpha-numerical system: 1

Dates: 1917-1923
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Notes by W.J. Watson, c.1936

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW25
Scope and Contents

2 notebooks containing notes by W.J. Watson. Includes lists of lectures and papers by W.J. Watson, inventory of papers kept in the study of W.J. Watson, Celtic Class lists, 1935-1937, and notes on the life of W.J. Watson. Also poetry exchanged between a minister and his lover, from John Matheson, Portree who recieved it from Donald Matheson alias Domhnall a' Chórnain (?Chórnair). The introduction is in Donald's own words.

Dates: c.1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection