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Lectures and Lecturing

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Found in 401 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook, late 19th-early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW399
Scope and Contents

Paper notebook containing notes on Newman's 'Grammar of Assent' and lectures on Theology. The writer is unknown.

Dates: late 19th-early 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Notebook No.107, 2 March 1843 - 22 May 1843

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/107
Scope and Contents Notes, many on American geology, thoughts on theories of Geologists Henry Woodward, W. Morris, and the inventor Charles Babbage, expenses related to future lectures, and plans to go to Cork, Ireland. This index is not in Lyell's own words, but is notes from working with the notebook in the process of cataloguing. A complete index in Lyell's own words will be published in due course. Index...
Dates: 2 March 1843 - 22 May 1843
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

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
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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
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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
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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