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Lectures and Lecturing

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

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Identifier: Coll-68/66
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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
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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

Notes for lectures given in Dublin, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-74/9/2
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Notes for 2 lectures given in Dublin. Sir Archibald Geikie looked at the evolution of scenery around the British Isles. He looked particularly at those elements formed by erosion, such as river valleys, using many locations as examples. He also looked at the formation of tablelands and other geological features and how these have impacted on the people and society in the localities.

Dates: late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Lecture notes

Notes for Lectures I-X in the series ‘Openings for British trade, Part I’, with lists of slides shown, [c 1899]

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Identifier: Coll-68/129
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Notes for Lectures I-X in the series ‘Openings for British trade, Part I’, with lists of slides shown; [c1899]; ms, 1 bound notebook.

Dates: [c 1899]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-74/9/1
Scope and Contents Notes for 6 lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', encompasing a wide variety of related subjects. Sir Archibald Geike looked at various geological periods and how both the areas occupied by land and water changed over time. He looked at the creation of many geological formations, at the materials they were composed of and the processes involved, including the infleunce of different elements within the natural world. He used as examples numerous locations, mostly within the British Isles but...
Dates: late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Lecture notes

Notes for lectures on ‘Openings for British trade’: Lect. I - IV (China), Lect. VI (India), Lect. VIII (frontier trade), with several press cuttings tipped in; notes and extracts from various publications, undated

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Identifier: Coll-68/59
Scope and Contents Notes for lectures on ‘Openings for British trade’: Lect. I - IV (China), Lect. VI (India), Lect. VIII (frontier trade), with several press cuttings tipped in; notes and extracts from various publications, including J.H. Oldham, Christianity and the race problem (??), and Willoughby, Race problems in the new Africa (Oxford: 1923); ms, 1 bound notebook.Reference according to Chisholm's alpha-numerical system: i 0...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

Notes from Lectures by Joseph Black

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1852
Scope and Contents Set of three volumes containing lectures given by Joseph Black, beginning 30 Oct 1782. In volume one, the lectures are numbered 1 through to 29, in volume two from 30 to 75, and in volume three from 76 to 118. The volumes are paginated, and bound between pages of the first one is a fold-out drawing, dated 1784, of a thermometer, marked with properties/states of various substances at specific temperatures.The author of the volumes is unknown but was almost certainly one of Black's...
Dates: 1782 - c 1787
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of Dr. Joseph Black's Philosophical Lectures on Chemistry

 Fonds — CLX-A-351: Series Coll-1835/21
Identifier: Coll-1847
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Three volumes of notes on Dr. Joseph Black's lectures on chemistry. The full title is: 'Notes of Dr. Black's Philosophical Lectures on Chemistry, Corrected and enlarged by the joint labor of George Buchan Hepburn and Alexander Law, advocates'. Manuscript, in a neat and legible hand, of notes of Black's course of 57 lectures on chemistry delivered from 13th June to 22nd December 1775.

Dates: 1775
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes of lectures on 'Physiology for Ladies' given by Edward Henry Sieveking at Stamford Hill

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Identifier: Coll-1918
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Notes of lectures on 'Physiology for Ladies' given by Edward Henry Sieveking at Stamford Hill, taken by an unknown person in 1848.

Dates: 1848
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes on Gaelic Grammar and Vocabulary, late 19th-early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW16
Scope and Contents Notebook containing notes on Gaelic Grammar and Vocabulary. It is likely that these are class notes produced by the Rev Charles Robertson from Donald Mackinnon's lectures in the Celtic Department at Edinburgh University. This is possibly not the original notebook but a copy of Robertson's work. The notebook includes, notes on 'The Celt in English Art' taken from an article by Grant Allen in the Fortnightly Review February, 1891, pp267. Also notes on Old...
Dates: late 19th-early 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection