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Lectures and Lecturing

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 407 Collections and/or Records:

Notice for a meeting of the Edinburgh Hunterian Medical Society, 3 November 1841

 Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0035
Scope and Contents A rare notice announcing the resuming of meetings of the Edinburgh Hunterian Medical Society. It advertises the lectures of Dr. Lonsdale, Dr. Bates (on epilepsy) and Dr. Mackay (on dystentery) at a meeting of the 1841 Edinburgh Hunterian Medical Society, held at Societies' Hall at Edinburgh University on the 3rd of November 1841.The handbill reads as follows: "This society will resume its meetings on Wednesday by the 10th November 1841. After an address from the President, an...
Dates: 3 November 1841
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

'Nutrition', lecture in Almroth-Wright Lecture series, St Mary's Hospital, London, c. 1949

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/F/1/F.2
Scope and Content

Notes for a lecture by Martin Rivers Pollock, Nutrition', in Almroth-Wright Lecture series, St Mary's Hospital, London, 24 May 1949. The material consists of correspondence; a list of the lectures in the series; and manuscript notes.

Dates: c. 1949
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION F: LECTURES AND BROADCASTS / LECTURES

Nutrition (typescript); 'Physiological adaptation in micro-organism'; 'The problem of enzyme secretion in bacteria'; 'Role of enzyme induction in development of drug resistance by microorganisms'; and 'Some views and primitive attempts to determine the mechanism of [?exotic] enzyme liberation from bacteria', no date

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/F/1/F.105
Scope and Contents

The material consists of notes for 5 undated lectures by Martin Rivers Pollock: Nutrition (typescript); 'Physiological adaptation in micro-organism'; 'The problem of enzyme secretion in bacteria'; 'Role of enzyme induction in development of drug resistance by microorganisms'; and 'Some views and primitive attempts to determine the mechanism of [?exotic] enzyme liberation from bacteria'.

Dates: no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION F: LECTURES AND BROADCASTS / LECTURES / Undated lectures

'Origins and development of molecular biology', University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 21 February 1974, 1974

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/F/1/F.88
Scope and Content

The material consists of manuscript notes for lecture 'Origins and development of molecular biology' by Martin Rivers Pollock, gien at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 21 February 1974.

Dates: 1974
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION F: LECTURES AND BROADCASTS / LECTURES

Page mounted with seven photographs of Alan Greenwood at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 1961, February 1961

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1057/6/2/94
Scope and Contents

Recto: three photographs of Alan Greenwood giving a lecture; one photograph of Alan Greenwood and three unidentified individuals in a street.

Verso: two close-up photographs of Alan Greenwood seated at a desk; photograph of Alan Greenwood seated at the head of table at a dinner party. The back of the photograph is captioned 'Kosher dinner with the Goldbliths - obviously not too pleased with American wine.'

Dates: February 1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Alan W. Greenwood / Photographs / Photographs from the Poultry Research Centre

Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-11
Scope and Contents The papers cover the years 1876 to 1910 and contains a great many autograph letters from eminent anatomists and medical men, including ten letters from Joseph Lister. There is also a substantial sequence of notebooks and working papers containing detailed notes of experiments and dissections together with drawings and drafts for lectures, and a separate sequence of manuscripts for lectures and addresses. An item of particular interest is an album of 96 photographs from Cunningham's service...
Dates: c 1876-1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers concerning Angus Matheson, 1938

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW401
Scope and Contents Series of papers concerning Angus Matheson of 66 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh. Papers include correspondence dated 31 August 1938, giving an account of Angus Matheson's canvassing for the position of Lecturer in Celtic at Glasgow University. Also one item of correspondence addressed to Dr MacLeod, dated 14 Feb 1938, which comments on George Calder's editing of the Poems of William Ross (Edinburgh, 1937) . Also a letter of application and testimonials in favour of...
Dates: 1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Papers of Allan Maconochie (Lord Meadowbank) - Legal material

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1137
Scope and Contents This is a collection of autograph manuscripts of Allan Maconochie (Lord Meadowbank). The manuscripts (1780s) consist largely of lectures and notes and many of the notes are incomplete or unfinished as it was the practice of Maconochie to finish in mid-sentence. The collection is composed of lecture/meeting notes on economics, law, government and society etc., and include those on: - the importance of...
Dates: 1780-1789
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Andrew Nisbet Bogle

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1004
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of the following:in Box 1/9: box containing Moderator's laces offprints, being copies of: the Churches Conference, held at the Library Hall, New College, Edinburgh, and its 'Draft of Unity Act' 10 February 1927; Committee to Confer with the United Free Church of Scotland; Scottish Church Society and its 'Notes on the Basis and Plan of Union'; and, Principal...
Dates: 1892-1980
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections