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University of Edinburgh -- Student lecture notes

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 114 Collections and/or Records:

Maclagan (Sir Douglas). Notes of Lectures on Poisons, 1883

 Item — Volume Dk.3.26
Identifier: Coll-2255/9
Scope and Contents

Creator: Taylor, William, fl. 1883 (student); Maclagan, Sir Andrew Douglas, 1812-1900 (Scottish surgeon, toxicologist)

Maclagan (Sir Douglas). Notes of Lectures on Poisons taken by W. Taylor in Edinburgh University in 1883. 1 volume.

Dates: 1883

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

Manuscript volumes of lectures entitled "Prelectiones theologicae" by William and Robert Hamilton

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2906
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of five volumes of notes in Latin from the lectures of William Hamilton, Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh in 1709-1732, and of his son, Robert Hamilton, Professor of Divinity at the same University in 1754-1779. Vols. I, III, IV, and V are from the lectures of Robert Hamilton, and Vol. II from the lectures of William Hamilton.

Dates: 1709-1779

Material relating to William Thompson Hall

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1559, Folder: SC-Acc-2016-0129
Identifier: Coll-1773
Content Description

Material relating to William Thompson Hall being notebooks and jotting pad. The latter is a small notebook with notes on 'Reasoning'. Two larger notebooks contain notes on Arts topics and Chemistry.

Dates: 1864-1865

Medical lecture notes of T. L. Kennish

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1908
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh University medical lecture notes taken down by T. L. Kennish, c 1880s.

Dates: 1880s

Medical Lecture notes taken down by William Paterson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2271
Scope and Contents Seven volumes of lecture notes delivered in the medical faculty of Edinburgh University, appear to be in two hands, some may have been taken down by William Paterson. 1897-1900. 8^o. Midwifery, by Professor Sir J.H. Croom, 1899. Physiology, by Professor W. Rutherford. 1899, 2 vols. Practice of medicine, by Professor J. Wyllie, 1899-1900, 2 vols. Surgery,...
Dates: 1897-1900

Notebook entitled "Observations on Logic by Several Professors" containing notes on lectures on logic given at the Universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh, taken down by John Campbell

 Fonds — Volume Dk.3.2
Identifier: Coll-2164
Scope and Contents Note on lectures of logic taken down by John Campbell, entitled "Observations on Logic by Several Professors". Glasgow, 1775. "A System of Logic Taught at Aberdeen" by Dr Thomas Reid, 1763, now professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow, pp. 1-101. "A System of Logic Taught at St Andrews" by Mr. Robert Watson, 1764-1765, pp. 102-200. "Observations on Logic" by Mr James...
Dates: 1775

Notebooks of lectures at the University of Edinburgh, taken down by Robert Low Orr and William J. Orr

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1919
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of 20 notebooks containing notes on legal and medical lectures given at the University of Edinburgh, taken down by Robert Low Orr and William J. Orr. Also includes some class cards, exam papers, and ephemera of Robert Low Orr. Robert Low Orr: Lectures on Metaphysics (Fraser) Robert Low Orr: Law lectures (Muirhead, Macpherson) Robert Low Orr: Scots law...
Dates: 1873-1886