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Found in 114 Collections and/or Records:

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

Notes of botany lectures given by Daniel Rutherford, taken down by person unknown

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1929
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Red notebook containing notes taken at Dr Rutherford's botanical lectures in May 1790.

Dates: May 1790

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

Notes of lecture entitled "A Few Observations upon Materia Medica" given by Professor Charles Alston, taken down by Henry Blegborough

 Fonds — Volume Dk.5.12
Identifier: Coll-2192
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Notes of lecture on "A Few Observations upon Materia Medica" given by Professor Charles Alston, taken down by Henry Blegborough, 1754.

Dates: 1754

Notes of lectures by Charles Alston, with bookplates of Alexander Russell

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1910
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Three volumes of notes of lectures given by Charles Alston, entitled 'A treatise on the materia medica ... from the lectures of Charles Alston, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians and Professor of Botany at Edinburgh. 1733'. 183 x 165 mm, rebound. They bear the armorial bookplate of Alexander Russell, M.D. It is possible that this is the Alexander Russell that studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and graduated in 1779.

Dates: 1733

Notes of lectures by George Lees, taken down by Thomas Millar

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Identifier: Coll-1912
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One volume of notes taken down by Thomas Millar, who lived at 9 Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, on lectures on natural philosophy given by George Lees. There is note reading: 'George Lees appears in the Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1840/1, as Lecturer in Natural Philosopgy at the School of Arts, Adam Square'. This schhol was the Edinburgh School of Arts, later known as the Watt Institution and School of Arts, which had moved to Adam Square in 1837.

Dates: 1840

Notes of lectures by Sir John Halliday Croom, taken down by P. J. F. Garvey

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Identifier: Coll-1898
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Notes of lectures on midwifery given by John Holliday Croom in 1899 and 1905-1906, taken down by P. J. F. Garvey.

Dates: 1899-1906

Notes of lectures by Sir William Hamilton, taken down by D. Maclaren

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1897
Scope and Contents

Notes of lectures on Logic given by Sir William Hamilton, 1847-1848, taken down by D. Maclaren.

Dates: 1847-1848

Notes of Lectures given by Robert Jameson

 Fonds — Volume Dk.5.23
Identifier: Coll-2199
Scope and Contents

Lectures on Natural History by Professor Robert Jameson, Edinburgh University. 1835-36. Only includes lectures on Meteorology and Hydrology.

Dates: 1835-1836

Notes of lectures given by Sir Alexander Russell Simpson and Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, taken down by Kenneth R. Brown

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1949
Scope and Contents Notebooks containing lecture notes taken down by Kenneth R. Brown in 1885-1887, bearing his bookplate. Notes on lectures given by Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart. 'Lectures on the Practice of Physic'. Edinburgh University, 1885-1886, 2 vols. Notes on lectures given by Sir Alexander Russell Simpson. Lectures on midwifery, and lectures on gynaecology. Edinburgh University, 1886-1887. ...
Dates: 1885-1887