Edinburgh -- Scotland
Found in 263 Collections and/or Records:
Interviews with former staff of the Institute of Animal Genetics, 1969-1971
Contains interviews with: Charlotte Auerbach, Alick Buchanan Smith, Lord Balerno, F.A.E. Crew, Frank Fraser Darling, Hugh Paterson Donald, Honor Fell and Alan William Greenwood. The interviewer in all cases is Margaret Deacon.
Introductions, c1779-c1801
Volume consists of drafts of numerous introductions for various kinds of lectures in 'natural philosophy', the first dated October 26, 1779, and possibly bearing the name of David Hume.
Introductions, c1804
Volume consists of drafts of numerous introductions for various kinds of lectures in 'natural philosophy'. They discuss the use of terms like 'causation' and 'laws', concerned less with scientific facts than with how to study science itself.
James Johnson: notes from lectures on chemistry by Joseph Black
The lectures on chemistry by Joseph Black consist of:
- 1 volume of lecture notes (1770-1775)
Lecture Notes of John Robison
Lecture notes from the time when Robison was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. The notes embrace the sciences of mechanics, hydrodynamics, astronomy and optics, together with electricity and magnetism.
It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.
Letter from Charles H Stewart, Secretary to the University of Edinburgh, to Thomson regarding the acceptance of an Endowment from the Thomson Research Fund for a lectureship in Educational Research, 24 Mar 1949
Includes letters to and about Thomson regarding his life, work, and career from a variety of correspondents including Karl Pearson, Egon Pearson, Edward Lee Thorndike, Sir James Duff, Carlos Paton Blacker, David Glass, and Derrick Lawley.
Letter from one of Thomson's former students, Margaret Ward Dyer (née Hinman), 20 Feb 1955
Dyer states how much Thomson meant to her, how he influenced her, and how much she enjoyed being in his B. Ed class.
Letter from Prof John MacMurray, 10 Feb 1955
Letter from Professor David J Finney to Thomson regarding the use of maximum likelihood, 13 May 1952
Thomson has inscribed the letter The paper was A Dueit Deduction of the constant process used in the method of right and wrong cases, The Psychological Review, Vol 26, No 6, Nov 1919, pp 454-464.
Letter from Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker to Thomson praising the new edition of the Factorial Analysis of Human Ability and discussing the possibility of Thomson's election to the Royal Society, 12 Dec 1946
Whittaker also acknowledges the contribution made by Thomson's colleagues: Aitken, Black, Emmett, Lawley, Ledermann, and Mackie.
Marked Biography by Hector Thomson.