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Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15369-15378
Scope and Contents

William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.

Dates: 1778-1961, undated.

Medical notebook of Alexander Ochterlony, a younger son of James Ochterlony of Wester Seaton who studied medicine at the University of Paris.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.15
Scope and Contents The contents of the notebook are as follows:(i) `Spagyricae seu Jatrochymicae Synopsios Cursus ... illustratus a doctissimo viro domino Rheo`, July 1631. Notes of lectures on chemistry given by Rhee [?Rae], a Scot teaching in Paris. (Folio 1.)(ii) `De primis Naturae principiis`. (Folio 39.)(iii) Extracts from ‘De gradibus et compositionibus receptorum et naturalium’ by Paracelsus. (Folio 45.)(iv) Prescriptions in Latin. (Folio 51.)...
Dates: 1631-1635.