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Album, containing 'Universal grammar...' written by James Trail, Minister of St Cyrus, and lecture notes on logic by his brother David Trail, Minister of Panbride.
Books of undergraduate notes, and drafts of essays on logic and metaphysics, with notes, of Sir James Matthew Barrie.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
'Cosmographiae Principia, ubi Explicantur, varia Mundi Systemata, & verum stabilitur'.
'Cursus ethicus', a volume of lecture notes taken by William Watt, a student at Marischal College, Aberdeen, later minister of Inverurie.
Ownership of the notebook passed to Robert Hogg in 1702. The lectures were probably delivered by William Watt's regent, Alexander Moir. The volume is initialled 'W.W.' on both covers.
Dictates on logic taken at St Andrews University by David Gregory, Professor of Mathematics, St Andrews University, possibly from the lectures of Henry Ramsay.
The notes were probably passed to David Gregory’s younger brother Donald, a student at St Andrews in 1739.
There is a pencil caricature (folio i).
The volume is initialled DC on both covers.
Dictates on logic taken by Thomas Stark, Minister of Balmerino on lectures of Henry Ramsay, Professor of Philosophy at St Salvator's College, St Andrews University.
The volume is stamped with initials 'TS' on both covers and includes mnemonics for syllogisms (folios 8-9 and possibly also folio 144 verso), ornate alphabets (folio 145), an insulting title page concerning the professor and the inscription of Alexander Cairns (folio i).
Dictates, possibly of George and John Gordon, from the lectures of Mr Thomas Gray, regent in Marischal College, Aberdeen.
The notes, which contain scientific diagrams (folios 34a, 42, 71, 78), appear to be drawn from the system of Pierre Gassendi. The subjects include philosophy (folio 2), Copernican astronomy (folio 54 verso) and fossils (folio 58 verso).
Five pages of pencilled notes made by R L Stevenson during a civil law lecture, when he was reading for the bar in 1873-1875.
The notes include a few caricature drawings and end with scraps of verse. An engraving of R L Stevenson by S Hollyer is prefixed.
'Institutiones Logicae, a Domino Collino Drummond dictitatae, anno 1723. Alexʳ Boswell scripsit'.
Colin Drummond was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh from 1708 to about 1730; Alexander Boswell is apparently the later Lord Auchinleck, who is not generally known to have studied at Edinburgh.
Lecture notebooks, written at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities.
Lecture notebooks, written at Marischal College, Aberdeen.
Lecture notes dictated to Alexander Bruce, later 2nd Earl of Kincardine, by his tutor, David Nevay.
The notes include a theological disputation in Latin, dated 1645, and a shorter discourse on the elements of arithmetic, also chiefly in Latin.
Lecture notes on Aristotle taken by David Readdie, Minister of Ratho, when a student at St Andrews University.
The early lectures, 1629-1631, were delivered by Sir John Wedderburn, physician, while Professor of Philosophy at St Andrews (folio 1), and the later lectures dating from 1631-1633 by John Mackenzie (folio 62).
Lecture notes on ethics taken by James Nairn, son of Sir Thomas Nairn of Dunsinane, 1708-1709, from lectures possibly delivered by John Hay, Minister of Falkland and Regent at St Leonard's College, St Andrews.
In addition to the lectures, there are notes on astrology and on the properties of miscellaneous herbs, spices, and fruits, early 18th century, (inverted folios 1-15).
'Lecture on ragged schools' by Thomas Guthrie.
The lecture is preceded (folio 1) by notes of its contents in another hand.
Lectures for various saints' days, given by Bishop George Wishart as chaplain to Montrose at Newcastle during the siege, 1644.
The sermons, some of which are unfinished, are in two seventeenth-century hands.
There are notes on the manuscript inside the front cover and on folio i by the Reverend W D Macray of the Bodleian Library, who gives reasons for identifying the author.
Lectures, lecture notes and journals of James Wright and Walter Macleod, ministers of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh.
For James Wright's career, see David Scott, ‘Annals and statistics of the Original Secession Church’ (Edinburgh, 1886), pages 562-563.
Walter Macleod succeeded Wright in the charge of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh on the latter's death in 1879.
'Lectures on Agriculture by Dr. Coventry, Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, 1819-20.' Notes, by an unidentified student, of the entire course of ninety lectures on theoretical and practical agriculture and rural economy.
Lectures on philosophy, possibly taken down at Marischal College, Aberdeen by John Mair, a student at the college, 1718-1722, and later minister of Forbes and Rayne.
The signature 'John Mair, 1725' occurs on one of the front leaves, and the covers are gilt-stamped 'I.M. 1725'.
The lectures may have been delivered by Mair’s regent, Patrick Hardie.
There are three treatises in the volume:
'Metaphysicæ Synopsis' (page 1);
'Pneumatologie Mantissa' (page 53);
'Introductio ad Ethicam' (page 81).
Manuscript containing lecture notes on chemistry made by Joachim Hisbergh in Paris from Jean Beguin, the author of ‘Tyrocinium chymicum’, otherwise ‘Tyrocinij chymici’.
The title page of the manuscript reads ‘Joachim Hisbergh Germani tyrocinium Chymicum, Parisiis abeo dictatum dum ibi pariter Chymiam profiteretur Jo. Beguisius alterius Tyrocinii Chymici Autho’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.195) includes the reference: a.7.38).
Microfilm of algebra lecture notes, 1723; and, documents, 1745, concerning the defence and surrender of Edinburgh in the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Microfilm of correspondence, 1726-1800, lecture notes, 1787, and an early manuscript draft, [?1767], of ‘Case for the respondents', which concerns the Douglas Cause.
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1726-1800, of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee (MS.3431, folios 225-226);
Early manuscript draft, [?1767], of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail, written by Professor Hugh Blair (MS.5356, folios 59-122);
Notes, 1787, of a series of lectures on rhetoric (MS.9974).