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Lecture notes, 1725, of James A Maxwell, taken at the Catholic College at Douai; with a manuscript genealogy, 19th century, of the Maxwell family.
Lecture notes, 1932, on poultry keeping compiled at the East of Scotland School of Agriculture.
With pharmacist`s notes and recipes, circa 1840, from Germany, containing notes on the Daguerreotype process.
Lecture notes and photographs on the life of Mary Scott, missionary.
Lecture notes and reminiscences by Mrs Martha Steedman, 2012, on Miss Mary Scott, missionary of Kalimpong and Sikkim. Page 4 of the notes was not received from the donor. The notes are accompanied by early 21st century photographs of the school with which Miss Scott was so heavily involved in establishing at Gangtok and its surrounding area.
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 in the form of Latin disputations on natural philosophy.
Lecture notes of William Campbell, from lectures by William Leechman on the truth of the Christian religion.
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 notes probably taken at Aberdeen by Francis Fordyce.
Concerning philosophy and astronomy.
Lecture notes taken by Thomas Dickson from lectures by Andrew Sinclair, Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh, on the section dealing with physiology in Herman Boerhaave`s `Institutions medicae`.
The dates 1743 and 1745 appear on the front flyleaves. Dickson graduated at Leyden in 1746.
'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 notes of James Kelly on Natural Philosophy and Astronomy.
Notes made while Kelly was a student at King's College, Aberdeen.
'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).
Letters and papers of, to or concerning the Reverend William Stevenson.
Literary and academic papers of Dr Angus Calder.
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).
Manuscript notes on lectures by Dr Birkbeck and Mr Wallis at London Mechanics Institution.
Medical notebook of Alexander Ochterlony, a younger son of James Ochterlony of Wester Seaton who studied medicine at the University of Paris.
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).