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Notes taken by William Carstares Dunlop, of Sir William Hamilton's lectures on logic, delivered at Edinburgh University.
This is the second volume only, covering lectures numbered XXI-XXXIV.
Notes titled, ‘Physica’ by Gerbrand Ignatius Moens of a course of lectures of Friar Morus on physics, possibly at the Jesuit College of La Flêche.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.195) includes the reference: (Rob.III.1.6).
Papers, including lecture notes and parish visitors books, of the Graham family.
Collection of volumes of lecture notes and parish visitors' books of James Thomas Graham, minister of Dean Park, Glasgow, his son William McMaster Graham, minister of Ardersier East, James Stewart Graham, and Agnes Graham.
Papers of Dr Esther Breitenbach.
Papers of Dr Farquhar Macintosh.
Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.
Papers of Handel Kay, municipal engineer.
Papers concern Kay`s professional career and the town of Denholm, Roxburghshire.
Papers of Sir Steven Runciman, including correspondence, diaries, photographs, and lectures.
Papers of the Reverend William James Anderson.
Comprising typescripts of theological lecture notes taken at Fribourg University, and of a translation of A G Sertillanges, "S Thomas d`Aquin".
Papers on climbing of James H B Bell.
Includes:
eight log books, 1925-1972
notes, 1927-1963, for lectures on climbing
notes, undated, on new climbs.
Photocopy of lecture notes on calculus ("A Treatise of Fluxions") taken by David Hume from lectures of George Campbell at Edinburgh.
Poems and lecture notes of the Reverend William H Hamilton, minister of Leslie and Waulkmill.
Scottish medical recipe book, 1688-1689, lecture notes on medicine, late 18th century, and copies of papers, 1821-1827, of Francis Hamilton.
Six notebooks, with lecture notes in longhand and shorthand, taken by Sir James Matthew Barrie when an undergraduate at Edinburgh University.
Small collections of correspondence and papers of and to members of the Haldane family.
Student lecture notes, taken by William Stirling, of an entire course of lectures on physiology delivered by Professor John Hughes Bennett at Edinburgh University, 2 November 1868-31 March, 1869.
The notes were apparently written down during the lectures, but there are a few later additions. William Stirling eventually became Professor of Physiology in the Victoria University, Manchester.
Student notes, in more than one hand, of various medical lectures delivered apparently at the University of Edinburgh.
On page 206 occur the words 'Lectures from Dr. Rutherford'.
From a comparison with his printed works it seems likely that the clinical lectures beginning on page 433 were given by William Cullen.
Student notes of medical lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh.
Although they are not written in the same hand throughout, these volumes seem all to have belonged at one time to Nathaniel Dimsdale, whose name is found in the list of Edinburgh medical graduates under the year 1771.
Student notes of the ‘Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres’ of Hugh Blair.
The lectures contain (folios 51 verso, 59 verso, 76 verso) the criticisms of Dr Johnson omitted from the published ‘Lectures’, and in particular the rendering of a passage of Addison in the style of Johnson (folio 83) quoted in part by Boswell in his ‘Life’ (edited by Birkbeck Hill, 1934, etc., volume iii, page 172).
Student notes titled ‘Dialecticam’ of lectures on logic at Paris.
Students` notebooks containing lecture notes, problems and notes on mathematics.
Student's notes of the lectures given by John Millar, Professor of Law at Glasgow.
`Suppletory Notes To Sir George Mackenzies Institutions by Mr. Alexander Bayne, Advocate Professor of the Scots Law at Edinburgh.` These are apparently a student`s notes of Bayne`s lectures, although neither the name of the writer nor the date of dictation is given.
The notes are almost identical with the text published as ‘Notes for the Use of the Students of the Municipal Law in the University of Edinburgh: Being a Supplement to Sir George Mackenzie`s Institutions’. They are followed, as in several copies of the dictates in Edinburgh University Library, by notes of Bayne`s lectures on Criminal Law; these differ considerably from his ‘Institutions of the Criminal Law of Scotland’; for a much fuller version see Adv.MS.25.3.12.
Volume containing a student's notes on twenty-nine lectures on conveyancing, delivered by Robert Bell, Writer to the Signet and advocate, lecturer in conveyancing to the Society of Writers to the Signet, 1793-1816.
The manuscript can be dated circa 1796-1800 by internal references to contemporary cases, from the watermarks of the paper, and by comparison with Robert Bell's printed lectures.