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Books of undergraduate notes, and drafts of essays on logic and metaphysics, with notes, of Sir James Matthew Barrie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6648-6651
Dates:
1878-1881.
Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.15560-15901
Scope and Contents
John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates:
Mid 14th century-[before 1962], undated.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20534-20654
Dates:
1907-1964, undated.
Lecture notebooks, written at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9381-9386
Dates:
1626-1687.
Lecture notebooks, written at Marischal College, Aberdeen.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9387-9388
Dates:
1690-1695.
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.
Microfilm of notebook of Sir James Matthew Barrie, containing notes on David Masson's lectures on rhetoric, 31 October-29 November 1881, written throughout in longhand.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.965
Dates:
1881.
Notebook containing lecture notes taken by Allen Thomson when in Paris.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11114
Dates:
1829.
Notebooks of lecture notes and excercise books of Elsie Jean McGuire relating to her studies at Edinburgh College of Domestic Science.
File
Identifier: Acc.12465
Scope and Contents
Includes text books.
Dates:
1938-1939, undated.
Papers of Dr Farquhar Macintosh.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14003
Content Description
Correspondence and other papers of and about Dr Farquhar Macintosh, teacher and educationalist and supporter of Gaelic. He was born in Elgol, Isle of Skye, on 27 October 1923, a native speaker of Gaelic, and died in Edinburgh, 18 November 2007. He went to Edinburgh University and Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow, and became headmaster of Portree High School (1962-1966) and Oban High School (1967-1972), and finally Rector of the Royal High School, Edinburgh (1972 to 1989). He served...
Dates:
1940s-2007
Six notebooks, with lecture notes in longhand and shorthand, taken by Sir James Matthew Barrie when an undergraduate at Edinburgh University.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6652-6657
Dates:
1880-1881.
Students` notebooks containing lecture notes, problems and notes on mathematics.
File
Identifier: Acc.10071
Dates:
1878-circa 1889.