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Accounts, 1719-1786, concerning Culross.
With dictates, 1677, taken down as the University of Edinburgh by James Blaw.
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.
`Annotationes in Aristotelis physicam`: a volume of lecture notes taken by James Barclay from lectures by Robert Barron at St Salvator`s College, St Andrews.
The notes are followed by `Tractatus continens doctrinam Astronomicam` (folio 189), verses on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, in 1612 (folio 199 verso), and `Solutio quorundam problematum ad elementorum explicationem pertinentium` (folio 201).
Books of undergraduate notes, and drafts of essays on logic and metaphysics, with notes, of Sir James Matthew Barrie.
Casebook of a Scottish doctor, with clinical lecture notes.
Compendium of texts or lecture notes on philosophical subjects, probably written in France in the 17th century.
Copies of notes for eight lectures on economics given by John Maclean.
Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
Correspondence and papers of Prof Christopher T Harvie.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Correspondence, reports, research notes and other papers of Dr Foster Neville Woodward, scientist and researcher.
'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.
`Demonstratio plantarum in horto Regio Parisiensi apud St Victor.’ Notes of lectures given in June and July 1670 by Denis Joncquet, physician and teacher of botany at the Jardin Royal.
The notes consist of a list of plants, giving the alternative names and medicinal uses of each.
A note at the end (folio 67) is signed P M, and is followed by a brief extract from a lecture by Joncquet in 1669. Joncquet`s name is consistently mis-spelled Jouquet.
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).
Edwin Aug[ustu]s Atlee`s copy of Lectures on Logic: taken from the Mouth of the Rev[eren]d Charles Nisbet DD Pres[iden]t of Dickinson College, Carlisle.
40 lectures on Logic given by Charles Nisbet during his tenure as President of Dickinson College, Pennsylvania.
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.
Further papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan.
Comprising Lord Macmillan's commonplace books with notes on his scholarly and personal reading; papers on his professional service and appointments, including a collection of press cuttings documenting his career; and fragments of correspondence and literary drafts, with photographs and family ephemera.
Gaelic language class notes, 1935
'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.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.