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Lecture notes.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes made with reference to a lecture, both those from which the lecturer speaks, and those taken by people in attendance.

Found in 314 Collections and/or Records:

Articles, notes, and fragments in Thomas Carlyle’s autograph., 1767, 1832-[?1871], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.1798
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Article on "A narrative of a nine months’ residence in New Zealand" (London, 1832) by Augustus Earle (folio 1);(ii) ‘Gropings about Montrose’, 1839 (folio 4);(iii) Remarks on publication of Bulwer Lytton’s Works 1854, and likeness of constitutional government to sawing a plank on which you are sitting, 1855 (folio 5);(iv) Remarks on liberty, [?1865] (folio 7);(v) Corrected proof of his inaugural...
Dates: 1767, 1832-[?1871], undated.

Case histories and lecture notes chiefly by Henry Robert Oswald., 1797-1812, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9001
Scope and Contents The case histories extend over the period 1797-1812. Many cannot be dated exactly and it is unlikely that those dated 1797 and 1802 are the work of Oswald but they may have belonged to one of the partners in the firm of Bell, Wardrop, Russell, and Co., apothecaries and surgeons in Edinburgh, to whom Oswald was apprenticed, 1807-1810. These are followed (folio 100) by medical and diagnostic notes, including recorded observations of a disease prevalent amongst the children of the poor in the...
Dates: 1797-1812, undated.

Correspondence and papers of George Buchanan Smith., 1901-1917.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9446/182-192
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The George Adam Smith Archive, comprising correspondence and papers, 1859-1949, of the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942), theologian, Moderator of the United Free Church General Assembly, 1916, and Principal of Aberdeen University, 1910-35; of his wife Lilian, née Buchanan (1866-1949) and her family; and of their family, particularly George Buchanan Smith (d.1915) and Robert Dunlop Smith (d.1917).

Dates: 1901-1917.

Correspondence and papers relating to the academic career of John Mackintosh, including school and undergraduate papers., 1944-1978.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13476/15-43
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: John Pitcairn Mackintosh (1929-1978) was a political scientist, professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and a Labour MP for Berwick and East Lothian (1966-1974, 1974-1978). He was pro-Europeist and pro-devolutionist and campaigned in favour of a yes vote during the 1979 Referendum on a Scottish Aseembly.The material consists of the personal and academic papers detailing Mackintosh’s political and academic career. The papers document his many academic ventures including his...
Dates: 1944-1978.

'Disputationes in octo libros physicorum' a volume of lecture notes taken from lectures on mathematics, physics, and astronomy, given by George Sinclair, Professor of Mathematics at Glasgow University., 1660-1661.

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Identifier: MS.9382
Scope and Contents

The name most often recorded in the book is that of Alexander Hamilton, possibly of Dalzell. The names of John Shaw and James Hamilton also appear. In addition to the main lectures on Aristotle's ‘Physics’, there is also part of a tract on anatomy (folios 119-125), and a short poem, 'The abstract of melancholie' (folio 105). This volume is discussed by Hugh Kearney in ‘Scholars and gentlemen, universities and society in pre-industrial Britain, 1500-1700' (London, 1970) pages 136-137.

Dates: 1660-1661.

Earlier papers of George Lawson, mostly relating to his work with the National Council of Labour Colleges., 1920-1950.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9588/1-6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Correspondence and papers of George McArthur Lawson (1906-78). From 1937 to 1940 he was a full-time National Council of Labour Colleges tutor in the East of Scotland, and served as the West of Scotland National Council of Labour Colleges Organiser from 1940-50 when he was appointed Secretary of Edinburgh and District Trades Council. In 1954 he was elected as Labour MP for Motherwell, and represented Motherwell, and Motherwell and Wishaw, until his retirement in Oct 1974. George Lawson served...
Dates: 1920-1950.

Education and professional training, ca.1933-1952 and undated

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14003/32-
Scope and Contents

Notebooks and notes, largely unsorted, dating from Farquhar Macintosh's school and university and teacher training years. Subjects covered are mainly history and education.

Dates: ca.1933-1952 and undated

'Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, delivered by Joseph Black, Professor of Chymistry at Edinburgh, in two volumes'., 1767.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3533-3534
Scope and Contents

The arrangement is broadly that of the lectures as printed from Joseph Black's own manuscripts in 1803; but the notes cover rather less ground.

Dates: 1767.

Exam papers, student essays and lecture notes on teaching and education, 1950-1951 and undated

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Identifier: Acc.14003/68
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Notebooks and notes, largely unsorted, dating from Farquhar Macintosh's school and university and teacher training years. Subjects covered are mainly history and education.

Dates: 1950-1951 and undated

'Exercitationes ethicae', a volume of lecture notes on ethics taken by James Hamilton from lectures delivered at Glasgow University by John Tran., 1687.

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Identifier: MS.9386
Scope and Contents

The name William Hamilton, brother of James, also occurs. The lectures are dated day by day. There are two class lists (folios 3, 88), and a list of the dates of birth of members of the Hamilton family (folio 6), which indicates that the writer of the notes was probably James Hamilton of Dalzell.

Dates: 1687.

'Exercitationes logicae', a volume of lecture notes on logic taken by William Blair at Glasgow University, from the lectures of his regent, John Tran; with original cover., 1686.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.9384
Scope and Contents

Ownership of the notebook passed in 1687 to James Hamilton, and the names William and Alexander Hamilton also occur. The entries are regularly dated.

Dates: 1686.