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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 466 Collections and/or Records:

'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.

 File
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

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.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13644
Scope and Contents

40 lectures on Logic given by Charles Nisbet during his tenure as President of Dickinson College, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1793

'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

 File
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.

 File
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.

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.

 File
Identifier: MS.9822
Scope and Contents

The notes include a few caricature drawings and end with scraps of verse. An engraving of R L Stevenson by S Hollyer is prefixed.

Dates: [?1874.]

Further papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14268/1-42
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1887-1952.

Gaelic language class notes, 1935

 File
Identifier: Acc.13483
Scope and Contents Typewritten language class notes, headed: "Notes of instruction by Professor Fraser (of Jesus College, Oxford) to a small class of "beginners" in Gaelic - including Angus McIntosh (later Prof. of Eng. Language, Edin.), Angus Mackintosh (later Sir A.M.) and George Campbell Hay, who was the only Gaelic speaker among us. There may be errors due to my mishearing or misunderstanding. Some pencilled corrections were, I think, made by John Lorne Campbell to whom I later lent this typescript. A.H....
Dates: 1935

George Forbes's Lecture notes., 1865-1906.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13827/222-231
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1865-1906.