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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:

Lecture notes taken by Thomas Dickson from lectures by Andrew Sinclair, Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh, on the section dealing with physiology in Herman Boerhaave`s `Institutions medicae`.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.9
Scope and Contents

The dates 1743 and 1745 appear on the front flyleaves. Dickson graduated at Leyden in 1746.

Dates: 1743-1745.

Lecture notes, undated, entitled, "Cullen's Practice", apparently only the first part of a much more extensive course., [?1771-?1772.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3536-3537
Scope and Contents

In subject-matter the lecture notes are similar to Dr Cullen's ‘First lines of the practice of physic’, but their range is more limited; they also seem to incorporate some of the material contained in Cullen's ‘Nosology’.

Dates: [?1771-?1772.]

Lecture notes, undated, on social geography in Marcel Hardy's hand., Early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.10628
Scope and Contents

The manuscript includes two lectures entitled 'Famine as related to a growing population' (folio 54), and 'Tropical colonies and dependencies of Europe' (folio 103).

Dates: Early 20th century.

'Lecture on ragged schools' by Thomas Guthrie.

 File
Identifier: MS.14236
Scope and Contents

The lecture is preceded (folio 1) by notes of its contents in another hand.

Dates: Mid 19th century.

Lecture papers and notes of Angus Calder for literature courses taught at the University of Nairobi, Kenya., 1969-1971, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11794/1-10
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

A collection of lecture notes for literature courses at the University of Nairobi, 1969-1971, and manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and correspondence relating to the published works 'Revolutionary Empire' (London: Cape, 1981) and 'Waking in Waikato' (Edinburgh: Diehard, 1997).

Dates: 1969-1971, undated.

Lectures for various saints' days, given by Bishop George Wishart as chaplain to Montrose at Newcastle during the siege, 1644.

 File
Identifier: MS.3545
Scope and Contents

The sermons, some of which are unfinished, are in two seventeenth-century hands.

There are notes on the manuscript inside the front cover and on folio i by the Reverend W D Macray of the Bodleian Library, who gives reasons for identifying the author.

Dates: 1644.

Lectures, lecture notes and journals of James Wright and Walter Macleod, ministers of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: MSS.14228-14231
Scope and Contents

For James Wright's career, see David Scott, ‘Annals and statistics of the Original Secession Church’ (Edinburgh, 1886), pages 562-563.

Walter Macleod succeeded Wright in the charge of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh on the latter's death in 1879.

Dates: 1850-1901.

Lectures notes of James Kelly on Natural Philosophy and Astronomy.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14047
Content Description

Notes made while Kelly was a student at King's College, Aberdeen.

Dates: 1780.

Lectures on philosophy, possibly taken down at Marischal College, Aberdeen by John Mair, a student at the college, 1718-1722, and later minister of Forbes and Rayne.

 File
Identifier: MS.9859
Scope and Contents

The signature 'John Mair, 1725' occurs on one of the front leaves, and the covers are gilt-stamped 'I.M. 1725'.

The lectures may have been delivered by Mair’s regent, Patrick Hardie.

There are three treatises in the volume: 'Metaphysicæ Synopsis' (page 1); 'Pneumatologie Mantissa' (page 53); 'Introductio ad Ethicam' (page 81).

Dates: [?1718-?1722.]

'Lectures on the Institutions of Medicine, by Dr. Cullen, 1771-72’., 1771-1772.

 File
Identifier: MS.3535
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1771-1772.

'Lectures on the Practice of Physic' by John Gregory., [?1772, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.3539
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

In substance the first two volumes resemble John Gregory's ‘Elements of the practice of physic’; the second two cover additional ground.

Dates: [?1772, or before.]

'Lectures on the Practice of Physic' by John Gregory., [?1772, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.3540
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

In substance the first two volumes resemble John Gregory's ‘Elements of the practice of physic’; the second two cover additional ground.

Dates: [?1772, or before.]

'Lectures on the Practice of Physic' by John Gregory., [?1772, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.3542
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

In substance the first two volumes resemble John Gregory's ‘Elements of the practice of physic’; the second two cover additional ground.

Dates: [?1772, or before.]