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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:

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

 File
Identifier: MS.3538
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', undated, by John Gregory., [?1772, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3538-3541
Scope and Contents

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.]

Literary and cultural papers of the family of Mure of Caldwell., 1740-1864.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.4990-5005
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.

Dates: 1740-1864.

Manuscript containing lecture notes on chemistry made by Joachim Hisbergh in Paris from Jean Beguin, the author of ‘Tyrocinium chymicum’, otherwise ‘Tyrocinij chymici’.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.10
Scope and Contents

The title page of the manuscript reads ‘Joachim Hisbergh Germani tyrocinium Chymicum, Parisiis abeo dictatum dum ibi pariter Chymiam profiteretur Jo. Beguisius alterius Tyrocinii Chymici Autho’.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.195) includes the reference: a.7.38).

Dates: 17th century.

Medical notebook of Alexander Ochterlony, a younger son of James Ochterlony of Wester Seaton who studied medicine at the University of Paris.

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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 algebra lecture notes, 1723; and, documents, 1745, concerning the defence and surrender of Edinburgh in the Jacobite rising of 1745.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.804
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: 'Dictats of Mr. [George] Cambe[l] concerning Algebra. Written by James Primeros[e]. Novʳ. 12, 1723’, being a pupil's notes of his master's teaching (MS.2821);"Mr. McLourin’s Journall of what passed relating to the defence of Edinburgh from Monday Septemr. 2d. till Monday Septemr. 16th 1745", journal of Professor Colin Maclaurin (MS.299, folios 1-13);Document, [?1745], concerning the ‘45 deal with the surrender of Edinburgh to Prince...
Dates: 1723, 1745.

Microfilm of correspondence, 1726-1800, lecture notes, 1787, and an early manuscript draft, [?1767], of ‘Case for the respondents', which concerns the Douglas Cause.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.763
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Correspondence, 1726-1800, of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee (MS.3431, folios 225-226);

Early manuscript draft, [?1767], of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail, written by Professor Hugh Blair (MS.5356, folios 59-122);

Notes, 1787, of a series of lectures on rhetoric (MS.9974).

Dates: 1726-1800.

Microfilm of notes of lectures on civil law and government, given by John Millar, who was Professor at Glasgow from 1761 to 1801.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.544
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Notes, ?late 18th century, in an unknown hand, of lectures on civil law given by John Millar (MS.2743 (entire));

Student's notes of lectures, 1780-1781, on government given by Professor John Millar. (MS.3931 (part)).

Dates: ?Late 18th century.

Microfilm of unfinished and untitled novel, [1805-1858]; and, lecture notes, 1811-1832, of George Combe.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1393
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Unfinished and untitled novel, [1805-1858], by George Combe, dealing with the childhood and early manhood of a boy who was anxious to go to sea (MS.7438);

Lecture notes, 1811-1832, of George Combe (MS.7439, folios 57-85).

Dates: [1805-1858.]

Miscellaneous articles and lecture notes of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., [Circa 1895]-1947, undated.

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Identifier: MS.9321
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript lecture notes, undated, on the subject of 'Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists, Beaumont and Fletcher' (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript notes for a lecture entitled 'Pope and Tennyson', delivered to the Aberdeen Clerical Society, circa 1895; dated by Sir Herbert Grierson in 1944 (folio 13);(iii) Manuscript notes, undated, on Charles Dickens; possibly material gathered for a lecture or article (folio 76);(iv)...
Dates: [Circa 1895]-1947, undated.

Miscellaneous lecture notes and articles, chiefly by Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson, the majority of which are apparently unpublished., 1933-[1952], undated.

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Identifier: MS.9320
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Typescript, undated, of a lecture or article, with autograph corrections, entitled 'Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey, critics and essayists' (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript, 1933, of a lecture or article entitled 'Abraham Lincoln', apparently written on Herbert Grierson's return from America in that year (folio 26);(iii) Manuscript notes, undated, headed 'Lincoln', but apparently concerning Andrew Carnegie and American industry,...
Dates: 1933-[1952], undated.

Miscellaneous letters and papers., ?1801-1908, undated.

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Identifier: MS.17948
Scope and Contents

The contents include: letters to Thomas Mackay, social reformer, 1893-1908, undated (folios 16-33; see also MS.17908, folios 125-129); a petition for John Mackenzie, minister of Lochcarron, ?l801 (folio 36); lecture notes on the practice of medicine, l840, probably taken by John M Grant, second son of James, minister of Nairn (folio 68), and a note by John Laurie on salmon caught on a stretch of the Tweed, 1842 (folio 130).

Dates: ?1801-1908, undated.

Miscellaneous notebooks and printed matter of and relating to the Willison family., 1807-1994.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11049/69-76
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.

Dates: 1807-1994.

Miscellaneous notes by people other than Patrick Geddes, chiefly on botany., 1890-1894.

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Identifier: MS.10630
Scope and Contents

The manuscript includes lecture notes in T R Marr's hand from the Summer Meeting at Edinburgh University in August, 1892, dealing with physiological experiments (folio 11), and lecture notes on plant physiology by A J Herbertson, 1892 (folio 67).

Dates: 1890-1894.

Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1660-1792, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25439-25453A
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates: 1660-1792, undated.