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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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)...

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,...

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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).

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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.

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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).

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...

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The papers include a programme for the 'Masque of learning' at Crosby Hall, London, 1913 (folio 1), lecture notes for nature study (folio 4), press cuttings, ‘Report to the City and University Collaboration Committee’, Bombay (folio 20), reprints from the ‘Sociological Review’, 1930 (folio 28), and notes on the Indian and Scots Colleges, Montpellier (folio 48).

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MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.

The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.

The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The lectures cover humanities, ancient history, Greek, logic, moral philosophy, natural history, mathematics, divinity and law.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The lectures cover humanities, ancient history, Greek, logic, moral philosophy, natural history, mathematics, divinity and law.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The lectures cover humanities, ancient history, Greek, logic, moral philosophy, natural history, mathematics, divinity and law.

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Leaves are torn out before folios 1 and 59, and after folios 3 inverted, 5 inverted (themselves cut vertically in half), 17 inverted, 36 inverted and 73 inverted.

Folio 55 inverted is a scrap of paper tipped to the outer edge of folio 54 inverted.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...