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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 467 Collections and/or Records:

Notes of lectures on actions, possibly by Allan Maconochie, Professor of public law at Edinburgh.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.4(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents

The first page of the manuscript is dated 10th October 1783.

Dates: 1783.

Notes of lectures on actions, possibly by Allan Maconochie, Professor of public law at Edinburgh., 1783.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.4(i)
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains the following: (i) Summonses (folio 1); (ii) Actions of proving the tenor of writs (folio 5); (iii) Privileged summonses (folio 14); (iv) Poinding (folio 27); (v) Adjudications (folio 37); (vi) Judicial sales (folio 49); (vii) Arrestment (folio 60); (viii) Form of process before Parliament (folio 83); (ix) Form of process before the Court of Session (folio 101); (x) Form of procedure in declarators (folio 123); (xi) Reductions and improbations (folio 136); (xii)...
Dates: 1783.

Notes of lectures on actions, possibly by Allan Maconochie, Professor of public law at Edinburgh., 1783.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.4(ii)
Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains the following:

(i) Inhibition (folio 1); (ii) Decision among heirs portioners and division of Runrigg land and commonties (folio 16) (iii) Court of commission for the plantation of churches and valuation of tythes (folio 33); (iv) Interdictions (folio 52); (v) Jurisdictiory of the Judge Admiralty and forms of process in causes that are brought before that court (folio 63); (vi) Seals and writs, passing them (folio 77).

Dates: 1783.

Notes of lectures on natural history delivered by Robert Jameson, Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: MS.3936
Scope and Contents

Notes on ornithology (folio 102) may be by 'W.McC.' (see list of contents, folio 5).

Dates: 1831-1832.

Notes of lectures on place-names by Professor Donald Mackinnon, University of Edinburgh., 1891-1892.

 File
Identifier: MS.404
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: 1891-1892.

Notes of lectures on Sir George Mackenzie’s ‘Institutions’, delivered by Alexander Bayne, Professor of the Scots law at Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.18
Scope and Contents

The lecture notes were ‘collected by Mr John Fraser, student of civil and Scots laws. Written at Edinburgh by Thomas Ross, Anno 1727’.

Dates: 1727.

Notes of the lectures of Sir James Young Simpson, titled, "Midwifery by Dr. Simpson, Edinburgh, Nov. '52", taken, partly in shorthand, by Frederick Cock.

 File
Identifier: MS.3542
Scope and Contents

Pages 120-134 deal with Chloroform, its history, discovery, effects, and the rules for its use. On pages 240-241 there are drawings of apparatus for the use of chloroform.

Dates: 1852.

Notes of the lectures on Scots law delivered by David Hume, Professor of Scots law at Edinburgh.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.6.10(i)-(iv)
Scope and Contents

Apparently intended by the annotator as transcripts for publication.

Dates: 1822.