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Lectures.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Documents containing the text of expositions of a given subject delivered before an audience or class, especially for the purposes of instruction. (AAT) Use for all lecture texts and students' notes. Index also under the subject of the lecture, and under the names of the lecturer and student where known (but not under the university or other place where the lecture was delivered). (NLS) .

Found in 143 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript of a course of lectures on the ‘Digest’ of Justinian.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.8.1-81.8.2
Scope and Contents Folios 1-16, commenting up to Book 2, Title 12, are on different paper and in a different hand; some folios (probably only 2), containing the commentary on Book 2, Title 13, have been lost after folio 16. A substantial number of folios have been lost at the end, as the commentary breaks off in Book 41, Title 2. Dates of delivery, from November 1710 to June 1711, appear regularly in the margins.It is possible that the lectures are those of James Craig, who became Professor of...
Dates: 1710-1711.

Microfilm of lectures of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, and some related papers.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.923
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Introductory lectures, 1856-1864, of William Edmondstoune Aytoun: a series of lectures opening Aytoun's yearly courses (MS.4897);

Miscellaneous lectures, [1845-1865], of William Edmondstoune Aytoun (MS.4912);

Examination papers and class lists, [?1852-?1870], of William Edmondstoune Aytoun (MS.4913);

Exercises, [?1863-?1864], of William Edmondstoune Aytoun’s students (MS.4914).

Dates: [1845-?1870.]

Notebook of James Mutter, Ardrossan.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10633
Scope and Contents

Contains a lecture on a visit to Germany and an essay on Schiller.

Dates: 1865-1884.

Notebooks and papers, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10022/1-161
Scope and Contents

Papers mostly containing historical research notes, lectures, articles and or broadcasts, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes, minister of Halkirk (1934-1955) and of Hopeman (1955-1966) and historian of Highland evangelicalism. The collection consists mostly of notebooks, many very miscellaneous in content: only in principal content of each notebook or file is noted.

Dates: 1893-1976.

Notebooks of J S Haldane containing the text, which has been much revised, of a lecture on the relation of science and belief.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20656-20657
Scope and Contents

The lecture was delivered by J S Haldane, apparently to the Royal Medical School (MS.20657, folio 26 verso).

The lecture is undated but appears to have been delivered not very long after 1882, the death of T H Green (MS.20656, folio 12).

Dates: [After 1882.]

Notebooks of the Reverend William Graham.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6611/1-4
Dates: circa 1847-circa 1861.

Notes and correspondence of James R Anderson, concerning a bibliography of Philip Doddridge's ‘Life of Colonel Gardiner’.

 File
Identifier: MS.6156
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript of a lecture by James R Anderson, possibly given to Glasgow Bibliographical Society, apparently unprinted (folio 1);(ii) Extracts from an article and subsequent correspondence in the 'Scotsman', September-October 1918, relating to the Battle of Prestonpans and to Colonel Gardiner (folio 22);(iii) Notes, etc., relating to the compilation of the bibliography (folio 28);(iv) Letters, 1918-19, 1925, to...
Dates: 1918-1919, undated.

Notes for and drafts of the Lyell Lectures delivered in 1965 by Prof William Beattie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9374
Scope and Contents

With bibliographical notes.

Dates: circa 1945-1975.

Notes of Professor George Jardine on his 'Synopsis of Lectures on Logic and Belles Lettres'.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13844
Scope and Contents

Manuscript is interleaved with the printed text of the 1797 edition of Jardine's lectures.

Dates: 1797-1804.

"Observations upon Sir George Mackenzie's Institutions of the Law of Scotland delivered by Mr. John Spotiswood of that Ilk Advocate &c., to the Students in their Colledges, collected by some of their Students. Dumfries. Written in Anno 1717".

 Item
Identifier: MS.3412
Scope and Contents

Prefaced by an 'account of the most part of the books extant either in print or manuscript upon the Scots Law', and concluded by 'Ane Advice by Mr. Spotiswood to his students of Law as to there reading in the vaccance'.

Dates: 1717.

Papers, 1908-1971, of and concerning Thomas J Honeyman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9787
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, lectures, speeches, broadcasts and articles.

With papers, 1877-1934, of his father, Thomas Honeyman.

Dates: 1877-1971.

Papers, 1955-1971 and undated, of Louis Baume.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11022
Scope and Contents

Includes diaries and correspondence mostly concerning the South Georgia Survey Expedition of 1955-1956

Also included papers, 1924-1927, of Robert W Lloyd with lectures and correspondence on Alpine mountaineering.

Dates: 1903-1971 and undated.

Papers and correspondence of literary figures.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8693
Scope and Contents

Includes:

inaugural lecture, 1913, of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch as Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University

"El Tango Argentino", 1913, of R B Cunninghame Graham

"The Satire of Rage", 1913, of H W Nevinson

With 24 letters, 1890-1942, to Sir Sydney Cockerell from Quiller-Couch (16), Cunninghame Graham (3) and Nevinson (5).

Dates: 1890-1942.

Papers and photographs of Lord James Douglas Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13652
Scope and Contents

Further papers and photographs of Lord James Douglas Hamilton.

Dates: 1967-2015.

Papers, circa 1852-1872, of William Strathhenry Kemp.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9427
Scope and Contents

Includes historical and literary lectures and essays, and addresses to pupils at Falkirk Grammar School and Glasgow High School.

With papers, 1897-1904, of Robina Jane Kemp, including certificates and testimonials.

Dates: circa 1852-1904.

Papers, correspondence, cuttings and photographs of Esther Barbara Chalmers and the extended Chalmers and Lorimer families, including research notes and drafts concerning the histories of the families.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8695/1-336
Scope and Contents This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates: 1786-1983.