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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:

Papers of the Reverend Robert Lister Turner (1875-1949), a missionary in Papua.

 File
Identifier: MS.9770
Scope and Contents The Reverend Turner was sent to Papua in 1902 by the London Missionary Society, and worked both in the mission field and in Lawes College, Isuleilei, until his retirement in 1939.The papers consist of the following.(i) Typescripts with manuscript corrections, undated, of four lectures on the ethnology of Papua. The fourth lecture concerns the history of the London Missionary Society in Papua. Two pages are missing at the beginning of the third lecture. (Folio 1.)...
Dates: 1910-1939, undated.

Papers of the Reverend William Matheson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 1(1)-Box 14(10)
Scope and Contents

Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.

Dates: 1707-1977.

Papers of Thomas Aitken.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8839
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts of antiquarian, scientific and medical discourses, many of which were read at meetings of Inverness Scientific and Field Club.

Dates: circa 1867-1880.

Papers of Thomas Johnston.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5862
Scope and Contents

Including notebooks, sketchbooks, correspondence, and manuscripts of lectures and addresses.

Dates: 1904-1957.

Papers of Thomas Mackay Cooper.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6188/1-26
Scope and Contents The surviving personal and legal papers of Thomas Mackay Cooper, Baron Cooper of Culross, judge and historian (1892-1955). Lord Cooper passed Advocate in 1915 and was created a K.C. in 1927. He was Conservative M.P. for West Edinburgh, 1935-41, Solicitor-General for Scotland, 1935, and Lord Advocate, 1935-41. In 1941 he succeeded as Lord Justice Clerk with the judicial title of Lord Cooper, and became Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session from January 1947 to...
Dates: circa 1920-circa 1955.

Papers of William Douglas Home.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9807
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of "The Unhung Parliament", "The Christmas Truce", and "Retirement Age", and a lecture delivered at Lille University.

Dates: circa 1984-1988.

Papers of William Johnstone.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8877
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of books, articles, and lectures.

Dates: 1923-1980.

Papers of William MacLellan.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10630
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of lectures, programmes, newsletters and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1954.

Papers of William Will.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7534
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and 68 letters from, among others, John Buchan, Sir Ian Hamilton and Neil Munro, on literary and personal matters.

Dates: 1919-1939.

Papers relating to the literary activities of George Sutherland Fraser.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.4681/1-27
Scope and Contents

Comprising typescript versions of poems and typescripts of lectures and broadcast talks, with selection of literary correspondence.

Dates: Circa 1940-circa 1969.

Precis and photocopy of lecture, 1934, on "The Submarine and Anti-submarine War, 1914-1918", delivered by A E M Cunninghame Graham, to the RAF Staff College, Andover.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5705
Scope and Contents

With photocopy account, 1941, of a voyage to Murmansk, "Random Recollections of Hitler`s War".

Dates: 1934, 1941.

Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents

Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.

Dates: 1648-20th century.

Series of fifteen lectures of Joseph Black on the subject of heat, delivered at Edinburgh University.

 File
Identifier: MS.8487
Scope and Contents

The subject matter is essentially similar to other manuscript versions, e.g. MSS.3533 and 3534, and to the printed text, ‘Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry’ but the arrangement of the material is different.

Dates: 2nd half of 18th century.

Some Burns Characteristics; or, A Cluster of Flower and Fruit from the Poet`s Garden.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13667
Scope and Contents

A printed volume based on a lecture delivered before the Rosebery Burns Club, Glasgow, 10 March 1903, by James Walsh.

The Volume is dedicated to Mr McGill, who was a `personal friend` Walsh.

A handwritten grace, `Oh thou who blest the loaves and fishes` is inscribed on the last page of the volume. It is attributed to Robert Burns, but appears to be a reworking of an earlier version by Jonathan Swift.

Dates: 1903.