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Notebooks of Sir James Hall entitled "Chemical experiments made with a view to obviate some of the difficulties in Dr Hutton's 'Theory of the Earth'".
The notebooks give a day to day account, with sketches, of experiments made between 1798 and 1806. Most of the material is embodied in a paper read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 3rd June 1805, entitled 'Account of a series of experiments, showing the effects of compression in modifying the action of heat'.
Notes and sketches made on voyages from Jamaica to London and back.
Notes on astronomy, from the lectures of Professor William Law at Edinburgh University, by John Erskine.
The notes consist of commentaries on Ptolomy`s ‘Almagest’ and descriptions of the rotations of the planets, with several sketches. There is also part of a lecture on biology (‘De Corpore Animato`, folio 79); some pages are missing at the end of the latter lecture.
Notes on the Romans, and on a Greek author, written by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, probably from the lectures of his Regent, Andrew Burnet, at Glasgow University.
The volume contains part of a series of lectures on the social, religious, and cultural life of the Romans (folios 1-38), very incomplete due to missing pages. An inverted series of notes contains a glossary or vocabulary to the oration of Isocrates to Demonicus, sections 1-9, also very incomplete (inverted folios 1-12). Two pages (inverted folios 13-14) contain an ink sketch of a man training a horse.
Original artwork, including preliminary sketches and two versions of the front cover of Cam Kennedy`s graphic edition of Robert Louis Stevenson`s "Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".
Original sketch for Faculty of Advocates Library book-plate.
Papers and art work of Angela Lemaire, artist and engraver.
Papers concerning James Pittendrigh MacGillivray.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.
Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.
Papers, including notebooks, sketches and correspondence, of Phyllis M Bone.
Papers of Agnes Miller Parker.
Includes sketches, proofs, engravings for book illustrations and 560 letters, mostly concerning her engravings.
Papers of Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Includes commonplace books, diaries, books of etchings, sketchbooks and a manuscript "Remembrances of Woodhouselee".
Papers of and concerning Joseph Hislop.
Including notes, sketches, typescripts of broadcast talks, photographs, correspondence, press cuttings and concert and opera programmes.
Papers of and relating to Sir David Young Cameron, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society of Arts, including sketches, manuscripts of lectures and addresses, correspondence and printed items.
Papers of George Thomson, chiefly concerning Robert Bums.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Papers of Margery Clinton, potter, containing correspondence, financial records, working papers and other related material.
Papers of Naomi Mitchison.
Includes poems, beginning of a novel, two plays, sketches of books, two diaries and paper, "The African Solution".
Papers of O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.
Includes family correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, sketches, drawings, photographs and personal memorabilia.