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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 152 Collections and/or Records:

Notes taken by William Carstares Dunlop, of Sir William Hamilton's lectures on logic, delivered at Edinburgh University.

 File
Identifier: MS.9166
Scope and Contents

This is the second volume only, covering lectures numbered XXI-XXXIV.

Dates: 1851.

Notes titled, ‘Physica’ by Gerbrand Ignatius Moens of a course of lectures of Friar Morus on physics, possibly at the Jesuit College of La Flêche.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.2
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.195) includes the reference: (Rob.III.1.6).

Dates: 1699-1700.

Papers, including lecture notes and parish visitors books, of the Graham family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6559/1-20
Scope and Contents

Collection of volumes of lecture notes and parish visitors' books of James Thomas Graham, minister of Dean Park, Glasgow, his son William McMaster Graham, minister of Ardersier East, James Stewart Graham, and Agnes Graham.

Dates: 1859-1954, undated.

Papers of Dr Esther Breitenbach.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13806/1-118
Scope and Contents The collection reflects Dr Esther Breitenbach's feminist activism from the 1970s onwards. This includes papers reflecting her contributions to the Women’s Legal and Financial Independence Campaign, the Radical Scotland Women’s Group, and the European Forum of Socialist Feminists, as well as papers relating to the activities of the Women's Co-ordination Group, which advanced the demand for 50:50 gender representation. The collection includes assorted annotated pamphlets, conference papers,...
Dates: 1966-2014.

Papers of Dr Farquhar Macintosh.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14003
Content Description Correspondence and other papers of and about Dr Farquhar Macintosh, teacher and educationalist and supporter of Gaelic. He was born in Elgol, Isle of Skye, on 27 October 1923, a native speaker of Gaelic, and died in Edinburgh, 18 November 2007. He went to Edinburgh University and Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow, and became headmaster of Portree High School (1962-1966) and Oban High School (1967-1972), and finally Rector of the Royal High School, Edinburgh (1972 to 1989). He served...
Dates: 1940s-2007

Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.7201-7515
Scope and Contents George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates: 1804-1872, undated.

Papers of Handel Kay, municipal engineer.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10350
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Kay`s professional career and the town of Denholm, Roxburghshire.

Dates: 1919-1979.

Papers of the Reverend William James Anderson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7993
Scope and Contents

Comprising typescripts of theological lecture notes taken at Fribourg University, and of a translation of A G Sertillanges, "S Thomas d`Aquin".

Dates: 1925-1927.

Papers on climbing of James H B Bell.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9960
Scope and Contents

Includes:

eight log books, 1925-1972

notes, 1927-1963, for lectures on climbing

notes, undated, on new climbs.

Dates: 1925-1972 and undated.

Student lecture notes, taken by William Stirling, of an entire course of lectures on physiology delivered by Professor John Hughes Bennett at Edinburgh University, 2 November 1868-31 March, 1869.

 File
Identifier: MS.9165
Scope and Contents

The notes were apparently written down during the lectures, but there are a few later additions. William Stirling eventually became Professor of Physiology in the Victoria University, Manchester.

Dates: 1868-1869.

Student notes, in more than one hand, of various medical lectures delivered apparently at the University of Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: MS.3543
Scope and Contents

On page 206 occur the words 'Lectures from Dr. Rutherford'.

From a comparison with his printed works it seems likely that the clinical lectures beginning on page 433 were given by William Cullen.

Dates: 18th century.

Student notes of medical lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3533-3541
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1767-1772.

Student notes of the ‘Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres’ of Hugh Blair.

 File
Identifier: MS.850
Scope and Contents

The lectures contain (folios 51 verso, 59 verso, 76 verso) the criticisms of Dr Johnson omitted from the published ‘Lectures’, and in particular the rendering of a passage of Addison in the style of Johnson (folio 83) quoted in part by Boswell in his ‘Life’ (edited by Birkbeck Hill, 1934, etc., volume iii, page 172).

Dates: 18th century.

`Suppletory Notes To Sir George Mackenzies Institutions by Mr. Alexander Bayne, Advocate Professor of the Scots Law at Edinburgh.` These are apparently a student`s notes of Bayne`s lectures, although neither the name of the writer nor the date of dictation is given.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.34
Scope and Contents

The notes are almost identical with the text published as ‘Notes for the Use of the Students of the Municipal Law in the University of Edinburgh: Being a Supplement to Sir George Mackenzie`s Institutions’. They are followed, as in several copies of the dictates in Edinburgh University Library, by notes of Bayne`s lectures on Criminal Law; these differ considerably from his ‘Institutions of the Criminal Law of Scotland’; for a much fuller version see Adv.MS.25.3.12.

Dates: 2nd quarter of 18th century.

Volume containing a student's notes on twenty-nine lectures on conveyancing, delivered by Robert Bell, Writer to the Signet and advocate, lecturer in conveyancing to the Society of Writers to the Signet, 1793-1816.

 File
Identifier: MS.9390
Scope and Contents

The manuscript can be dated circa 1796-1800 by internal references to contemporary cases, from the watermarks of the paper, and by comparison with Robert Bell's printed lectures.

Dates: [?1796-?1800.]