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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 502 Collections and/or Records:

Academic papers and reports by other bodies relating to gender equality issues, used by Esther Breitenbach to inform her work for the Scottish Executive., 1993-2005.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13806/47
Scope and Contents The file contains Una Maclean, 'Women of the Western Isles', The Sabhal Mor Lecture 1993; Richard Parry, 'The Role of Central Units in the Scottish Executive', University of Edinburgh (2001); Moira MacMillan, Nick McKerrell and Angus McFadyen (eds.), 'Women in the Legal Profession in Scotland: A study by the Law Society of Scotland and the Equal Opportunities Commission Scotland' (2005); 'Gender Research and Data on Rural Issues' (2006); and Scottish Poverty Information Unit, Glasgow...
Dates: 1993-2005.

Archives of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, consisting of incoming correspondence, lectures and papers read to the Society; including the original manuscript, 1871, of the essay of Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Intermittent Lights'.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4534/1-183
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise two distinct yet related groups, giving in all quite a comprehensive account of the Society's history, and spanning more than a century of rapid scientific and technological achievement.

Dates: 1819-1940, 1946, undated.

Articles and a lecture of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’., 1932-1935, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26061
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Printed copies of miscellaneous articles, 1932-1935 (folio l); (ii) Manuscript draft of a review of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, ‘Robert Bruce’, 1934 (folio l2); (iii) Typescript and printed version of 'A Novelist looks at the cinema', published in ‘Cinema Quarterly’, Winter 1935, pages 81-85 (folio l3); (iv) Typescript of an article on the anthropologist, Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, undated (folio 22). It was published by Douglas F Young in ‘Beyond the sunset’...
Dates: 1932-1935, undated.

Articles and lectures of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., Circa 1925-1964.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.50171-50214
Scope and Contents

Among the papers are drafts, superseded folios, complete manuscripts and typescripts. Many of Fairbairn`s articles evolved from papers and lectures read by him at various meetings. Bibliographical references are included for the published articles.

Dates: Circa 1925-1964.

Autograph manuscripts of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh., 1786-1822.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.6.1-81.6.32
Scope and Contents Hume originally wrote out his lectures in bound notebooks, but over the years he revised, added, and deleted, and in many cases he rewrote pages or sections on separate sheets, and the original structure is usually destroyed. Sometimes the original version has survived alongside the new, sometimes it has not; some pages whose context has disappeared are collected in Adv.MS.81.6.32, which also contains a section on bankruptcy which Hume apparently later omitted (not printed in the Stair...
Dates: 1786-1822.