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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:

Papers of John Purves on the relationship between Italian and English literature., 1920-1922.

 File
Identifier: MS.15880 (1)
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates: 1920-1922.

Papers of Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley relating to the 51st (Highland) Division in the First and Second World Wars.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7380/1-95
Scope and Contents

Maps, accounts, diaries, lectures and other papers, mainly concerning operations, 1942-1943, of the 51st (Highland) Division in North Africa and Sicily, together with a smaller quantity of associated post-war correspondence and some papers, 1918, concerning the Division in the First World War.

Dates: 1914-1976, undated.

Papers of Professor Gavin McCrone

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14067/1-15
Scope and Contents Memoirs of Gavin McCrone and papers connected with his role as a Senior, later Chief Economic Adviser in the Scottish Office, 1971-1980, and his management of two Scottish Office departments: the Industry Department for Scotland, 1980-1987, and the Scottish Development Department, 1987-1992. These are mostly comprised of reports and private background briefing papers for ministers, with some unpublished speech materials. After retiring from the civil service in 1992, McCrone held...
Dates: 1966-2011.

Papers of Richard B Haldane, Viscount Haldane., 1875-[?1936], undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20213-20223
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of notebooks containing notes on and for lectures and essays chiefly on philosophy (MSS.20213-20219), a quantity of writings on various topics (many incomplete) written on loose sheets (MSS.20220-20222) and press cuttings concerning the death and funeral of Richard B Haldane (MS.20223).

Dates: 1875-[?1936], undated.

Papers of Sir Harold Montague (Monty) Finniston.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11424
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, lectures, reports and photographs.

Dates: 20th century.

Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)

Papers of the Reverend James Cumming.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5931
Scope and Contents

Including diaries, sermons, and lectures, with a genealogical tree showing the family of the Reverend Prof David Cairns and his connection with Cumming.

Dates: 1853-1892.

Papers of the Reverend Prof Franz Hildebrandt.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9251
Scope and Contents

Includes sermons, lectures, notes for published works, correspondence, pastoral notebooks and diaries.

Dates: 1926-1985.

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 the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, mostly containing printed material, some press cuttings and photographs., 1821-1978, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.7619/82-102
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including billet books, printed "Transactions", minute book, recent administrative correspondence and other earlier documents.

Dates: 1821-1978, undated.

Papers of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, relating to Keith lectures., 1906-1970, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.7619/100-102
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including billet books, printed "Transactions", minute book, recent administrative correspondence and other earlier documents.

Dates: 1906-1970, undated.

Papers of the Saltire Society concerning lectures, visits, and speaking engagements., 1948-1973, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9393/768-770
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Records of the Saltire Society including minutes, reports and correspondence. The Society's aims are the strengthening and preservation of Scottish culture and tradition, and its archives reflect its numerous activities in these fields.

Dates: 1948-1973, undated.

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.