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Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Notes, made by William J Russell, on lectures on chemistry delivered by Thomas Graham, Professor of Chemistry, at University College, London, in the session 1848-1849.

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Identifier: MSS.8920-8921
Scope and Contents

The notes, evidently a fair copy, cover an entire general course, the greater part of which is concerned with inorganic subjects.

Dates: 1848-1849.

Notes, mainly on geometry, by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.1
Scope and Contents Moor`s interest in mathematics predated his classical studies and lasted throughout his life. The present volume contains geometrical theorems and calculations, some avowedly copied from elsewhere, many apparently original.The non-mathematical contents (apart from several invitations to funerals, written over by Moor) are: notes on manuscripts of the Greek mathematical writers (excerpted from ‘Bibliotheca bibliothecarum manuscriptorum nova’ by B de Montfaucon) (folios 1-6); a...
Dates: Mid 18th century.

Notes of David Hume`s lectures on Scots Law at Edinburgh University, taken by an unknown student.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.10(I)-(IV)
Scope and Contents

The main differences from the Stair Society edition are that Part II, Chapters XIV-XVI appear after Chapter VIII (as in Adv.MSS.7.2.4-7.2.17), and that the chapters on Insurance (Adv.MS.81.6.12), and on Teinds and Patronage (Adv.MS.81.6.31) are omitted. For cases where these notes fill gaps in Hume`s manuscript, see the prefaces to the Stair Society edition. This is apparently a fair copy of notes taken at the lectures.

Dates: 1822.

Notes of David Hume`s lectures on Scots Law at Edinburgh University, taken by an unknown student; volume 1., 1822.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.10(I)
Scope and Contents

At the beginning of the volume, space is left for a `Memoir of Baron Hume`, which has not been written or inserted.

Dates: 1822.

Notes of proceedings in the elections, 1790-1837, of representative peers for Scotland, compiled by William B D D Turnbull.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.16
Scope and Contents

Included in the manuscript are the names of those who voted in the elections, and copies of relevant documents. The paper of the manuscript is watermarked 1839. At the end is inserted a newspaper cutting on the election of 1847.

Dates: 1839, or after.

'Of the Objects of Chemistry. Explanation of the Terms And A View of the principal Operations & Instruments'., 1790.

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Identifier: MS.2725
Scope and Contents

The manuscript was copied by Sir Andrew Lauder Dick, Baronet, from a manuscript lent to Sir Andrew Lauder Dick by Dr Lashlie, about 1770 (folio iii). It is incomplete.

Dates: 1790.

Official and private papers of Alexander Walker during his period as governor of St Helena, 1823-1828, and until his death in retirement in 1831., 1734-1830, undated.

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Identifier: MSS.13741-13774
Scope and Contents

Whilst at St Helena, Alexander Walker busied himself in promoting the agricultural potential of the island and in tackling the question of slavery.

Dates: 1734-1830, undated.

Official copies, 16th century, of English state papers, 1571-1572.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.9
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Responsum summarium eorum quae serenissima Regina Angliae ... proposuit in colloquio habito de tribus Articulis cum illustrissumis Oratoribus Christianissimi Regis`, 24 August 1571, concerning the proposed marriage of Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou. See ‘The Compleat Ambassador’ pages 131-133. (Folio 1.)(ii) Instructions to Sir Thomas Smith on his embassy to France, 3 December 1571. (Folio 3.)(iii)...
Dates: 1571-1572.

Official letters to Hugh Elliot from and to the Foreign Office during Elliot's embassies at Copenhagen and Dresden., 1782-1802.

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Identifier: MS.13021
Scope and Contents

The series is not complete, and, except for a draft of the dispatch describing the Danish coup d'état of 1784, the earlier years at Copenhagen are thinly represented, but the events surrounding the clash between Sweden and Denmark in 1788 are well documented.

Dates: 1782-1802.

Official papers and correspondence, 1782-March 1783, of Sir Robert Liston as secretary to Lord Mountstuart in Turin., 1782-1783.

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Identifier: MS.5524
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Copies of Robert Liston's letters to Lord Grantham (folio 1);

(ii) Copies of Grantham's letters to Liston (folio 47);

(iii) Copies of official papers (folio 67).

Dates: 1782-1783.