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Minutes. Administrative records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records of what was said and done at meetings or conferences.

Found in 964 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook, containing minutes and lists of members of the Poker Club., 1776-1784.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3458
Scope and Contents

On folio i is a list, in the hand of Alexander Carlyle, of the members in 1776. The volume also contains "Notes from Boswell's Life of Johnson" (folio 39), "Notes from Minutes of St. Leonard's College - beginning 1710" (folio 42), and other miscellaneous fragments.

Dates: 1776-1784.

Notebook of Andrew Rule, a schoolmaster in Aberdeenshire.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.12
Scope and Contents

As well as teaching in a number or local schools, mostly in the parish of Glenmuick, Rule taught book-keeping, navigation and arithmetic to private pupils. His notebook includes accounts, lists of books, minutes of visits to the schools by the committee of the presbytery, and reflections on the events of the year. These last are mostly of a religious nature, but he mentions his own and his children`s affairs and (folio 48) the political events of 1745.

Dates: 1713-1755.

Notebook of Walter McCulloch, schoolmaster and session clerk of St Ninians., 1778-1803.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9823
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains the following: Lists of births and deaths in the parish, 1783-1803 (folio 1); Heritors' minutes, 1778-1785 (folios 90, 121); Notes for the first Statistical Account, circa 1795 (folio 111); 'Some remarks on the Parish of St Ninians with relation to the poor', circa 1759 (folio 123).

Dates: 1778-1803.

Notebooks and papers, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10022/1-161
Scope and Contents

Papers mostly containing historical research notes, lectures, articles and or broadcasts, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes, minister of Halkirk (1934-1955) and of Hopeman (1955-1966) and historian of Highland evangelicalism. The collection consists mostly of notebooks, many very miscellaneous in content: only in principal content of each notebook or file is noted.

Dates: 1893-1976.

Official correspondence sent by Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell, of Inverneil, to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, chiefly during the former's Governorship of Madras, 1786-1789.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3837-3839
Scope and Contents

The correspondence, which includes lengthy memoranda and minutes by Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell and others, deals in considerable detail with the political, civil, and military affairs of Madras, and covers such subjects as relations with the French, the Dutch, and the Indian Princes, finance, trade, army appointments, contracts, and topography.

Dates: 1785-1794.

Papers, 1808, concerning "Mr Rickard’s minute" on the Advocate-General’s report on public law in India, and a march route, 1807, of Alexander Walker’s field detachment in Kathiawar., 1807, 1808.

 File
Identifier: MS.13690
Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains:

(i) "Mr. Rickards' minute" on the Advocate-General's report on public law in India, 1 December 1808 (folio 1);

(ii) Memorandum, probably by Alexander Walker, on Mr Rickard's minute on the public law, 1808 (folio 13);

(iii) March route of Walker's field detachment in Kathiawar, July-October 1807 (folio 28).

Dates: 1807, 1808.