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Notebooks.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books of blank pages, usually ruled, used for taking notes, especially by pupils and students for taking class notes or writing or drawing exercises. .

Found in 3337 Collections and/or Records:

Notebooks of J S Haldane containing the text, which has been much revised, of a lecture on the relation of science and belief.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20656-20657
Scope and Contents

The lecture was delivered by J S Haldane, apparently to the Royal Medical School (MS.20657, folio 26 verso).

The lecture is undated but appears to have been delivered not very long after 1882, the death of T H Green (MS.20656, folio 12).

Dates: [After 1882.]

Notebooks of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo., 1747-1796, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24538-24589
Scope and Contents

Lord Monboddo kept two main series of notebooks, and references to them often occur in his papers.

Dates: 1747-1796, undated.

Notebooks of John Gray containing lecture notes, undated, taken whilst a student at Edinburgh University (where he graduated MA in 1664)., [Before 1663.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16446-16447
Scope and Contents

The notes are chiefly on philosophy, in particular the works of Aristotle (MS.16446, folios 91-165, MS.16447). The notes are undated, but those on ‘Ethica nicomachea’ by Aristotle, were dictated by Thomas Craufurd, who died in 1662.

Both volumes are blind-stamped IG and both originally had clasps, which were subsequently torn away.

Dates: [Before 1663.]

Notebooks of John Hill Burton entitled 'Adversaria', volumes II-IV and VI. , 1839, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9431-9434
Scope and Contents

The notes consist of comments and excerpts from books on historical and legal subjects. Volume III is dated 1839, the rest are undated, but are presumably of the same period.

Dates: 1839, undated.

Notebooks of John Inglis, Lord Glencorse, Lord President of the Court of Session, containing full notes of the cases in which he participated both as advocate (criminal cases only, 1841-1858) and judge (civil and criminal cases, 1858-1889).

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.38.1.1-38.6.2
Scope and Contents

Each volume has a contents list. Inglis was Lord Advocate in 1852 and 1858, Lord Justice Clerk from 1858 to 1867, and Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session from 1867 to 1891.

Dates: 1841-1889.