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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:

Notebook of Sir James Hall entitled "Chemical Experiments made with a view to obviate some of the difficulties in Dr Hutton's 'Theory of the Earth'"., 1803-1806, 1809.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5020
Scope and Contents

The volume also contains a letter, 1805, from Josiah Byerley, who helped James Hall in some of his experiments (folio 180); and two letters, 1809, to Edward Blore, possibly about the illustrations to Hall's ‘Essay on the origin, history and principles of gothic architecture' (London, 1813) (folios 191, 193).

Dates: 1803-1806, 1809.

Notebook of Sir James Matthew Barrie, for 'Homework' on logic, 15 May-29 June 1880., 1880.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6655
Scope and Contents

The notebook consists of answers to the exercises in "Jevon's Logic" (William Stanley Jevons, ‘Elementary lessons in logic, deductive and inductive’ (London, 1870)), written out fairly.

Dates: 1880.

Notebook of Sir James Matthew Barrie, for rough notes on Alexander Campbell Fraser's lectures on logic and metaphysics., 1880-1881.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6657
Scope and Contents

The notebook also contains the rough work for the notes written out fairly in MS.6656. Much is in shorthand. There are also rough notes on mathematics and natural philosophy.

Dates: 1880-1881.

Notebook of Sir James Matthew Barrie originally intended for rough notes on George Chrystal's mathematical lectures, but also containing notes on natural philosophy, logic, and metaphysics., 1880-1881.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6653
Scope and Contents

At the end of the notebook (folios 1-7 inverted) are further notes on philosophers and philosophy; these are mainly in longhand, whereas the other notes, apart from the actual working out of problems, etc., are for the most part in shorthand.

Dates: 1880-1881.