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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 Robert Sibbald containing geological and topographical material.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.8
Scope and Contents

(i) `A Catalogue of Mineralls and figur`d stones found in Scotland in M.R.W. cabinet` (page 4). An abridged copy by Robert Sibbald of the catalogue of material owned by Robert Wodrow in 1703.

(ii) Copies, not in Sibbald`s hand, of descriptions of Shetland and the Hebrides written in the second half of the 17th century (inverted page 1).

Dates: 2nd half of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.

Notebook of Stewart A Lithgow., 1852-1853.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2551
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains; a diary, 1852-1853 (folio 6); a report on a medical case encountered on the whaling-cruise of 1853 (folio 18); and notes of lectures on physiology and music.

Dates: 1852-1853.

Notebook of Susan Marjoribanks containing brief notes of botanical and common names of plants observed, with dates, and drawings of selected specimens.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8913
Scope and Contents

The compiler is presumably the youngest daughter of Sir John Marjoribanks, 2nd Baronet, of Lees.

Dates: 1820.