Items relating to Young's education; articles and reports on the paraffin industry.
Diaries and notebooks; correspondence; patents and legal cases; financial papers; technical and scientific notes; newspaper cuttings; educational and personal items.
Young, James, 1811-1883, chemistJames Young’s signed class tickets for: Chemistry at the Mechanics Class 1830-1831; Anderson’s University 1831-1832; Natural History at the Mechanics Class 1832-1833.
Detailed day by day accounts of jobs done in his father’s business, education, leisure and early interest in science.
James Young’s signed class ticket for astronomy.
Contains a few chemical notes.
Printed broadsheets from unknown source.
Entitled 'Apparatus used in Class'. Lecture course in Natural Philosophy with apparatus used. Entries about scientific meeting at the back.
Chemical notes.
Signed admission tickets for James Young with maps of the host city including:
Dublin 1835;
Glasgow 1840;
Manchester 1842;
Oxford 1847;
Birmingham 1849;
Edinburgh 1850;
Ipswich 1851;
Liverpool 1854;
James Young and Edward Meldrum’s tickets for Glasgow 1855;
Aberdeen 1859;
Associate and Member’s ticket for Newcastle 1863;
Dundee 1867.
Account of visit to Dublin for the British Association. List of expenses and notes on meetings of scientific groups in Glasgow.
Letter of introduction for A.D. Bache, President of Girard College, Philadelphia, to James Young.
Graham, Thomas, 1805-1869, chemistMentions James Young's ability both conducting experiments and also lecturing during Graham's absence through illness.
Original letter and typed transcript.