Index of accounts at front of volume.
Includes list of tickets issued for a conversational meeting of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, c 1840; cost of gas consumption, 1840s; note of an experiment on photogenic paper.
Endorsed on spine: MSS 46
Contains: catalogue of John Anderson's Library (ff.1-61); catalogue of fossils arranged according to the tables of Mr. Babington, Lecturer in Chemistry, London (ff.67-103); catalogue of apparatus, furniture etc belonging to Anderson's Institution, June 1799 (ff.112-131).
There are several blank folios and pencil annotations. Folios 132-134 contain several endorsements confirming the transfer of these items to the managers of Anderson's Institution, 1799-1806, and notes by James Smith, of Jordanhill, 1831, including additional donations of books.
Sin títuloIncludes a transcript of the 'last Will of Professor [John] Anderson'.
At rear of volume: memorial to the managers and trustees of Anderson's University, 4 September 1849, concerning financial difficulties in running the evening classes; correspondence with Dr. Frederick Penny, 28 September and 3 October 1849, on the content of the chemistry lectures; correspondence with the directors of the Glasgow Athenaeum, 20 September 1850, concerning access for their members to Anderson's University evening classes.
With transcript.
Includes extracts from the will and codicil of John Anderson, the founder of Anderson's University; former report, 1825; statement of accounts; account for Museum, 1831; engraving of interior of Museum by Robert Hart.
Letter from the Reverend James Dunn, Campbell Street, Glasgow to John Parsell, accepting election as a trustee of Anderson's Institution.