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Includes 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.

Includes epitome of rules for regulation of popular evening classes, October 1854, and library rules, no date.

Register of attendance of trustees at quarterly meetings. Details recorded include name, date of election, date of ceasing to be a trustee and reason, name of replacement and date.

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.