Precis of account of unveiling ceremony published in Glasgow Herald and extract from minutes of the governors and committees annual report in 1907.
Typed sheet of notes regarding Ferguson’s slow progress in producing the catalogue. No author.
Typed sheet of notes.
Typed sheet.
Extracts taken from the General Register Office 11 May 1967.
Publication by Pall Mall Press in 1959 on James Young.
2 copies, second copy donated by Stirlingshire County Library, 1971.
Pamphlet describing James Young’s work in the oil 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, chemistPhotocopy of published letter printed in ‘Nature’ Volume 182, 1958 regarding W.H. Perkin and the establishment controversy.
Magazine article in Shell BP News No. 126 1958 with reference to James Young in an article on Scottish oils.
Magazine by BP Volume 34 Number 5, 1958, with reference to James Young including a photograph of Miss Thom in an article on Scottish oils.
Typescript notes relating to comments made in Young’s letter 19 April 1839 discussing the need for a civil engineering school.
Endorsed with notes by Miss A Thom. Both photographs include handwritten notes on reverse side by Miss Thom accounting the relevance of the images to James Young.