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Military sketches
GB 249 OA/4/5 · Pièce · 1780s
Fait partie de John Anderson papers

Contents: I. Of war as a scientific art; II. Of the improvement of artillery. The latter title is not actually present in the volume.

GB 249 OA/5/1 · Pièce · 1760
Fait partie de John Anderson papers

MS copy made by John Anderson, Glasgow College, 1 October 1760, of a catalogue of curisosities, 1703. Prefaced 'Copy of a small tattered book lent to me by the Reverend Mr. Peter Woodrow, Minister at Turbowtoun [ie Tarbolton], which he says is a catalogue of the curiosities collected by his father the Minister of Eastwood'. Lists natural history objects, fossils and antiquities.

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Catalogue of fossils
GB 249 OA/5/3 · Pièce · July 1767
Fait partie de John Anderson papers

List of Anderson's own collection of fossils, over 800 specimens stored in various locations, including, when known, the localities where the fossils were found. Da Costa, from whom Anderson purchased fossils, presented him with a collection of shells. Cover title: Optics - the notebook was intended to hold lecture notes on optics.

Military essays
GB 249 OA/4/6 · Pièce · 1780s
Fait partie de John Anderson papers

Contents: Definitions of military terms; Of war as a scientific art.

GB 249 OA/5/4 · Pièce · 1770s
Fait partie de John Anderson papers

Lists 335 specimens. Title at rear of volume, "Catalogue of fossils which are contained in a large wooden case in Mr Anderson's house, having this inscription upon it 'Fossilia secundum systema Cronstedt'". The place of origin is mentioned and the synonyms of Wallerius, Linnaeus and Da Costa. The volume has been reused later to record weather observations 1831-1834.

De lumine
GB 249 OA/6/14 · Pièce · [1770s]
Fait partie de John Anderson papers

Notes in Latin, possibly for a lecture.

Lectures on experimental philosophy
GB 249 OA/6/13 · Pièce · [1770s]
Fait partie de John Anderson papers

Lectures delivered at the University of Glasgow, with notes for experiments. Includes references to Captain Cook's late voyages to the South Seas.

Notebook of John Anderson
GB 249 OA/6/16 · Pièce · late 18th century
Fait partie de John Anderson papers

Contains lists of Anderson's students, with the amount of fees paid and with remarks about some students.