Describes experiments carried out at various locations in Scotland. Cover title: Of the barometer and barometrical mensurations.
Refers to experiments in magnetism.
Papers relating to Professor Anderson's law plea with Glasgow College. Anderson had supported Morthland in the initial stages of the dispute. Morthland died shortly after the conclusion of the dispute.
Manuscript of part of volume 1. This work was based on Anderson's annual course of lectures and experiments at the University of Glasgow. The first edition was published in 1786. MS notes in another hand at the rear of the volume, c1804, with lists of students at Anderson's Institution.
Personal items; letters; writings on scientific, military, antiquarian and other topics; material relating to Anderson's involvement with the University of Glasgow.
Anderson, John, 1726-1796, natural philosopherPapers relating to Professor Anderson's law plea with Glasgow College.
Lectures delivered at the University of Glasgow, with notes for experiments. Includes references to Captain Cook's late voyages to the South Seas.
Manuscript letter, with photocopy and transcript. Thanks Anderson for the books he has sent and is pleased with Anderson's Institutes [of Physics]. Franklin's health is not good.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, statesman, diplomat, scientist and philosopherMS letter, with transcript; covering MS letter with transcript and MS sheet.
Conveys the thanks of the Considerable Club for sending Lang's essay on miracles. Lists members of the Club and mentions that Anderson's sister is being married the next day.
Covering letter from Thomas Lang [grandson of the Reverend Gilbert Lang] at Kilmarnock to James A. Anderson of Carlung [1785-1863, nephew of John Anderson], 24 May 1853, enclosing this and Anderson's 1755 letter to Gilbert Lang, and a sample page from Lang's sermon book, to explain the reference to the size of his handwriting.
MS letter with transcript and negative photographs. Anderson is in London as tutor to Lord Doune, and looks forward to Lang's visit.
MS letter, with transcript. On Anderson's hopes of the Chair of Latin or Hebrew at Glasgow College - he felt that he was "jockied out" and was instead elected Professor of Oriental Languages - his visit to France and the Catholic converts he has met there.
Wilson asks Anderson to discount a bill of William Stevenson's for £3/12/- held by Messrs Glendy and Clark, divinity students.
MS letter in Hebrew, with translation. Pinto greets his "master and teacher, learned in the Torah. Rabbi Anderson" and promises to do service both by day and night". Translation by Professor Noah Morris, 1938.