Lecture notes, notebooks and operator's books for experiments; lists of scientific instruments; financial receipts and correspondence; legal documents relating to Anderson's disputes with University of Glasgow.
This section comprises the following series:
-
Paris Exposition 1900: general organisation
-
Paris Exposition 1900: International Assembly
-
Paris Exposition 1900: Rue des Nations
-
Paris Exposition 1900: other conferences
-
Paris Exposition 1900
-
Glasgow Exhibition 1901
-
International Assembly Paris 1900 and Glasgow 1901
-
Congrès Mondial des Associations
-
Cities and Town Planning Exhibition, Edinburgh
-
Cities and Town Planning Exhibition, Crosby Hall, Chelsea, London
-
Cities and Town Planning Exhibition, Dublin
-
Miscellaneous material relating to various exhibitions
This section comprises the following series:
-
Art Theories, the Museum, the Art School, Indian Art, Art in Dunfermline and Dundee, Art in 1900, Architecture
-
Celtic Art
-
Art and Architecture: printed material and press-cuttings
-
Miscellaneous material on Art and Art Theories
The bulk of the papers are minutes of boards and committees.
Manuscript catalogues reflecting John Anderson's interest in fossils, natural history subjects and antiquities; diary of a tour to the Western Isles; account of the Antonine Wall.
John Anderson's writings and experiments on artillery; plan of the Greenock batteries, c 1795.