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Glasgow Chemists' and Druggists' Association records

• GB 249 T-MIN/5
• Collection
• c. 1853 - 1880

Membership card; library catalogue; press report of Glasgow meeting.

Glasgow Chemists' and Druggists' Association

Photographs and illustrations of people, buildings, machinery and equipment and events associated with University of Strathclyde and its antecedents

• GB 249 OP
• Collection
• 1853 to date

Black and white, sepia and colour photographic prints and negatives, including glass negatives; transparencies; postcards; sketches and artists' impressions.Photographs of people are mainly individual and group photographs of staff and studen...

Fragment of an Australian goldfields diary

• GB 249 T-MIN/1
• Item
• 1856

The diary covers the period May-November 1856. The anonymous writer, a farmer's son, and his brother appear to have had gold claims at Whitehorse, near Ballarat for about three years. The writer then describes life aboard ship on a voyage (wi...

Notes taken by student at lectures on chemistry by Frederick Penny

• GB 249 OM/474
• Item
• 1859 - 1862

Notes taken by unknown student (possibly with the initials A.M.) at series of lectures on chemistry, 1859-1862, by Frederick Penny, Chair of Chemistry at Anderson's University, Glasgow.

Hugh Lang papers

• GB 249 T-LA
• Collection
• 1860-1862

Incoming letters to Dr Lang, mainly relating to the management of his estates in the West Indies; letters from family and friends such as the Eckford family; financial accounts.

Lang, Hugh, 1779-1864, plantation owner

Gem Line shipping company records

• GB 249 T-GEM
• Collection
• 1861-1982

Partnership agreements; memorandum and articles of association; directors’ reports and accounts; correspondence and papers relating to Thor Thoresen Linje; correspondence and papers relating to merger with Powell Duffryn; financial records; steame...

William Robertson, shipowners

University of Strathclyde Department of Physics records

• GB 249 OF/1
• Collection
• 1862-2003

Records relating to the teaching of physics at the University of Strathclyde and the Royal College of Science and Technology, the Royal Technical College, the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College and Anderson's College (the antecede...

University of Strathclyde | Department of Physics

Class ticket and student certificate of James Fell

• GB 249 OJF/8/1
• Collection
• 1862 - 1864

Chemistry class ticket and certificate.

Fell, James Walter, fl. 1862-1864, student at Anderson's University, Glasgow

Barony Church, Glasgow records

• GB 249 T-MIN/18
• Collection
• 1863 - 2010

Church magazines; plans; photographs; report and year book; pulpit bible; histories of the church; tercentenary grand bazaar programme and medal; orders of service; information on stained glass windows.

Barony Church, Glasgow

George Forbes papers

• GB 249 OM/201
• Collection
• 1864 - 1987

Material by and about George Forbes including publications and reports by Forbes; maps belonging to Forbes; testimonials for Forbes; recollections of Forbes by Jen Stockdale; articles on Forbes' carbon brushes; biographical information; bibli...

Forbes, George, 1849-1936, engineer and astronomer

James Blyth papers

• GB 249 OM/17
• Collection
• 1868 - 1989

Material by and about James Blyth including testimonials; patents; papers; drawing; obituaries and biographical information; correspondence.

Blyth, James, 1838-1906, physicist

Papers relating to Andrew Cunningham

• GB 249 OJF/8/3
• Collection
• 1868 , 1953

Student certificate in book-keeping by double entry and accompanying letter with biographical details.

Cunningham, Andrew, fl. 1851-1868, student at Glasgow Mechanics' Institution

Young Chair of Technical Chemistry records

• GB 249 ODA
• Collection
• 1869-1888

Minute book; financial records; correspondence and papers relating to the establishment of the chair.

Young Chair of Technical Chemistry, Glasgow

University of Strathclyde Library records

• GB 249 OF/32
• Collection
• c. 1870 - 2004

Records relating to library services at the University of Strathclyde and its predecessors, the Royal College of Science and Technology, the Royal Technical College, the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College and the Glasgow and West of Sc...

University of Strathclyde | Library

Letter from Alexander Herschel on the performance of his students in government examinations

• GB 249 OM/72/1
• Item
• 6 October 1871

Letter from Herschel, 16 Saville Row, Newcastle on Tyne, to William Combe, 22 Dundas Street, Glasgow. On the performance of his students in 'Sound and Light', and Applied Mechanics in the government examinations.

Herschel, Alexander Stewart, 1836-1907, astronomer