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Application (including testimonials) by Reginald Berry for the chair of chemistry and agricultural chemistry at the West of Scotland Agricultural College, Glasgow.

Handwritten lecture notes for Antonia Bunch's first-year undergraduate class in Information Studies, taught within the Department of Librarianship at the University of Strathclyde.
Topics covered in the notes include: information; communication; the development and history of libraries; and the press, publishing and the book trade. The folder also includes a typed list of prescribed essay subjects for Term 1, several information sheets from the British Museum's Room of Writing, newspaper cuttings, book reviews and some photocopied chapters from books, all of which were presumably used to inform the lectures.
The notes were originally contained in an A4 ring binder labelled 'From the Clay Tablet to the Microchip'.

Maps of Antarctica.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

Copy belonged to Agnes Mackenzie, a student at the Glasgow Provincial Training College. Her annotations are in the margin.

A.M. Williams was Rector of the Church of Scotland College and later joint Rector of the Glasgow Provincial Training College.

Correspondence; class ticket; subscriptions by students for Ure's benefit; prospectus of lectures; copies of Ure's published papers; licence from Andrew Ure to Patrick Cruikshank to use equipment for evaporating syrups and juices on St Vincent; details of patents by Ure; notice regarding his appointment at Belfast Academical Institution; items on his experiments with galvanism; articles about his work; biographical information and obituaries.

Letter of congratulations to McNair from lecturer James Smith 1947; certificates 1939-1958; McNair's business card.

Prize book awarded to McCance's father; documents on the Royal College/Glasgow University discussions and the progress to university status; photographs, including official openings of Chesters House, Bearsden and Students' Union Building, and of royal visits by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and HRH Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon; obituaries and biographical information.

Papers relating to Andrew Jardine's studies at the Royal Technical College, his participation in the Evening Students' Representative Council, his membership of the Former Students' Association and his recollections of the origins of the Workshop Organization and Management evening class. Also memorabilia relating to his attendance at Allan Glen's School and his role as Chairman of the Allan Glen's Old Boys Club (London).

Reprints of articles by Fergus; letter from Fergus to H.F. Stockdale; testimonials for Fergus.

Article from The College Courant: the journal of the Glasgow University Graduates Association, Vol. 26, No. 52, Whitsun 1974.

Volume also contains article on William MacKenzie, Professor of Anatomy at Anderson's Institution 1819-1828, by George P. Richardson, pp 26-30.

Records relating to governance; constitutional and legal records; annual reports; calendars; class and lecture advertisements, programmes and syllabuses; class admission tickets; subscription lists; financial records; draft contract relating to property in John Street; student records; library and museum records; lectures.

Calendars; report and fundraising appeal for new buildings; drawings of new building; advertisement for classes; brochure for dinner.

Andersonian University class tickets:

• 1-4: Anatomy, 1832-1833, 1833-1834, 1834-1835, 1835
• 5-6: Chemistry, 1832-1833, 1834-1835
• 7-9: Practical Anatomy, 1833-1834, 1834-1835, 1835
• 10: Practical Chemistry, 1834-1835
• 11-13: Practice of Physic, 1833-1834, 1834-1835, 1835
• 14-16: Surgery, 1832-1833, 1833-1834, 1834-1835
• 17-19: Theory of Medicine, 1833-1834, 1834-1835, 1835

Notices of meetings and lectures, 1934-1958; notice of annual dinner, 1959; letter relating to history of Society, 1938; reminiscences about Society in 'Annals of the Andersonain Naturalists' Society', 1936; William Rennie, 'Smatterings: a brief outline of the early struggles of the Glasgow geologists to establish themselves within the city, their meeting places and notes thereon', 1946; poster advertising exhibition to mark centenary of Society, 1985.

Minute book, 1961-1976; membership cards; membership receipt.