University of Strathclyde Archives

Minutes

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1833 - 1861

Parte deAtkinson's Institution records

Cash book

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1833 - 1852

Parte deAtkinson's Institution records

Diary of John Anderson's stay at Dumbarton Castle conducting artillery experiments

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June - October 1782

Parte deJohn Anderson papers

Includes mention of visits and letters received and made and books read, as well as the results of his experiments.

Catalogue of curiosities collected by Robert Woodrow

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1760

Parte deJohn 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.

Woodrow, Robert, 1679-1734, ecclesiastical historian

Draft of protest by John Anderson, Joseph Black and Thomas Hamilton

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c 1755 - 1757

Parte deJohn Anderson papers

Draft of protest by John Anderson, Joseph Black and Thomas Hamilton over the payment of 50 merks to Robert Dick, former Professor of Natural Philosophy, and James Mair from the crop of 1754.

On the verso is a draft class ticket by John Anderson to James Caldwell for the latter's work in the Hebrew class.

The merk was a unit of Scots currency.

First annual report

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1823 - 1824

Parte deCollege of Science and Arts records

Photocopy from Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, vol. 1, 22 May 1824.

Letter patent to James Young of Newton le Willows for certain improvements in the manufacture of ammonia and the salts of ammonia and all apparatus for combining ammonia, carbonic acid and other gases with liquids

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11 November 1841

Parte deJames 'Paraffin' Young papers

Patent document for 15 years

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31 January 1846 (registered 10 April 1846)

Parte deJames 'Paraffin' Young papers

Brief affidavits of John Greenwood, Thomas Lightfoot, John Crawshaw and James Hindle

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10 November 1849

Parte deJames 'Paraffin' Young papers

Manuscript case report by Dr John Stenhouse

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September 1860

Parte deJames 'Paraffin' Young papers

Signed receipt from the Anti-Corn Law League to James Young for £1 membership fee

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2 September 1844

Parte deJames 'Paraffin' Young papers

Scrapbook

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c 1857 - 1869

Parte deJames 'Paraffin' Young papers

Newspaper cuttings reporting miscellaneous current events, legal cases in the oil industry, news of Dr Livingstone, oil manufacture and trade, explosive coal oils and paraffin lamps, Young’s paraffin oil patent, The Royal Institution and The International Exhibition in 1862.

Letter to James Young’s cousin, Mary Young