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Includes a transcript of the 'last Will of Professor [John] Anderson'.

Includes notes on expenditure, 1807-1809.

With transcript.

Endorsed on spine: MSS 46

Contains: catalogue of John Anderson's Library (ff.1-61); catalogue of fossils arranged according to the tables of Mr. Babington, Lecturer in Chemistry, London (ff.67-103); catalogue of apparatus, furniture etc belonging to Anderson's Institution, June 1799 (ff.112-131).

There are several blank folios and pencil annotations. Folios 132-134 contain several endorsements confirming the transfer of these items to the managers of Anderson's Institution, 1799-1806, and notes by James Smith, of Jordanhill, 1831, including additional donations of books.

'Ext[ract] Reg[istrable] Disposition by the Magistrates and Council of Glasgow to The Andersonian University or Institution. Dated 22nd, Registered 26th September 1831'. Concerning the payment of feu duty and the tenement formerly occupied by the Public Grammar School house of Glasgow.

Contains notes of work carried out on Andersonian building, 1839-1843, and pencil draft of report on mechanics' class, 1839/1840.

'Second Extract Reg[istrable] Feu Contract between The Magistrates and Council of Glasgow and The Trustees of the Andersonian University or Institution. 1839'. Concerning the Old Grammar School of Glasgow and ground adjoining.

Possibly to Walter Crum.

With transcript.

Includes list of tickets issued for a conversational meeting of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, c 1840; cost of gas consumption, 1840s; note of an experiment on photogenic paper.

Bears bookplate of Professor John Anderson. Volume contains a few other notes.

Index of accounts at front of volume.