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A bill entitled an act to reorganise the educational endowments of Scotland.

An act to reorganise the Educational Endowments of Scotland. Attached is a list of those appointed H.M. Commissioners under the act.

Includes list of trustees of Anderson's University, 1866.

Address by Andrew Combe M.D. to the students of Anderson's University at the opening of Dr. Weir's first course of lectures on phrenology (Edinburgh: Maclachlan, Stewart; London: Simpkin, Marshall; Glasgow: D. Robertson).

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.

MS letter. Discusses his work, 'Observations on the nature of evidence' and his reading of Castruceii Bonanimicii, 'Commentarium de bello Italio'. Also tells an allegoric fable of Squire H-----'s black bitch. Anderson's correspondent is the author of an essay on miracles.

Using the pseudonym 'Moses Nosredna' Anderson corresponded with William Gardiner who had published a ridiculous paper on the moon, to deter him from further folly.

Includes calendar of contents.

Another copy of the text of Anderson's Discourses of natural and artificial systems in natural history delivered to the Literary Society in Glasgow College, 1774, without the initial details about the Society but prefaced by several comments dated 1797 and 1798 on the importance of the work and its possible publication as a memorial to Professor Anderson, who died in 1796.