Bond for £30 by John Anderson to the Fund for the Provision of the Widows and Children of Ministers
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- 7 July 1755
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Bond for £30 by John Anderson to the Fund for the Provision of the Widows and Children of Ministers
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Burgess ticket admitting John Anderson as burgess and gild brother of Edinburgh
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MS letter, with transcript. On Anderson's hopes of the Chair of Latin or Hebrew at Glasgow College - he felt that he was "jockied out" and was instead elected Professor of Oriental Languages - his visit to France and the Catholic converts he has met there.
Letter from John Anderson at Glasgow to Gilbert Lang at Lossitt, to the care of Mrs Lang at Greenock
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MS letter, with transcript; covering MS letter with transcript and MS sheet.
Conveys the thanks of the Considerable Club for sending Lang's essay on miracles. Lists members of the Club and mentions that Anderson's sister is being married the next day.
Covering letter from Thomas Lang [grandson of the Reverend Gilbert Lang] at Kilmarnock to James A. Anderson of Carlung [1785-1863, nephew of John Anderson], 24 May 1853, enclosing this and Anderson's 1755 letter to Gilbert Lang, and a sample page from Lang's sermon book, to explain the reference to the size of his handwriting.
Letter from Moses Pinto to John Anderson
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MS letter in Hebrew, with translation. Pinto greets his "master and teacher, learned in the Torah. Rabbi Anderson" and promises to do service both by day and night". Translation by Professor Noah Morris, 1938.
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Discourses read to the Literary Society in Glasgow College.
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Refers to experiments in magnetism.
Experiments upon the mensuration of heights by the barometer
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Describes experiments carried out at various locations in Scotland. Cover title: Of the barometer and barometrical mensurations.
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Discourse read to the Literary Society in Glasgow College, November 1780. Includes rainfall records for Glasgow, 1761-1779, and records for Britain, Europe and North America, 1695-1779.
Blank charts for recording barometer readings
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Institutes of physics, volume 1
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Manuscript of part of volume 1. This work was based on Anderson's annual course of lectures and experiments at the University of Glasgow. The first edition was published in 1786. MS notes in another hand at the rear of the volume, c1804, with lists of students at Anderson's Institution.
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Of the moisture in houses that are situated on prominent rocks
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Describes experiments made at Dumbarton Castle, and cites evidence from Edinburgh and Stirling Castles and other locations. Read to the Literary Society of Glasgow College, 8 November 1782. With jottings on reading over Mr Anderson's discourse, by [Professor?] Wilson.
A classification of the genera and species of animals
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