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Notes in Latin, possibly for a lecture.

With John Anderson's bookplate.

Spine title: 'Essays M A's vol 1'. Anderson offered a prize to students at Glasgow University for outstanding essays on natural philosophy and these may have been two of the prize winning essays.

Describes experiments carried out at various locations in Scotland. Cover title: Of the barometer and barometrical mensurations.

Lectures delivered at the University of Glasgow, with notes for experiments. Includes references to Captain Cook's late voyages to the South Seas.

Contains lists of Anderson's students, with the amount of fees paid and with remarks about some students.

Lists 335 specimens. Title at rear of volume, "Catalogue of fossils which are contained in a large wooden case in Mr Anderson's house, having this inscription upon it 'Fossilia secundum systema Cronstedt'". The place of origin is mentioned and the synonyms of Wallerius, Linnaeus and Da Costa. The volume has been reused later to record weather observations 1831-1834.

Contains a detailed account of the Roman conquest of Britain, description of the Antonine Wall and the Roman artefacts excavated there. Anderson refers to the ongoing building of the Forth and Clyde Canal and the antiquities discovered by the builders at Castlecary and elsewhere along the route of the canal. Some of the essays were delivered as papers to the Literary Society of Glasgow College, possibly in 1771 and 1773.

Contains comments on David Hume's list of Scotticisms and on Samuel Johnson's Dictionary.

'Tanjore reduced from an exact Survey.'

Anon.

Scale: 1 inch to 200 yards

Engraving shows positions of English (1758) and French (1771) attacks on Tanjore.

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.

Papers relating to Professor Anderson's law plea with Glasgow College.