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Newscutting of an article on Scottish Shale Oil Industry mentioning James Young in Glasgow Evening Citizen 1973.

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James 'Paraffin' Young papersT-YOU

Diaries and notebooksT-YOU/1

CorrespondenceT-YOU/2

Patents and legal casesT-YOU/3

Financial papersT-YOU/4

Technical and scientific notes, including articles and lecture notesT-YOU/5

Newspaper cuttingsT-YOU/6

MiscellaneousT-YOU/7

Supporting material relating to James YoungT-YOU/8

Letter to James Young’s cousin, Mary YoungT-YOU/8/1

Letter to Young’s mother from London giving an account of his decision to leave Thomas GrahamT-YOU/8/2

‘Dear Sir - I a’maist ca’ed ye “Jamie”’T-YOU/8/3

Insurance policy of James Young with the Scottish Widow’s Fund and Life Assurance SocietyT-YOU/8/5

Letter to James Young from J.C. Tennant referring to stock exchange dealingsT-YOU/8/6

Riddings cash bookT-YOU/8/7

Letters from David Livingstone’s trustee James YoungT-YOU/8/8

Letter to David Livingstone from James YoungT-YOU/8/9

Letter to James Young from Peter Shaw, General Manager of Paraffin Light CompanyT-YOU/8/10

Letter from James Young to his daughter, Mary AnnT-YOU/8/12

Minute extracts of the meetings of the managers of Anderson’s UniversityT-YOU/8/13

Diary of Mediterranean voyage of the yacht ‘Nyanza’T-YOU/8/14

“To Iceland in a yacht” by Robert Angus SmithT-YOU/8/15

"A visit to St Kilda in 1873" by Robert Angus SmithT-YOU/8/16

Will of James Young of Kelly & Durris and extract founding the Young Chair of Technical ChemistryT-YOU/8/17

Typed extracts from the minutes of the governors and committees of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College and extract from the will of James Young of Kelly and DurrisT-YOU/8/18

Extract of settlement by James Young (junior)T-YOU/8/19

Biographical notes for James YoungT-YOU/8/20

'Kelly’ in Millar, AH Castles and mansions of Renfrewshire and ButeshireT-YOU/8/23

“The deadly 73 degrees: a business tragedy in two hemispheres” and review of the pamphlet in the Edinburgh Evening DispatchT-YOU/8/24

Extract of Trust Disposition and settlement by Thomas Graham YoungT-YOU/8/25

Typed extracts from the minutes of the governors and committees of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College and the Trust and Disposition and Settlement by Thomas Graham YoungT-YOU/8/21

‘Bibliotheca Chemica’ by John FergusonT-YOU/8/26

Extract of decree in petition of the Royal Technical College, GlasgowT-YOU/8/28

The A.P.O.C [Anglo-Persian Oil Company] Magazine and The NAFT A.P.O.C. MagazineT-YOU/8/29

The Scottish Shale industry filmT-YOU/8/30

Durris, in The Deeside Field by D. Blyth McKelvieT-YOU/8/31

A brief description of the operations of the Scottish Shale Oil IndustryT-YOU/8/32

'Paraffin Young pioneer of oil' filmT-YOU/8/33

'Alchemy in Scotland' by John ReedT-YOU/8/34

'Dr James Young a brief biography' by H.R.J. ConacherT-YOU/8/35

'Seventy-five years of oil shale mining' by J.B. Sneddon, W. Caldwell, J. SteinT-YOU/8/36

James Young Memorial Lecture by E.M. Bailey and articles published in the Institute of Petroleum ReviewT-YOU/8/37

'A hundred years in the life of a great industry: Shale' by G.H. SmithT-YOU/8/38

Notes compiled by the librarian of the London College for Civil EngineersT-YOU/8/39

Shell BP News, Number 126T-YOU/8/40

BP MagazineT-YOU/8/41

'W.H.Perkin and the Young chair of Technical Chemistry in the Royal College of Science and Technology Glasgow" by R. BrightmanT-YOU/8/42

'Paraffin Young: The First Regular Oil Man' by David MurrayT-YOU/8/44

Scotland’s Oil: How it all began in ScotlandT-YOU/8/45

Catalogue of James Young’s papers prepared by John Butt with some transcriptsT-YOU/8/46

Extracts from the Register of Births and Deaths for Thomas Graham YoungT-YOU/8/47

Notes on mezzotint portrait of James Young by unknown artist by P.D. RitchieT-YOU/8/48

Genealogical tree for James Young by W. Muir RobertsonT-YOU/8/49

Early Teachers and Teaching of Chemical EngineeringT-YOU/8/50

Newspaper cuttings ‘Paraffin Young centenary’ and ‘Young: father of the oil industry’T-YOU/8/52

Programme for the commemoration of the centenary of the Young Chair of Chemical TechnologyT-YOU/8/53

Bibliotheca ChemicaT-YOU/8/54

Inscription on bust and plaque on West wall of James Young laboratory, Graham BuildingT-YOU/8/55

Centenary lecture at Strathclyde: The Oil industry’s debt to Dr. James YoungT-YOU/8/56

Memorandum relating to paintings by Salvator Rosa from the collection of James YoungT-YOU/8/57

'What the oil industry owes to Dr James Young' by F.M. CookT-YOU/8/58

Newspaper article ‘Claim jumpers’ about the Livingstone Development Corporation stand at the Offshore Exhibition at AberdeenT-YOU/8/60

As Oil-starved Americans turn to shale...Scots show the wayT-YOU/8/61

'The Life and Times of Paraffin Young' by John GoldblattT-YOU/8/62

'North Sea Oil completes a historic circle' newscutting from Glasgow HeraldT-YOU/8/63

'Oil the Early Days' cuttings from 1974 ‘Motor’ magazineT-YOU/8/64

Oil for the lamps of NorwayT-YOU/8/65

'The remarkable Mr Young' article and correspondence by Joseph A. CallananT-YOU/8/66

Article on the setting up of the Young Trust by James YoungT-YOU/8/67