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James Young’s signed ticket for the Royal Institution’s weekly evening meeting.

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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

Anderson University Class admission ticketsT-YOU/7/1

Glasgow Mechanics Institution, class admission ticketT-YOU/7/2

British Association for the Advancement of Science admission ticketsT-YOU/7/3

Testimonial with transcript from the Mechanics Class, Anderson’s University, by Committee President James Reid, on James Young’s ability as Thomas Graham’s assistantT-YOU/7/4

Royal Institution admission ticketT-YOU/7/5

Manchester Mechanics Institution Admission TicketsT-YOU/7/6

Invitation for the first anniversary dinner of the Watt and Dalton Club, Spread Eagle Hotel, Hanging DitchT-YOU/7/7

Mechanics Magazine: Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette No. 1349 Vol. L, pp. 554-576T-YOU/7/8

‘Extracts from Chemical Works in which Paraffin is noticed’ and ‘Further extracts on Paraffin’T-YOU/7/9

Review of ‘Reports on the geological relations, chemical analysis and microscopic examination of the coal of the Albert Coal Mining Company situated in Hillsboro, Albert County, New Brunswick’ by Charles T. JacksonT-YOU/7/10

Testimonials, medical, chemical and mechanical, of the properties of Young’s Patent Mineral Oil by James HurstT-YOU/7/11

Annual Report of the president and directors of the Breckenridge Coal and Oil CompanyT-YOU/7/12

Laws of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, as revisedT-YOU/7/13

Royal Institution of Great Britain, report of a lecture by Robert Angus Smith on the estimation of the organic matter of the airT-YOU/7/14

Report of the Committee appointed by the creditors of the North American Kerosene Gas- Light CompanyT-YOU/7/15

National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, associate’s ticket for seventh annual meeting, EdinburghT-YOU/7/16

Extract from the Journal of the Chemical Society, entitled ‘On the vapour-Tension of Formate of Ethyl and the Acetate of Methyl’ by William DittmarT-YOU/7/17

Manuscript list of applications for chair of medical jurisprudence and chair of natural philosophy at Anderson’s UniversityT-YOU/7/18

The Bailie No. 60T-YOU/7/19

Galley proof of unidentified work on production of paraffin, oils, pyroligneous acid and amonia from peatT-YOU/7/20

Sample of coal from Picton, received from Mr PooleT-YOU/7/21

Manuscript inventory or catalogue of casts of medals and sealsT-YOU/7/22

Analytical tables for the use of students in practical chemistry by Murray ThomsonT-YOU/7/23

Manuscript note entitled 'Substances under review this week'T-YOU/7/24

Printed index page from ‘Errata in The Flashing Point of Petroleum’ by Dr Lobry De BruynT-YOU/7/25

Photograph of R.A. Smith in an envelope addressed to Dr Livingstone, AfricaT-YOU/7/26

Wallet made out of card with information on dyesT-YOU/7/29

Recipe Book belonging to a ‘Dr Young’ with manuscript notes on recipes and ingredients for treatmentsT-YOU/7/28

Proposals for the establishment of a society for the discovery and cultivation of superior ability, chiefly among lower ranks of the community by John StenhouseT-YOU/7/27

Admission ticket to a French classT-YOU/7/30

Advertisement for paraffin oil patent by Paraffin Light CompanyT-YOU/7/31

Letter from Lyon Playfair, Isle of Wight, to Mrs Walker regarding the circumstances of James Young’s manufacture of the first paraffin candlesT-YOU/7/32

Manuscript report on the Petroleum Bill 1883 with evidenceT-YOU/7/33

Photographs of an unidentified 19th century Italian painting and Limefield House, West CalderT-YOU/7/34

Manuscript notes by Miss Thom in connection with James Young and David Livingstone in relation to the naming of streets in AddiewellT-YOU/7/35

Supporting material relating to James YoungT-YOU/8