Papers of James Cunningham (fl 1781)

Lectures, notes and extracts on botany, farming and husbandry, compiled by James Cunningham, c 1781.

The collection includes lectures on botany delivered by Dr John Hope (1725 - 1786), Professor of Botany, University of Edinburgh, from 9 May 1774, and transcribed by James Cunningham, May 1781 (p 1 - 134), with additional notes on plants and general view of botany from Dr Hope's lectures (p 323 - 329); an abstract of Dr Hope's lectures (p 330 - 332); and alphabetical list of the vegetables and experiments on them and mentioned in Dr Hope's lectures (p 333 - 340).

Further contents include directions for planting forest trees by Murdoch Middleton - who had been employed by many Noblemen and Gentlemen to plant their trees and take care of them when planted, n.d.(p 135 - 138); lectures on Vegetation and Agriculture by William Cullen (1710-1790), physician, Edinburgh, including lecture Of Marles, from a manuscript of Dr Cullen , n.d. (p 217 - 244); and A Treatise on the Norfolk husbandry, drawn for the use of the Earl of Hopton and transmitted to his Lordship from Norfolk, Anno 1760 - found among my Father's papers (249 - 255).

Pages 141 - 216 and 257 - 322 are missing from the volume.

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Notes of Dr William Cullen's (1710 - 1790) clinical lectures, delivered at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, 1769 - 1770 (GB 231 MS 0129/1). These lecture notes were taken by George French, whilst studying medicine in Edinburgh, and contain examples of medical cases treated by Dr Cullen at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, indexed by patient name and disease.

Notes of Dr William Cullen's (1710 - 1790) Chemistry lectures, [? Edinburgh, 1856 - 1857, taken by William Fordyce] (GB 231 MS 0469).

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