Archives Catalogue

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder D35
Item
[1800?]

Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie in which he makes observations about wheel carriage design, in particular the relationship between wheels and axles and the size of both required by different vehicles.

Vol. 4th, Scientific Institution, London, 1811

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder E15
Item
1811

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes about lectures held at the (25 April 1811- 13 August 1811) about experiments in electricity, chemical apparatus, and electrochemistry.

Vol. 3, Scientific Institution, 1810

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder E14
Item
1810 - 1811

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes about Singer's lecture series (21 June 1810 - 22 April 1811) on topics in electrochemistry.

Vol. 2, Scientific Institution, 1810

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder E13
Item
1810

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes about Singer's lectures (January 12 - June 18, 1810) on topics in chemistry, including experiments, chemical properties of air and electricity.

Vol. 1, Scientific Institution, 1809

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder E12
Item
1909

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes on lectures by Mr Singer (5 - 29 June 1809).

Royal Institution notes, 20 Dec 1809

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder E8
Item
1809 - 1810

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing his notes on lectures at the Royal Institution (December 20, 1809-April 19, 1810), which include lectures given by Dalton.

Royal Institution notes, 1810

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder E10
Item
April 21, 1810 - May 26, 1811

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes about lectures at the Royal Institution (April 21, 1810 - May 26, 1811). Dinwiddie notes that he did not attend the first two lectures.

Projectiles

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder D33
Item
[ca. 1800?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a two-part notebook kept by James Dinwiddie in which he makes observations about projectiles, their trajectory motion, acceleration and the opposing force of gravity.

Optics

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder D31
Item
[ca. 1800?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie in which he wrote his observations and notes about experiments about optics.

Notes regarding the British North America Act and Newfoundland's admission to Canada

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 27
Item

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a notebook with typed and handwritten notes regarding the BNA and Newfoundland. Some notes contain outdated and racist language in describing Indigenous peoples.

Notes regarding celestial navigation

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder D36
Item
[after 1780]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie in which he wrote his observations and calculations about celestial navigation.

Notes on lectures at the Royal Institution, 1809

MS-2-726, Box 19, Folder J2
Item
1809

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie from March 23 - December 21, 1809 containing his notes on lectures at the Royal Institution on topics including electro-chemistry, astronomical systems, botanical taxonomies.

Notes on lectures at the Royal Institution

MS-2-726, Box 19, Folder J1
Item
1808 - 1809

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie from December 22, 1808 - March 11, 1809 containing his notes on lectures at the Royal Institution on topics including orbits of the sun and moon, the state of science prior to Isaac Newton, and chemical attraction.

Notes on H. Davy's lectures, Royal Institution, 17 Dec 1808

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder E6
Item
1808 - 1809

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes about Humphrey Davy's lectures (17 December 1808 - 3 June 1809) at the Royal Institution on topics in chemistry, including the decomposition of acids and alkalis by electricity, metals and potassium.

Notes on early experiments with electricity

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder F2
Item
1777

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook containing descriptions of experiments and notes related to electricity and electrical phenomena.

Notes on early experiments with air and balloons

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder F3
Item
[177-?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook containing Dinwiddie's notes about his experiments with air and balloons.

Notes on Davy's lectures, Royal Inst., 9 Feb 1811

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder E11
Item
1811

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes about Humphrey Davy's lectures (8 February 1911 - 3 April 1811) at the Royal Institution on topics in chemistry, including voltaic electricity, uses of potassium and sodium, and oxygen.

Notes on Davy's lectures on chem. & philosophy

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder E9
Item
1810 - 1811

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes about Humphrey Davy's lectures (19 December 1810 - 23 February 1811) at the Royal Institution on topics in chemistry and philosophy.

Notes on Davy's lectures at the Royal Institution, 18 Dec 1809

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder E7
Item
1809 - 1811

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes about Humphrey Davy's lectures (18 December 1809 - 26 January 1811) at the Royal Institution on topics in chemistry, including electro-chemistry, phosphates, sulphur, and salts.

Notes about planetary orbits

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder E1
Item
1776

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook dated January 2, 1776 containing Dinwiddie's observations on planetary motion, including the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the moon.

Notebook of Samuel J. Holland

MS-2-33, SF Box 16, Folder 1
Item
1747-1748

Item is a 150-page notebook that Samuel J. Holland used in 1747 when he was serving as an artillery officer in the Dutch army. The notebook is bound in vellum and contains tables, memoranda, mathematical calculations, diagrams, recipes for making gun powder, and assorted notes.

Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801

Notebook kept by Roscoe Fillmore during a visit to Kuzbas Autonomous Industrial Colony in Russia

MS-10-1, Box 2, Folder 11
Item
1923

Part of Roscoe Alfred Fillmore fonds

Item is a notebook containing expenditures, addresses, Russian vocabulary lists and reminder notes.

Notebook beginning January 5, 1776

MS-2-726, Box 4, Folder B1
Item
1776

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie between January 5 - February 10, 1776, containing notes, diagrams and equations.

Notebook beginning 12 February 1776

MS-2-726, Box 4, Folder B2
Item
1776

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a journal kept by James Dinwiddie between February 12 - March 1, 1776 containing notes, diagrams and equations.

Magnetism and electricity

MS-2-726, Box 15, Folder D28
Item
1776

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie containing observations about magnetism and electricity, including diagrams related to and queries.

Madras

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder E5
Item
[ca. 1796]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook kept by Dinwiddie during his time in Madras (now Chennai), India, in which he wrote about mining saltpetre and diamonds.

Longitude by the chronometer and moon : journal through China

MS-2-726, Box 15, Folder D21
Item
1793-1794

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook containing James Dinwiddie's observations about Chinese culture and notes regarding experiments he conducted with a chronometer.

Logarithms

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder E20
Item
[1800?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook containing notes about logarithms, addition and subtraction, and example calculations.

James Dinwiddie's notebook

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder F1
Item
1774 - 1841

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a journal containing lists of materials, expenses and books, and well as miscellaneous notes and diary entries, including copies made by W.J. Proudfoot in 1841 of earlier pencilled notes by Dinwiddie, and a loose letter from Mr Ashton requesting the loan of a book.

Irrigwe, Jere, Buji, Ganawari, Amo : [research notebook]

MS-2-27, Box 6, Folder 2
Item
1973

Part of James H. Morrison fonds

Item consists of James H. Morrison's handwritten research notes, related to his fieldwork researching several peoples of the Jos Plateau, central Nigeria, in early 1973. Item contains research notes related to the Irrigwe (pages 1-70), Jere (pages 75-143), Buji (pages 149-221), Garawani (pages 225-287), and Amo (pages 295-315) peoples, and includes notes related the origins of each group, chief lists, cultural and sociological specifics, &c. This notebook is the compilation of field work research notebooks completed by James H. Morrison in 1973.

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, summer 1947 and summer 1948

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 5
Item
1947-1948

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, summer 1945 and summer 1946

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 4
Item
1945-1946

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, summer 1943 and summer 1944

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 3
Item
1943-1944

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

File contains a notebook with details of plant collecting trips in and around Halifax by Hugh Bell and other members of the Biology Department at Dalhousie University.

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, 1954-1956

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 8
Item
1954-1956

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, 1952, 1953 and 1954

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 7
Item
1952-1954

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, 1949, 1950 and 1951

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 6
Item
1949-1951

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, 1932-1934

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 2
Item
1932-1934

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

File contains a notebook with details of plant collecting trips in and around Halifax by Hugh Bell and other members of the Biology Department at Dalhousie University.

Hope McPhee's notebook from the first Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-9, SF Box 5, Folder 1
Item
1978

Item is a 56-page Hilroy scribbler with an illustration of a camp site and "CAMP SITE" written on the cover. The notebook contains Hope McPhee's recollections of meeting Roscoe Fillmore and stories about his life and career as a horticulturalist and political activist. Notes are written in pencil.

McPhee, Hope

G.V. Douglas, book no. 1

MS-2-20, SF Box 14, Folder 3, Item 1
Item
1929

Part of George Vibert Douglas fonds

Item is a notebook containing coordinates, calculations and notes regarding mineral sources and prospect claims in Western Australia. Inscribed on the first pages is "R.C.B.C. 1."

Galvanism

MS-2-726, Box 15, Folder D22
Item
1801

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie in Calcutta, in which he recorded his observations and experiments in galvanism and other electrical phenomena.

Galvanic experiments

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder D34
Item
[ca. 1800?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie in which he describes a number of galvanic experiments.

Extracts from the 68 volume of the Philosophical Transactions for the year 1778

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder E2
Item
1780

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is notebook dated September 17, 1780, containing extracts from volume 68 of Philosophical Transactions.

Extracts

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder D30
Item
1796

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie during his time in Calcutta in which he summarizes reports on a range of topics, including observations on "Dr. Black's Analysis of the Iceland waters" and "Extract from the report of the Committee for improving the manufacture of powder at Bombay."

Essay on pneumatics

MS-2-726, Box 15, Folder D27
Item
[ca.1800?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie in which he writes about pneumatics, "which contain in two parts the history or theory of mind and spirit."

E.C. Nicholson's recipe book

MS-2-668, SF Box 98, Folder 14, Item 1
Item
1933

Part of Lola Henry fonds

Item is the handwritten recipe book of E.C. Nicholson

Credo Chinesa

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder E17
Item
[after 1792]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook in which James Dinwiddie recorded his observations (in 75 numbered paragraphs) about China, including its geography, animal life, and customs.

Clays of Antigonish

MS-2-20, SF Box 14, Folder 3, Item 2
Item
1943

Part of George Vibert Douglas fonds

Item is a notebook that contains Douglas's handwritten draft of his preliminary report on clays of Antigonosh, which includes a draft cover letter to Dr. A.R. Cameron, Minister of Mines.