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Lecture Notes

This collection contains notes for lectures both given and attended by James Dinwiddie. The topics range from optics to trigonometry to natural history to agriculture. The notes were recorded between 1783 and 1811.

Curvature of the Earth; Roman History; Aquaducts

These notes written by James Dinwiddie cover several topics including aquaducts, astronomy, and Roman history. In the astronomy notes, Dinwiddie mentions the seasons, the nautical almanac, the equinoxes, and the sun's gravity. This file consists of thirteen pages of notes.

Journals

James Dinwiddie's personal journals cover 1776 to 1812, covering the time he spent in China with the British expedition as well as his subsequent years in Calcutta and return to England and Ireland. In the journals, Dinwiddie records daily events such as with whom he dined or visited, where he travelled, and any lectures he gave or attended.

Scientific Journals

James Dinwiddie's scientific journals were written between 1776 and 1805. The collection includes several volumes of "Queries and Hints", a journal that provides questions and answers to various topics in science. Dinwiddie also included volumes of "Queries and Hints" in music and fermentation. Individual journals exist for other topics including astronomy, magnetism and electricity, and optics.

Royal Institution

This sous-fond contains a series of documents related to the Royal Institution of Great Britain including notices of meetings, meeting minutes, and ballot lists as well as a royal act increasing the powers of the institution. The papers include two bound journals of Dinwiddie's notes on lectures given at the institution on topics ranging from astronomy, chemistry, and biology.
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INDICES:::Dumfries ; education ; High School ; Edinburgh ; philosophical ; experiments
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