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MS-2-726, Box 10, Folder B75
Item
1808

Item is a journal kept by James Dinwiddie from February 13 - August 15, 1808, in which he records events in London, Dumfries and Edinburgh.

Journal, 1810, 22 November, London

MS-2-726, Box 10, Folder B81
Item
1810 - 1811

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a journal kept by James Dinwiddie from November 22, 1810 - May 22, 1811.

Vol 1 : queries and hints in 20 vols.

MS-2-726, Box 13, Folder D1
Item
1779-1780

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is the first volume of a journal created by James Dinwiddie while he was in Ireland and Northern Ireland in 1779-1780. This volume contains scientific queries numbered 1-123 with additional notes and observations in the end pages.

Vol. 5 [Queries and Hints]

MS-2-726, Box 13, Folder D5
Item
1786

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 5 of "Queries and Hints," with queries numbered 728-794, created by James Dinwiddie in November 1786.

Queries and hints, vol. 9

MS-2-726, Box 13, Folder D7
Item
1788

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 9 of "Queries and Hints," containing queries numbered 1287-1721, created by James Dinwiddie in November 1788 while in London.

Vol. 11 [Queries and Hints]

MS-2-726, Box 14, Folder D9
Item
1790

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 11 James Dinwiddie's "Queries and Hints," containing queries numbered 1896-1972 and headings including manufacturers, metallurgy and mechanics.

Queries and hints, vol. 15

MS-2-726, Box 14, Folder D13
Item
1792

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 15 of James Dinwiddie's "Queries and Hints," which contains queries numbered 2270-2251 and subject headings including metallurgy, experiments, and chemistry.

Queries and hints, vol. 3 new series or 21st old / J. Dinwiddie, LLD

MS-2-726, Box 14, Folder D17
Item
1797

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 3 of the "new series" (or volume 21 of the "old series") of James Dinwiddie's "Queries and Hints," which contains queries numbered 171-471 and was written in Calcutta.

Vision

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder E19
File
1780

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

File contains two notebooks containing notes about vision, including descriptions about the structure of the eye as well as the diffraction and refraction of light.

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.

Astronomy

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder D32
Item
[ca. 1800?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie in which he made observations about astronomy, including the solar system, sunspots, comets, and the moon.

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."

Antitheses, no. 1

MS-2-726, Box 15, Folder D23
Item
[1800?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item contains a manuscript on the subject of forgiveness and the nature of man, traitors and political freedoms.

An essay to discover and determine the true order of the battle of the Roman Legions ...

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder G1
Item
[1780?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a manuscript by James Dinwiddie, which includes a table of contents (12 chapters) and an appendix.

Description of a planetarium, or astronomical machine : which exhibits the most remarkable phaenomena, motions, and revolutions of the universe

MS-2-726, Box 18, Folder H1
Item
1791

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a volume published in London in 1791.

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.

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.

Act for enlarging the powers granted by His Majesty to the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...

MS-2-726, Box 19, Folder J4
Item
1810

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a copy of an act issued in 1810 enlarging the powers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, allowing named proprietors to purchase a library and meeting house for the institution and outlining requirements for elections.

A letter from Victor Thibault to James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 3
File
February 27, 1794

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Thibault ; lamps ; MacKintosh ; Brown ; barometers ; Bengal ; Anna ; Calcutta ; 1794

A letter from John Aiken to James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 4
File
April 16, 1779

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Murray ; Aiken ; Connell ; 1779

Two letter written by Phos Boyd to James Dinwiddie,

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 9
File
November 3 - November 20, 1790

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Byron ; McKenzie ; farm ; fortune ; Armstrong ; Anderson

A letter from Cylus Irwin to James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 10
File
February 13, 1794

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Irwin ; Dundas ; speech ; East India ; Bruce ; India ; China

Moottiah's Memorandum

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 12
File
[1800?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

A memorandum by Tevoovercaudoo Moottiah regarding the Tamil language.

Memoradum containing the outline of those Treateses which I am determined to compile for my kind patron Lord Hobart

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 13
File
September 12, 1797

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

A memorandum written by Teroovercaudoo Moottiah regarding the Cinglus.

A letter from William Spence to James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 15
File
July 16, 1796

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Barrington ; Bengal ; Spence

A letter from Charles Elliot to James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 16
File
July 15, 1772

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Elliot ; Ferguson ; lectures ; navigation ; Trigonometry ; Astronomy

Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Experimental Philosophy

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 17
File
1780

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

A syllabus of a course by James Dinwiddie.

A letter from Will McMullan to James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 21
File
April 25, 1779

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::McMullan ; lectures

A letter from Andrew Dobie to James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 22
File
April 04, 1796

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Dobie ; England ; Dumfries ; Saunders ; West Indies ; China ; Bengal

A letter written by Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 26
File
January 24, 1791

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::lectures ; ancient war ; gun powder

A letter written by James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 29
File
[1800?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::balloon ; exhibition

A letter from William Scott to James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 30
File
July 02, 1794

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Scott ; mercury ; pills ; electricity

Letter from James Proudfoot to Dr. Dinwiddie

MS-2-726, Box 1, Folder 33
Item
May 7, 1812

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a letter from James Proudfoot to James Dinwiddie regarding procuring furnishings for his rooms at Cambridge.

A letter from Wm. Kellock, with an addition by I. Anderson to James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 35
File
October 30, 1779

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Anderson ; Kellock ; Dumfries ; Ireland

A letter from F. Dobie to James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 38
File
October 06, 1813

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Dobie ; Hindu

A letter from Alex Copland to James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 1, Folder 39
File
September 27, 1790

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Copland ; Jardine

A letter from Captain Price to James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 2, Folder 2
File
February 27, 1805

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::galvanism ; Calcutta Gazette ; Price

Three financial documents

Dinwiddie, Box 2, Folder 9
File
November 29, 1794 - April 24, 1809

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

File contains three documents: one recording a transaction between John Anderson and Jannet Kellock; one between James Dinwiddie and Geo. (George) Hampton; and one regarding loans made by William Boyd to three individuals.

A letter from A. Dobie to James Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie, Box 2, Folder 10
File
December 29, 1800

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Dobie ; England ; Bengal ; Scotland ; Armstrong

One letter to James Dinwiddie from J. Barker

Dinwiddie, Box 3, Folder A5
File
[1806?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Barker ; dinner ; invitation

One letter to James Dinwiddie from George Bell

Dinwiddie, Box 3, Folder A7
File
October 09, 1783

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::George Bell ; Bill ; balance ; change ; 1783

One letter to James Dinwiddie from John Bell

Dinwiddie, Box 3, Folder A8
File
[1800?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::John Bell ; Maulda

One letter to James Dinwiddie from D Burges

Dinwiddie, Box 3, Folder A17
File
March 12, 1810

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Nicholson's Journal ; Philosophical Magazine ; book binding ; "The Man on the Moon" ; 1790 ; France ; 1786 ; India ; 1791 ; Revolution ; Republican Government ; "Memoires De L'acadmie Des Science" ; Mechanical Arts ; Patent Machines ; Royal Institute ; 1805 ; optical machines ; specticales ; eye ; camera obscura