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Archive Sub-collection:
MS Dep. 1984/1
Papers of the Association for Science Education and its constituent predecessors
1900-c.1970
Includes minute books, annual reports, membership lists, agenda of annual meetings, miscellaneous papers, and some financial papers.
Archive Sub-collection:
MS Dep. 1991/3
Additional papers of the Association for Science Education and its constituent predecessors
c.1915-1975
Comprises: (1) 19 minute books and attendance registers of various regional branches of the Association of Women Science Teachers, the Science Masters Association, and the Association for Science Educ...
Archive File:
MS 2067/B/4/1/199
Sep, 2002, Berlin
Feb 2001 - Sep 2002
Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled Wissenschaft und Verantwortung” (Science and Responsibility) on 6 September 2002 at the "McKinsey Bildet" Congress . (McKinse...
Archive File:
MS 1314/PU/29
Bound report “Report on Secondary Education in Liverpool”
No date [1904]
Written by Sadler on behalf of the City of Liverpool Education Committee and printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, c1904. Contains a series of illustrative maps and graphs Item 124 in Pickering 229p...
Archive File:
MS 1518
Papers from the 1967 Leeds meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
1967
Comprises the papers given by members of the Association at the 1967 conference covering all branches of science and social science, accompanied by two copies of the programme for the whole conference...
Archive File:
MS 154
Notebook belonging to Blanche Legat Leigh
c. 1880
Comprises: i) untitled or unattributed music (14 ff.); ii) newspaper cuttings of 'Scientific notes' (11 ff.); iii) verse, further music, and printed cuttings on religious or philosophical subjects (10...
Archive File:
MS 28
Proceedings, minutes, accounts, letters etc. of the local committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Leeds Meeting, 1858
1858
Contains: (1) Minute books of Section A (Mathematics), of Sub-section D (Physiology), and of the Foreigners' Reception Committee; (2) Letter book; (3) List of lodgings (2 vols); (4) Subscription books...
Archive File:
MS 29
Proceedings, minutes, accounts, letters etc. of the Local Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Leeds Meeting, 1890
1890
Contains: (1) Minute books of the Local Committee, Executive Committee, Finance Sub-committee, Hospitality and Lodgings Committee, Reception and Section Rooms Committee and Evening Entertainments Comm...
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/7/9
Press cuttings
1825-1888
Press cuttings on meterological phenomena, inland navigation and a copy of the Courier with a tax stamp. (Joseph) Alfred Novello was known to have been interested in science and invested in new infras...
Archive File:
MS 730
Three laboratory notebooks kept by Frederick Challenger, including some notes in other hands, 1931-1963
1931-1963
1. Notes by Challenger, 1931-2. 2. Notes by Patricia Fothergill, n.d.; Challenger, 1961-3. 3. Notes by Margaret Isabel Simpson, n.d.; Challenger, 1957-60.
Archive Print Item:
Holden Library Q-0 ADA
Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy : considered in its present state of improvement. Describing in a familiar and easy manner the principal phenomena of nature: and shewing that they all co-operate in displaying the goodness, wisdom, and power of God (v.1)

Adams, George (1750-1795); Jones, William (1763-1831)

1799
Vol. 5 has title: "Plates and index to Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy,..." and includes: "A catalogue of optical, mathematical, and philosophical instruments, made and sold by W. and ...
Archive Print Item:
Holden Library Q-0 ADA
Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy : considered in its present state of improvement. Describing in a familiar and easy manner the principal phenomena of nature: and shewing that they all co-operate in displaying the goodness, wisdom, and power of God (v.2)

Adams, George (1750-1795); Jones, William (1763-1831)

1799
Vol. 5 has title: "Plates and index to Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy,..." and includes: "A catalogue of optical, mathematical, and philosophical instruments, made and sold by W. and ...