| Description Of Item | These were found together in an embroidered cover with the initials MCA (Margaret Crawford Alison - Alison's wife). Includes: 'amendments to the Police and Improvement Scotland Bill' 1850; 'address by the Lord Advocate to the Leith Burghs' 7 March 1857; extract from Acland's Memoir on the Cholera in Oxford; extract from the 'Illustrated London News' 6 April 1850 on prison reform; reviews of Alison's work from 'Edinburgh Review' Volume 18; extract from Memorial to the Managers of the Royal Infirmary by James Gregory; extract from 'Journal of a Naturalist on the coasts of France Spain and Sicily' by A de Quatrefages; extract from 'Christian and Religious Antiquities of Edinburgh' by Reverend James Stothert; extract from 'Livingstone's Missionary Travels in South Africa'; extract from 'Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton' by Sir David Brewster; extract from Humboldt's 'Cosmos'; extract from 'Note of the Dialogues in Lord Brougham's Natural Theology'; extract from the 'North British Review'; extract from 'Memoirs of Dr Thomas Young' by George Peacock; extract from 'Oxford essays on natural theology' by Rev Baden Powell 1857; extract from 'The World of Mind' by Isaac Taylor (1858); abstract of the 'Theory of Specific Causes' by Professor E Forbes; and extract from the 'European Review Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man' (Thomas Reid 1855). |