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MS.17826. Papers, mostly 18th century (including some by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun and Lord Milton) but with a few by Sir Robert Fletcher of Saltoun and a few early 19th century, on logic (f.l), mathematics (ff.23, 144), the calendar (f.45), weights and measures (f.53), medicine (f.86), tactics (f.88), technology (f.97), and the weather (f.127) 152 ff. MS.17827. 'Arithmetick,' by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun. 19 ff. Quarto. MS.17828. 'Elements of Geometry,' by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun. 31 + some blank ff. Quarto MS.17829. Papers, 1717-1805, nd on agriculture and horticulture, the majority by or for Lord Milton, but with some by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun, his wife Margaret Carnegie, and General John Fletcher of Saltoun. 196 ff. MS.17830 'Agricultur5,r by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun, including also drawings for farm buildings and a hexagonal church. 21 ff. Quarto MS.17831. Notes on agriculture by Lord Milton. 71 + many blank + 5 (inverted) ff Quarto. MS.17832. Notes on agriculture and horticulture by Lord Milton, with other miscellaneous notes, 1727-62,n.d. 43 + many blank + 5 (inverted) ff. Quarto. MS.17833 Copy of Francis Home's 'The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation, an essay which was awarded the prize of the Edinburgh Society for the Improvement of Arts and Manufactures in 1755 and was Published at Edinburgh in 1757, 48 ff. Folio. MS.17834. 'Copy of a Memoire or paper upon Lime, read in a Meeting of the Philosophical Society at Edinburgh Au0: 2 1739 containing an Account of the Materials of which it is made, the way of burning or calcining Limestone, and the Nature [and] Properties and Uses of Lime by Mr [Alexander] Lind [of Gorgie] Member of the Said Society.' 30 ff. Folio. MS.17835-7. Three copies of a 'Natural History of the Parish of Salton'. MS.17335 has on the cover 'written Anno 1756' and at the end 'This Natural History was written on Occasion of some Queries published in the Gentleman's Magazine for April 1756.' MS.17836 lacks these notes but is endorsed 1758. MS.17837 has a slightly expanded text. 10 ff. Quarto. 7 ff. Folio. 11 ff. Quarto. MS.17838-49. A series of notebooks on botany, written in pencil in the early 19th century. Octavo.
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