Letter to Dr Cowan from the Office of the Secretary of War

Reference
- GB 248 DC 003/1/19
Dates of Creation
- 1855
Language of Material
- English

Scope and Content

Saying that in recognition of his services in the Crimea, the Secretary of War has authorised Sir John Kirkland to pay him at rates prescribed in the letter

Other Finding Aids

See also University of Glasgow Collections

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Papers of Robert Cowan, 1796-1841, and John Black Cowan, 1829-1896, physicians and surgeonsDC 003

Burgess Guild Ticket of the Burgh of Inverkeithing in favour of Robert Cowan, merchant in BurrowstounnessDC 003/1/1

Burgess Guild Ticket of the Burgh of Aberdeen in favour of Robert Cowan, merchant in BurrowstounnessDC 003/1/2

Burgess Guild Ticket of the Burgh of Rutherglen in favour of Harry Horsburgh, merchant in GlasgowDC 003/1/3

Certificate election to membership of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow of Professor John B Cowan, MDDC 003/1/4

Burgess Ticket of the Burgh of Kirkcaldy in favour of Robert Cowan, surgeon in GlasgowDC 003/1/5

Burgess Ticket of the Burgh of Glasgow in favour of William Kingan, merchantDC 003/1/6

Burgess Ticket of the Burgh of Glasgow in favour of John McCaul CowanDC 003/1/7

Burgess Ticket of the Burgh of Glasgow in favour of Alexander CowanDC 003/1/8

Burgess Ticket of the Burgh of Kirkcaldy in favour of John Kingan, merchant in GlasgowDC 003/1/9

Burgess Ticket of the Burgh of Perth in favour of Robert Cowan, GlasgowDC 003/1/10

Certificate of membership of the Old Revolution Club of John McCaul Cowan, minister of the Gospel at SymingtonDC 003/1/11

Certificate of membership of the Merchant's House, Glasgow, admitting Robert Cowan, Home Trader, as a memberDC 003/1/12

Burgess Guild Ticket of the Burgh of Glasgow in favour of Robert Cowan, merchant, whose oath is written aboveDC 003/1/13

Letters Patent appointing Dr Robert Cowan to be Regius Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Forensic Medicine in the University of GlasgowDC 003/1/14

Letters Patent appointing Dr John Black Cowan to be Regius Professor of Materia Medica in the University of GlasgowDC 003/1/15

Diploma of Honorary Doctorate granted by the University of Glasgow to John Cowan, MDDC 003/1/16

Letter to Dr John Cowan expressing their gratitude and good wishes on his retiralDC 003/1/17

Circular letter proposing that Dr Allen Thomson's portrait should be paintedDC 003/1/18

Letter to Dr Cowan from the Office of the Secretary of WarDC 003/1/19

Letter of Instructions to Dr Cowan of his procedure on arriving at Scutari from the Superintendent at RenkioiDC 003/1/20

Circular letter giving terms of service for Civil Hospital in the East, at the period of the Crimean WarDC 003/1/21

Letter from Charles Lindley WoodDC 003/1/22

Letter to Dr Cowan from the War OfficeDC 003/1/23

Letter from the War Office to Dr Cowan informing him that he is to be paid å£24.15.4dDC 003/1/24

Letter of Request for transport for Dr CowanDC 003/1/25

Steamship ticket for Dr Cowan from [Trieste?] to CospoliDC 003/1/26

Letter to Dr Cowan from the War Office (per Fred J Prescott)DC 003/1/27

Volume of Robert Cowan's notesDC 003/2/1/1

Letter from John Cowan concerning his great-grandfather's prescription bookDC 003/2/1/2

Notes of lectures on Materia Medica given by Dr MillerDC 003/2/2/1

Letter from John Cowan to Dean Morris relating to the notes of Dr Miller's lecturesDC 003/2/2/2

Volume containing essays, lecture notes and class exercises 1877DC 003/2/3/0

Introductory lecture on the spread of contagious diseases:DC 003/2/3/1

Introductory lecture by John Black Cowan on epidemic diseasesDC 003/2/3/2

Introductory lecture by John Black Cowan commemorating 100 years of "Materia Medica" at Glasgow University (JBC)DC 003/2/3/3

Introductory lecture by John Black CowanDC 003/2/3/4

Introductory lectureDC 003/2/3/5

Essay on inductive logic by John Black CowanDC 003/2/3/6

Exegesis essay by John Black Cowan entitled Is Induction a distinct species of Reasoning?DC 003/2/3/7

A series of 14 class exercises on mainly pathological mattersDC 003/2/3/8

John Black Cowan's Pathology case notesDC 003/2/3/9

Essay by John Black Cowan entitled On the Moral Effects of Legal Provision for the PoorDC 003/2/3/10

Essay by John Black Cowan entitled On the diagnosis and treatment of the neck of the femurDC 003/2/3/11

Essay by John Black Cowan entitled A Legend of the RhineDC 003/2/3/12

Essay by John Black Cowan entitled On Varicella and its identity with Small PoxDC 003/2/3/13

Essay by John Black Cowan entitled Labore et Honore on What effects are to be ascribed to the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks on European LiteratureDC 003/2/3/14

Notes for essay on the division of nature into animal, vegetable and mineralDC 003/2/3/15

A collection of essays by Robert Black Cowan, one entitled A Description of the 1st Eclogue of VirgilDC 003/2/4/1

Introductory lecture by Robert Cowan concerning clinical instruction at Glasgow Royal InfirmaryDC 003/2/4/2

Text by John Black Cowan entitled On the Moral Effects of a Legal Provision of the PoorDC 003/2/4/3

John Black Cowan's prize essay for the Materia Medica class entitled On the Beelbaru Bark , including coloured sketches of the barkDC 003/2/5

John Black Cowan's notes on practical pharmacology and the preparation of medicinesDC 003/2/6/1

Sheet of pencilled notes with an extract of a poem on Bannockburn by ScottDC 003/2/6/2