Contents: Hope's lectures on chemistry delivered at the University of Edinburgh during the academic year 1805-6. The compiler of the notes cannot be confirmed, but it was possibly the chemist William Henry (1774-1836), the father of Charles Henry, who donated the notes to the Library, who was known to be studying in Edinburgh in 1805.
The manuscript is unbound and is split in several section so unbound papers as follows:
- 1: "Variation of boiling point", 2 December [1805], 4 fos.
- 2a: "Steam, latent caloric of", 4 fos.
- 2b: "Gases" 8 December, 2 fos.
- 3: "Theory of spontaneous evaporation; condensation of atmospheric moisture; Hygrometer; Connexion between light and heat; Incandescence or Ignition"; Discussion of Herschell-Pictet-Leslie" Analysis of solar rays; Pictet's experiment [Prob. Marc-Auguste Pictet, 1752-1825]; Calorific rays: radiation of caloric; radiation of heat", 9, 111, 12 December, 11 fos.
- 4: "Radiation of heat and cold emanations" 14 fos.
- 5: "Gen[era]l facts of chemical action" 8 fos.
- 6: "Technical language" 8 fos.