Notes of lectures by Charles Alston, with bookplates of Alexander Russell

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Scope and Content

Three volumes of notes of lectures given by Charles Alston, entitled 'A treatise on the materia medica ... from the lectures of Charles Alston, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians and Professor of Botany at Edinburgh. 1733'. 183 x 165 mm, rebound. They bear the armorial bookplate of Alexander Russell, M.D. It is possible that this is the Alexander Russell that studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and graduated in 1779.

Access Information

Open.

Acquisition Information

Purchased by the Library in 1963. Accession no E63/10.

Archivist's Note

Description created by Aline Brodin in April 2019.