Student lecture notes and book extracts

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Notes from lectures by John Walker, then an index, then book extracts. Sample of asbestos, or 'rock flax', stitched into the unnumbered page 75. Colour schematic illustration of a coal seam on unnumbered page 124. Inner page inscribed with the name of John Douglas, Edinburgh (approximately 188 handwritten pages).

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Specimen of rock flax (asbestos) from a notebook of John Douglas, student of Rev Dr John Walker (1 of 2) 1791

Specimen of rock flax (asbestos) from a notebook of John Douglas, student of Rev Dr John Walker (2 of 2) 1791

• Natural History

• Walker | John | 1731-1803 | professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman