| Description | Including appointments to academic positions in Aberdeen and Cambridge, publications, reviews, travel to Germany and the Middle East, position as editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Burnett Lectures in Aberdeen.
Papers relating to the controversy in the Free Church stemming originally from William Robertson Smith's article "Bible" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and resulting in William Robertson Smith's removal from his professorship in the Free Church College, Aberdeen (the "Free Church College case" are collected separately in MS 3674/3). |