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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 30/2/27
Alt Ref NoMS 30 c.27
TitleEarl of Buchan to James Beattie from Middleton
Date5 December 1769
Extent1 Item
Administrative HistoryEarl of Buchan [David Stewart Erskine, 1742-1829] Historian, antiquarian and writer

Joseph Priestly [1733-1804] Scientist, dissenting minister, and theological writer. Chiefly important to Beattie as author of 'An Examination of Dr Reid's Inquiery into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense, Dr Beattie's Essays on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, and Dr Oswald's Appeal to Common Sense in Behalf of Religion' (1774)
DescriptionHe offers Marischal College a prize of gold enamelled box adorned with diamonds, enclosing a silver pen, with pieces of silver or gold for the names of the winners. [Postscript] he had a letter from Priestly saying he is about to write a history of magnetic and perspective
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