| Description | Letters concerning appoinments to chairs in Scottish universities, Medical Act Amendment Bill, Education Act, local government and herring fishing, 1861-1886, including: Letters (2) to R.A Cross, Secretary of State for the Home Department, from Max Muller and Professor M.Williams, Oxford recommending respectively Dr Eggeling and A.G Gough for the Sanskirt chair at Edinburgh, 1875. Letter to R.A Cross from Joseph Lister resigning the chair of Clinical Surgery in Edinburgh University on his appointment to the chair of Clincial Surgery in King's College, London, 11 July 1877. Letter from Arthur Balfour to J.B Nicolson about Scottish local government and also stating- 'Without the smallest doubt, peers and women must be included in the new franchise', 6 December 1886 |