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[Identification of item], in the Miscellaneous Student Notebooks #3286, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Evolution--Study and teaching--History--19th century.
• Hampden-Sydney College--Students--History--19th century.
• Harvard Law School--Students--History--20th century.
• Law--Study and teaching--History--20th century.
• Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.--History--19th century.
• Moore, Augustus, 1803-1851.
• O'Briant family.
• Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859.
• Orr, Eliza Ann.
• Person County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• School notebooks--History.
• Schools--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Sermons--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--19th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.
• Watson, Harry Legare, 1876-1956.
• Wettach, Robert H.
• Whitefield School (Person County, N.C.)
• Women--Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Arithmetic--Study and teaching--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Caswell County (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Chemistry--Study and teaching--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Chemistry--Study and teaching--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Commonplace books.
• Geology--Study and teaching--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Genealogy.
• Physics--Study and teaching--Virginia--History--19th century.

Miscellaneous school notebooks, including: class notes of Thomas Glaskins, a student at Hampden-Sydney College, Va., 1830-1831, on the lectures of college President Jonathan P. Cushing in chemistry, physics, and arithmetic; two volumes, 1838-1840, of Eliza Ann Orr, a student in Caswell County, N.C., including poems, arithmetic exercises, and sermon texts; an 1820 volume kept by Augustus Moore (1803-1851) of Edenton, N.C., of lectures by Denison Olmsted (1791-1859) at the University of North Carolina; four notebooks, 1920-1921, of Robert H. Wettach, a student at Harvard Law School; two student notebooks, one on geology and the other on Darwinism, of Harry Legare Watson (1876-1956), who was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1899 and went on to careers in law and journalism, chiefly in Greenwood, S.C.; and two ciphering books, one apparently used around 1829 by Sidney O'Briant at the Whitefield School in Person County, N.C., and the other apparently the work of James W. O'Briant. In addition to mathematical instructions, this volume also contains notes on family history, the weather, land purchases, and other information. The latest entry in this book is dated 1860.