Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman)
Person
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Papers in Natural History, 1780s
Item
Identifier: Coll 205/1 (Dc.1.18)
Scope and Contents
'Natural History of the Inhabitants of the Highlands, Book 2, with a glossary. 'Collection of Animals Brought from China an. 1787, by Mr Somerville Wilson, Surgeon of the Lord North Indiaman.' A 1789 museum inventory. Economic evaluation of proposed navigation between the Murray Forth and the Sound of Mull. Addendum to the essay on peat. Tables of mineral genera. Lists of natural history students in Edinburgh from 1782 (approximately 100 mostly handwritten pages of text and tables).
Dates:
1780s