Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman)
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Minutes volume 1, 12 January 1808 - 01 May 1830
Item
Identifier: Coll-206/1/1
Scope and Contents
Bound volume containing 310 numbered pages. The first 23 sessions of the Wernerian Natural History Society are minuted, including: details of the formation of the society, its original members and constitution, the Charter from the Town Council of Edinburgh and details of nominations for and ratifications of membership. Details of titles and abstract content of all papers read to the society are minuted. These include: Observations on the Mineral System of...
Dates:
12 January 1808 - 01 May 1830
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
Papers in Natural History and Parish Management, 1663-1801
Item
Identifier: John Walker Coll-205/2/1 (Dc.1.57)
Scope and Contents
'Statistical Account of the Parish of Collington' (1801); a property 'decreet' of the parish against a Robert Cleugh (1758); 'State of the Mines in Isla, 6 July 1770'; 1808offset article about grain scarcity in Scotland from Essays on National History; Manitaw Indian goods from the Hudson Bay Company presented as curiosities to the Edinburgh Royal Society in 1787; 'A List of Beasts; Birds; Fishes sent to the Royal Society' (1771); description of a whale washed ashore in 1761; description of...
Dates:
1663-1801
Papers of Dr. John Walker
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-205
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1731-1803
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