Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman)
Person
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Bound manuscript entitled 'Sect. 7. Cattle, Green Crops' , c 1790
Item — Box: CLX-A-1141
Identifier: Coll-205/7
Scope and Contents
A large bound manuscript volume entitled 'Sect. 7. Cattle, Green Crops'. Given the title, this text, whilst complete in itself, must be part of a multivolume set.
'The Soil & Climate of the Highlands'
'The State of the Highland Cattle during Winter'
'The grasses and green Crops proper to be cultivated in the Highlands'
'Crops for dry Provender: 1. Clover...
Dates:
c 1790
Correspondence of Dr. John Walker, Professor of Natural History, Edinburgh, 18th Century
Item
Identifier: La.III.352
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Dr. John Walker, Professor of Natural History, Edinburgh.
Dates:
18th Century
Descriptions of land and aquatic animal species, including insects, 1770
Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/4 (Dc.2.32)
Scope and Contents
Descriptions of new and extant species of land and aquatic animals, including insects (approximately 204 handwritten pages).
Dates:
1770
Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1770
Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/3 (Dc.2.31)
Scope and Contents
Descriptions of plants, including trees and lichen, animals, and fish.
Dates:
1770
Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1772
Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/5 (Dc.2.33)
Scope and Contents
Descriptions of plant and animal species observed mostly around Edinburgh (approximately 198 handwritten pages).
Dates:
1772
Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1773
Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/6 (Dc.2.34)
Scope and Contents
Descriptions of plant and insect species (approximately 212 handwritten pages).
Dates:
1773
Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1774
Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/7 (Dc.2.35)
Scope and Contents
Descriptions of plant and insect species (approximately 202 handwritten pages).
Dates:
1774
Descriptions of plant species, 1769
Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/2 (Dc.2.30)
Scope and Contents
Descriptions of new and extant species of plants, with notes about other people's collections (approximately 192 handwritten pages).
Dates:
1769
Descriptions of plants, insects, and minerals, 1766
Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/1 (Dc.2.29)
Scope and Contents
Descriptions of new and extant species of plants, mostly, with a few insects and minerals as well (approximately 176 handwritten pages).
Dates:
1766
Extracts and notes on natural history, c1770
Item
Identifier: Coll-205/4/2 (Dc.2.37)
Scope and Contents
Extracts chiefly from Sir Robert Sibbald's books and MSS on natural history in the Advocates' Library. Subjects include minerals, antiquities (e.g., Roman epigraphy, bones in medieval battlefields), sea and animal life, native customs (magical scarves that cattlemen's wives once wore), geographic curiosities (a cliff that shines in the sun, a natural hole of unsoundable depth, there being no frogs in Getland, etc.) Approximately 178 handwritten pages. Authorship not known with...
Dates:
c1770