Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman)
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Extracts and notes on natural history, c1770
1761 descriptive list of 146 important titles in natural history; notes on 'Boece's Chronology' [of kings of the Scots back to BC 330]. 'Boece' is probably Dundee-born historian Hector Boethius (c.1465 - 1536). Approximately 80 handwritten pages.
An eighteenth-century hand denotes this 'M.S. Vol. 37'. The leaf holding pages 3 and 4 has been excised.
Letter from Patrick Wilson to Joseph Black, 30 October 1781
Letter from Patrick Wilson to Joseph Black about snow water and offering items for John Walker's collection.
Letter from Professor John Walker to Joseph Black , c 1798
Letter from Professor John Walker to Joseph Black, undated, however watermark is dated 1798. The letter is about peat. Walker criticises Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's account of the principles of vegetables and praises Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau' s nomenclature in chemistry, etc.
Minutes volume 1, 12 January 1808 - 01 May 1830
Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. 1, c1741
Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. 2, c1726-c1802
Essay on cultivating with marle; Description of a whale cast ashore in Fife; Novum Organicum Botanicum; extensive correspondence between John Clark and 'Mr Gale' (approximately 200 handwritten pages, with some drawings).
Occasional Remarks by the Revd. Dr. Walker, Prof. of Natural History at Edinburgh, c1779
Short essays by John Walker on human emotions and conduct, on Scottish antiquities, on a particular green caterpillar known to Linnaeus, and on the theory of the earth. Short commentary on these essays in the handwriting of a Lord Woodhouse, 'to whom the remarks seem to have been submitted'. Original contents page is at the back, possibly in Walker's hand (approximately 134 handwritten pages, with some drawings).
Papers in geography, history, and science, 1750-1781
Papers in geography, science, and letters, 1743-1783
Papers in Natural History, 1780s
'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).
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