Macculloch, John, 1773-1835 (surgeon, geologist and surveyor)

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Curved Gneiss in Lewis. Line engraving. 1 June 1819. Macculloch, John, 1773-1835, Artist; Heath, Charles, 1785-1848, Engraver; Archibald Constable & Co., Publisher.

Published in: Macculloch, A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland (1819), vol. 3 plates.

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Junction of Sandstone and Trap at Stirling Castle. Line engraving. 1814. Macculloch, John, 1773-1835, Artist; Cooke, George, 1781-1834, Engraver.

Published in: Transactions of the Geological Society, vol. 2 (1814) Plate II.

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Junction of the schist and trap, with the prolongation of [the] former into veins, in the Hill of Kinnoul. Line engraving. 1817. Macculloch, John, 1773-1835, Artist; Cooke, George, 1781-1834, Engraver.

Published in: Transactions of the Geological Society, vol. IV (1817) Plate II.

Scope and Contents Note about the people of Rona [Rònaigh/North Rona] taken from John MacCulloch's The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland that they are Roman Catholic, that each summer a boat is sent to Lewis [Eilean Leòdhais] to the Earl of Seaforth with 'the excresence of above thirty souls', something which the islanders 'exce[e]d[ingly] bewail'. Their annual payment to the Earl is 'some quantity of meal stitched up in sheeps skins and feathers of seafowls'. It is noted that...

Scope and Contents Note entitled 'N[orth]. Rona' taken from John MacCulloch's The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland containing a description of the size and appearance of North Rona [Rònaigh], including the height of cliffs. He notes that Saint Ronan is the patron saint of the seas and that Kenneth MacCagie had to stay there for 8 years. The island had no peats and no water except for holes in the rocks. The description of the adjacent island of Barr or Sulisker [Sula Sgeir] is...

Scope and Contents Notes for a paper on sections of Isla, [Melges], Prosen and South Esk containing information from publications and other scientists about rock types in Forfarshire. c1822-1824.

Scope and Contents Poem about Iona [Ì Chaluim Chille] taken from The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland by John MacCulloch which reads 'There never yet came man to I, Who did not come times three'.

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[View in Glen Roy taken from below Glen Fintec]. Etching. 1817. Macculloch, John, 1773-1835, Artist; Cooke, George, 1781-1834, Engraver.

Note: Etched state of plate published in Transactions of the Geological Society (1817), lacking title. In pencil, below left: 'Inverness'.

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[View in Glen Roy taken from near Glen Fintec]. Line engraving. 1817. Macculloch, John, 1773-1835, Artist; Cooke, George, 1781-1834, Engraver.

Published in: Transactions of the Geological Society (1817).

Note: Pencil annotation on album page: 'Parallel roads, Glen Roy'.