Biology, Classification
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Descriptions of land and aquatic animal species, including insects, 1770
Descriptions of new and extant species of land and aquatic animals, including insects (approximately 204 handwritten pages).
Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1770
Descriptions of plants, including trees and lichen, animals, and fish.
Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1772
Descriptions of plant and animal species observed mostly around Edinburgh (approximately 198 handwritten pages).
Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1773
Descriptions of plant and insect species (approximately 212 handwritten pages).
Descriptions of plant and animal species, 1774
Descriptions of plant and insect species (approximately 202 handwritten pages).
Descriptions of plant species, 1769
Descriptions of new and extant species of plants, with notes about other people's collections (approximately 192 handwritten pages).
Descriptions of plants, insects, and minerals, 1766
Descriptions of new and extant species of plants, mostly, with a few insects and minerals as well (approximately 176 handwritten pages).
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).