Scotland
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
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).
Papers in Natural History and Parish Management, 1663-1801
Papers of Dr. John Walker
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