 | Science - 1854 - 414 pages
...63d year of his age, and bequeathed his extensive collection to the University of Edinburgh. The Rev. Dr John Walker, Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, in speaking of Balfour's Museum, states that it was deposited in the Hall of the College, which was... | |
 | James Paterson - Clans - 1866 - 100 pages
...of Frogden, &c. 3. John, WS He carried on business for many years in Edinburgh. 4. Jean, married to Dr John Walker, Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. 5. Margaret. Andrew Wauchope died 22d August 1784. His lady predeceased him. In the burial vault of... | |
 | Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - Agriculture - 1878 - 264 pages
...in 1757 a work entitled " The Practical Husbandman." The next lecturer on agriculture was the Eev. Dr John Walker, Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. His lectures were delivered under the countenance and encouragement of the Highland Society, and the... | |
 | Natural History Society of Glasgow - Natural history - 1890 - 478 pages
...time as Sir Walter Scott, says : " They had become so fierce that about 1760 they were exterminated." Dr. John Walker, professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, wrote his Essays on Natural History and Rural Economy towards the end of the eighteenth century, though... | |
 | Scotland - 1897 - 658 pages
...from the work entitled An Economical History of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland, written by Dr. John Walker, Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, and published at Edinburgh in 1808. In the second volume he writes: ' In the Island of Icolumb-kill... | |
 | Lloyd Library and Museum - Botany - 1900 - 420 pages
...(well known by his poetical version of the songs of Solomon) — to whom he dedicated his Archaeologiae Americanse Telluris, etc. Dr. James Edward Smith,...Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. Baron Hnmboldt. Professor Pallas, of Russia. Professor Sparrman, Sweden. Professor Thunberg, Sweden. Professor... | |
 | Benjamin Smith Barton - Materia medica - 1900 - 592 pages
...celebrated writer on amphibious animals. Dr. Patterson, of Londonderry, in Ireland. Monsieur G. Guvier, of Paris, the illustrious author of many learned works...Sparrman, Sweden. Professor Thunberg, Sweden. Professor Burtnaun, of Holland. 8 BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON. " Natural history and botany were his favorite studies,*... | |
 | Natural history - 1909 - 354 pages
...are to be found." Even in the Cotswold Hills " there are none quite equal to some trees in Scotland." Dr. John Walker, Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, who died in 1803, says of it in his Economical History of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland: —... | |
 | Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts - Scotland - 1925 - 954 pages
...498.] PROFESSOR DR. JOHN WALKER, Edinburgh. 1757-1802. — Collection of correspondence and papers by Dr. John Walker, professor of natural history in the University of Edinburgh, relative to the work of his class and the subject of his chair. [III. 352.] TRANSLATION of MINISTERS... | |
 | Denis Fairfax - Nature - 1998 - 236 pages
...scientific name of the fish Squalus selanosus from a drawing in the manuscript papers of the Reverend Dr John Walker, professor of natural history in the University of Edinburgh, who had died in 1803. The museum specimen was an eight-and-a-half feet long fish from Loch Fyne and... | |
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Dr. John Walker, Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. Baron Humboldt. Professor Pallas, of Russia. Professor Sparrman, Sweden. Professor Thunberg, Sweden. Professor Burtnaun, of Holland. 
