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See also:JAMESON, See also:ROBERT (1774-1854) , Scottish naturalist and mineralogist, was See also:born at See also:Leith on the 11th of See also:July 1774. He became assistant to a surgeon in his native See also:town; but, having studied natural See also:history under Dr See also:John See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
Walker in 1792 and 1793, he See also:felt that his true See also:province See also:lay in that See also:science. He went in 1800 to See also:Freiberg to study for nearly two years under See also:Werner, and spent two more in See also:continental travel. In 1804 he succeeded Dr Walker as regius See also:professor of natural history in See also:Edinburgh university, and became perhaps the first eminent exponent in See also:Great See also:Britain of the Wernerian See also:geological See also:system; but when he found that theory untenable, he frankly announced his See also:conversion to the views of See also:Hutton. As a teacher, Jameson was remark-able for his See also:power of imparting See also:enthusiasm to his students, and from his class-See also:room there radiated an See also:influence which gave a marked impetus to the study of See also:geology in Britain. His See also:energy also, by means of See also:government aid, private donation and See also:personal outlay, amassed a great See also:part of the splendid collection which nc w occupies the natural history See also:department of the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh. In 1819 Jameson, with See also:Sir See also:David See also:Brewster, started the Edinburgh Philosophical See also:Journal, which after the tenth See also:volume remained under his See also:sole conduct till his See also:death, which took See also:place in Edinburgh on the ,9th of See also:April 1854. His bust now stands in the See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall of the Edinburgh University library.
Jameson was the author of Outline of the See also:Mineralogy of the See also:Shetland Islands and of the See also:Island of See also:Arran (1798), incorporated with Mineralogy of the Scottish Isles (1800) ; Mineralogical Description of See also:Scotland, vol. i. pt. 1.
End of Article: JAMESON, ROBERT (1774-1854)
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