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See also:NICOL, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1810-1879) , Scottish geologist, was See also:born at See also:Traquair, near See also:Innerleithen, in See also:Peeblesshire, on the 12th of See also:August 181o. His See also:father, the Rev. James Nicol (1769–1819), was See also:minister of Traquair, and acquired some celebrity as a poet. Educated at See also:Edinburgh University (1825), James Nicol attended the lectures of See also:Jameson, and thereby gained a keen See also:interest in See also:geology and See also:mineralogy; and he pursued their study in the See also:universities of See also:Bonn and See also:Berlin. After returning See also:home he worked zealously at the See also:local geology and obtained prizes from the Highland Society for essays on the geology of See also:Peebles-See also:shire and See also:Roxburghshire; he subsequently extended his re-searches over various parts of See also:Scotland, and in 1844 published his able See also:Guide to the Geology of Scotland. In 1847 he was appointed assistant secretary to the See also:Geological Society of See also:London, in 1849 See also:professor of geology in See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:Cork, and in 1853 professor of natural See also:history in the University of See also:Aberdeen, a See also:post which he retained until a few months before he died, on the 8th of See also:April 1879. During these years he carried out important researches on the See also:southern uplands of Scotland and on the structure of the See also:Highlands. In the former region he gave the first clear See also:account of the See also:succession of the fossiliferous See also:Lower Palaeozoic rocks (1848–1852); and when he came to See also:deal with the still older Highland rocks he made out the position of the Torridon See also:sandstone and Durness See also:limestone and their relations to the See also:schists and gneisses. His matured views, although contested by See also:Murchison, have subsequently been substantiated by Professor C. See also:Lapworth and others.
The more important of his papers were: " On the Structure of the See also:North-Western Highlands " (Quart. Journ, Geol. See also:Soc., 1861), and "On the Geological Structure of the Southern See also:Grampians " (ib., 1863). He contributed the See also:article" Mineralogy " to the ninth edition of the Encyclopcedia Britannica. Among his other See also:works were See also:Manual of Mineralogy (1849); Elements of Mineralogy (1858, 2nd ed., 1873); Geological See also:Map of Scotland (1858) ; and Geology and Scenery of the North of Scotland (1866).
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