Robert Jameson
1774–1854
Geologist and mineralogist. Regius professor of natural history and keeper of the museum at Edinburgh University, 1804–54. Editor of the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1824–54. FRS 1826.
Sources
DSB
ODNB
Past Fellows of the Royal Society (https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/PersonSearch.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons, accessed 1 June 2022)
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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