NAHSTE: Extracts and notes on natural history

Edinburgh University Library Department of Special Collections
Extracts and notes on natural history
Item Summary
Reference Code	GB 0237 John Walker Dc.2.37
Date(s)	c1770
Extent and medium of the unit of description	1 bound volume
Name of creator	Walker \| John \| 1731-1803 \| professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman
Scope and Content
Scope and Content	Extracts chiefly from Sir Robert Sibbald's books and MSS on natural history in the Advocates' Library. Subjects include minerals, antiquities (e.g., Roman epigraphy, bones in medieval battlefields), sea and animal life, native customs (magical scarves that cattlemen's wives once wore), geographic curiosities (a cliff that shines in the sun, a natural hole of unsoundable depth, there being no frogs in Getland, etc.) Approximately 178 handwritten pages.
Index
Subjects	Natural History
People	Walker \| John \| 1731-1803 \| professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman
Places	Scotland
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Extracts and notes on natural history