Lecture Notes

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John Walker was appointed to the chair of Natural History at Edinburgh in 1779, and stayed there until his death in 1803. His lectures included practical thoughts on national exploitation of the resources of nature, especially in the underdeveloped Scottish highlands.

Lectures of John Walker consists of:

• Notes and transcriptions of lectures, some possibly by John Walker, but most by others, not usually identified. Also two of his published pamphlets for students, annotated heavily.

• Geology
• Natural History

• Walker | John | 1731-1803 | professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman

• Scotland