Notes

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Robert Jameson was Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh for fifty years. He looked after the University's Natural History Collection and expanded its holdings immensely, and he explored and published in geology, mineralogy, zoology and botany, particulary in Scotland. He also presided over the Wernerian Natural History Society and edited the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal.

Notes consists of:

• a packet labelled 'Magnetism' and 'fossil organic remains', containing handwritten text, possibly course notes, on magnetism within the earth, and gravitational fields across the planetary system, which includes commentary on comets by Cicero.
• Notes follow on limestone, coral islands, and magnetic variation. The bulk of the loose papers are mineralogical notes, often commentary on Werner, organized in no clear way; jotted drawings, and occasional printed plates, such as of an 'ornithocephalus' found in Germany.
• In a separate folder is a manuscript extract from Pouillet's Elemens de Physique Experimentale et de Meteorologie. The box contains also a 1967 note on Jameson's Remarks on Chenevix, by Dr JM Sweet.

• Coral Reefs and Islands
• Earth, Magnetism
• Fossils
• Limestone
• Meteorology
• Mineralogy

• Cicero | Marcus Tullus | 106-43 BC | Roman statesman, barrister, scholar and writer
• Pouillet | Claude Servais Mathias | 1790-1868 | French geologist
• Walker | John | 1731-1803 | professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman
• Werner | Abraham Gottlob | 1750-1817 | German geologist, inspector and teacher Freiberg Mining Academy

• Germany