Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-tn8tq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-23T11:51:05.283Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

III.—A Double Centenary—Two Notable Naturalists, Robert Jameson and Edward Forbes*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

James Ritchie
Get access

Extract

Seldom, if ever, in the long histories of the Scottish Universities can there have chanced a centenary such as we now commemorate. In the same year, 1854, there died in Edinburgh two celebrated occupants of the Regius Chair of Natural History in the University, one full of years, with solid achievement and half a century of academic service behind him, the other in the first year of his Professorship, in the full tide of life, whose great accomplishment held promise of greater still; the one the master, the other his brilliant pupil and successor—Robert Jameson and Edward Forbes. Each of these men, in his own way, added enormously to the factual stock of knowledge, but the greater contribution was that each, by precept and example, helped to modify and mould the outlook of naturalists throughout the civilized world.

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , January 1957 , pp. 29 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1956

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

*

This paper was assisted in publication by a grant from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

References

Jameson References

Anon, (a), 1854. Brief obituary notice, Mon. J. Med. Sci. Edin., 18, 486.Google Scholar
Anon, (b), 1854. “Biography of the late Professor Jameson”, Mon. J. Med. Sci. Edin., 18, 572–575.Google Scholar
Anon, (c) 1854. Obituary notice, Gentleman's Magazine, June, 656.Google Scholar
Anon, (d), 1856. Obituary notice, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond., 7, 276.Google Scholar
Bailey, E. B., 1921. “Geology” in Edinburgh's Place in Scientific Progress, 66–83. London and Edinburgh.Google Scholar
B[oulger], G. S., 1892. “Robert Jameson” in Dict. Nat. Biogr., 29, 234.Google Scholar
Darwin, Charles, 1887. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an Autobiographical Chapter. Edited by his son, Francis Darwin. London.Google Scholar
Eyles, V. A., 1954. “Robert Jameson and the Royal Scottish Museum”, Discovery, April, 155–162.Google Scholar
Grant, Alexander, 1884. The Story of the University of Edinburgh during the First Three Hundred Years. London.Google Scholar
Jameson, Laurence, 1854. “Biographical Memoir of the late Professor Jameson”, Edin. New Phil. J., 57, 1–49.Google Scholar
Jameson, Robert, 1793. “Journal of a Voyage from Leith to London, August 12, 1793”, MS. Notebook in Edinburgh University Library.Google Scholar
Kay, J., 1877. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Sketches, 4, 452–454. Edinburgh.Google Scholar
“Maga”—The University Maga, 1835, contains caricature sketch and note.Google Scholar
R[ankine], W. J. M, n.d. “Robert Jameson” in Imp. Dict. Universal Biogr., 3, 17. London, Glasgow and Edinburgh.Google Scholar
Ritchie, James, 1943. “The Edinburgh Explorers”, Univ. Edin. J., 155–159.Google Scholar
Ritchie, James, 1952. “Natural history and the emergence of geology in the Scottish Universities”, Trans. Edin. Geol. Soc., 15, 297–316.Google Scholar
Scoresby-Jackson, R. E., 1861. The Life of William Scoresby. London.Google Scholar
Scottish Universities Commission of 1826 and 1830. Evidence, I, Appendix, 115. London, 1837.Google Scholar
Walker, [John], Dr 1792. Institutes of Natural History, being the Heads of the Lectures in Natural History delivered in the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh.Google Scholar
Wilson, George, and Geikie, Archibald, 1861. Memoir of Edward Forbes, F.R.S. Cambridge, London and Edinburgh.Google Scholar
Anon., 1896. “Edward Forbes, F.R.S.” in Register of Associates and Old Students of the Royal College of Chemistry, Royal School of Mines, and Royal College of Science. London. Pp. lxxx–lxxxii.Google Scholar
B[alfour], J[ohn] H[utton], n.d. “Edward Forbes” in Imp. Dict. Universal Biogr., 2, 432. London, Glasgow and Edinburgh.Google Scholar
B[ennett], J[ohn] H[ughes], 1855 a. “Biography of the late Edward Forbes”, Mon. J. Med., 20, 75–92.Google Scholar
Bennett, John Hughes, 1855 b. Memoir of the late Professor Edward Forbes. A separate issue, slightly modified, of the Biography noted above. Edinburgh. Pp. 22.Google Scholar
B[ettany], G. T., 1889. “Edward Forbes” in Dicd. Nat. Biogr., 19, 388–392.Google Scholar
Forbes, Edward, 1833. Journal in Norge. MS. volume in Edinburgh University Library.Google Scholar
Herdman, W. A., 1915. “The life and work of Edward Forbes”, Ann. Rep. Lpool Mar. Biol. Comm., 29, 17–44.Google Scholar
M'Intosh, W. C., 1915. “Prof. Edward Forbes as a zoologist”, Scot. Nat., 49–59.Google Scholar
Nicholson, H. Alleyne, n.d. “Edward Forbes” in Lives and Labours of Leading Naturalists, 192–222. London and Edinburgh.Google Scholar
Radcliffe, William, 1915 [Editor]. “Edward Forbes Centenary Commemoration, February 13th, 1915.” Report of Proc. at the Geol. Soc., Burlington House, and at the London Manx Soc. Headquarters. Pp. 45. [Contains Addresses and appreciations by Sir Archibald Geikie and others.]Google Scholar
R[eeve], L., 1855. “Biographical Sketch”, v–xiv, in Literary Papers of the late Professor Edward Forbes, F.R.S. London.Google Scholar
Wilson, George, and Geikie, Archibald, 1861. Memoir of Edward Forbes, F.R.S. Cambridge, London and Edinburgh.Google Scholar