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Autograph Letter Signed ("Robert Jameson") Decling the Purchase of an Elephant Skeleton. JAMESON (Robert).
JAMESON DECLINES THE PURCHASE OF AN ELEPHANT SKELETON
Black ink. One page, folded. 4to. [248 x 203 mm].
Edinburgh: College Museum, June 3rd 1831
Very good condition. A rather fun letter in which Jameson has to regretfully decline the purchase of an elephant skeleton for the University of Edinburgh's Natural History collection due to a lack of funds.
Robert Jameson (1774-1854) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist who served for fifty years as Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh. During his long tenure he grew the university's fossil and mineral collection to the point that it became one of the largest collections in Europe.
Having attended the University of Edinburgh as an undergraduate, Jameson was heavily influenced by the Regius Professor of Natural History John Walker (1731-1803) and focused his studies on science, particularly geology and mineralogy. In 1793 he was given charge of caring for the university's natural history collection and in 1799 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Jameson succeeded Walker as Regius Professor in 1804. The Scottish philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle makes note of Jameson's teaching style as being "a blizzard of facts", however Charles Darwin who attended Jameson's natural history course in his teenage years attests to the fact that Jameson's lectures determined him to "never to attend to the study of geology".
Stock no. ebc8697
JAMESON DECLINES THE PURCHASE OF AN ELEPHANT SKELETON
Black ink. One page, folded. 4to. [248 x 203 mm].
Edinburgh: College Museum, June 3rd 1831
Very good condition. A rather fun letter in which Jameson has to regretfully decline the purchase of an elephant skeleton for the University of Edinburgh's Natural History collection due to a lack of funds.
Robert Jameson (1774-1854) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist who served for fifty years as Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh. During his long tenure he grew the university's fossil and mineral collection to the point that it became one of the largest collections in Europe.
Having attended the University of Edinburgh as an undergraduate, Jameson was heavily influenced by the Regius Professor of Natural History John Walker (1731-1803) and focused his studies on science, particularly geology and mineralogy. In 1793 he was given charge of caring for the university's natural history collection and in 1799 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Jameson succeeded Walker as Regius Professor in 1804. The Scottish philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle makes note of Jameson's teaching style as being "a blizzard of facts", however Charles Darwin who attended Jameson's natural history course in his teenage years attests to the fact that Jameson's lectures determined him to "never to attend to the study of geology".
Stock no. ebc8697
JAMESON DECLINES THE PURCHASE OF AN ELEPHANT SKELETON
Black ink. One page, folded. 4to. [248 x 203 mm].
Edinburgh: College Museum, June 3rd 1831
Very good condition. A rather fun letter in which Jameson has to regretfully decline the purchase of an elephant skeleton for the University of Edinburgh's Natural History collection due to a lack of funds.
Robert Jameson (1774-1854) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist who served for fifty years as Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh. During his long tenure he grew the university's fossil and mineral collection to the point that it became one of the largest collections in Europe.
Having attended the University of Edinburgh as an undergraduate, Jameson was heavily influenced by the Regius Professor of Natural History John Walker (1731-1803) and focused his studies on science, particularly geology and mineralogy. In 1793 he was given charge of caring for the university's natural history collection and in 1799 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Jameson succeeded Walker as Regius Professor in 1804. The Scottish philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle makes note of Jameson's teaching style as being "a blizzard of facts", however Charles Darwin who attended Jameson's natural history course in his teenage years attests to the fact that Jameson's lectures determined him to "never to attend to the study of geology".
Stock no. ebc8697