Records of the Wernerian Natural History Society 1808-1858
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Werner, Abraham Gottlob, 1749-1817
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Wernerian Natural History Society
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The Wernerian Natural History Society was formed in Edinburgh in January 1808 by nine scientists and laymen, presided over by Robert Jameson (1774-1854), and in honour of the illustrious Abraham Gottlob Werner of Freiberg. Werner (1750-1817) was a German geologist and mineralogist who helped to establish geology and mineralogy as two distinct sciences and became the first scientist to classify minerals systematically. He believed that rock strata were either sediments originally deposited at the...
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854
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Scots physician and mineralogist. From the description of Letter, undated : to Dr. Anderson, Leith, Scotland. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31674744 Scottish naturalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Edinburgh?], to Mr. Aiken, 1830 Oct. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269524677 Robert Jameson was a British mineralogist. In 1804 he was appointed regius professor of natural history and keeper of the university museum at Edi...
Hutton, James, 1726-1797
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