two volumes, n.d., n.p., 8vo in full leather, Walker's Natural History in gilt on red applied label on spine. One volume has 277 handwritten pages and "2" stamped on spine, the other 280pp with "3" stamped on spine, both with handwritten indices. Volume II has topics such as: Inland Seas, Geology, Mineralogy, the minerals being classified as Linnaeus had proposed for plants and animals, by Class, Order, Genus, etc. Volume III continues from Volume II, with orders of schists, porphyries, micas, metals, etc. In the first half, Botany starts on page 85, and Zoology on page 167. Clearly he had more to say about the earth than life forms that live on it! John Walker was born to a life of learning. His father was a schoolmaster in Edinburgh, Scotland, and John attended the University of Edinburgh, receiving a divinity degree in 1749. Although working as a parish minister for the next 30 years, he found time to pursue his interests in natural history, as many other gentlemen of the time did. He continued studies under William Cullen and others in Edinburgh's Philosophical Society, becoming distinguished especially as a chemist and mineralogist. After the loss of Robert Ramsey, Walker obtained that position at the University of Edinburgh in 1779, a position he held until his death in 1803.
two volumes, n.d., n.p., 8vo in full leather, Walker's Natural History in gilt on red applied label on spine. One volume has 277 handwritten pages and "2" stamped on spine, the other 280pp with "3" stamped on spine, both with handwritten indices. Volume II has topics such as: Inland Seas, Geology, Mineralogy, the minerals being classified as Linnaeus had proposed for plants and animals, by Class, Order, Genus, etc. Volume III continues from Volume II, with orders of schists, porphyries, micas, metals, etc. In the first half, Botany starts on page 85, and Zoology on page 167. Clearly he had more to say about the earth than life forms that live on it! John Walker was born to a life of learning. His father was a schoolmaster in Edinburgh, Scotland, and John attended the University of Edinburgh, receiving a divinity degree in 1749. Although working as a parish minister for the next 30 years, he found time to pursue his interests in natural history, as many other gentlemen of the time did. He continued studies under William Cullen and others in Edinburgh's Philosophical Society, becoming distinguished especially as a chemist and mineralogist. After the loss of Robert Ramsey, Walker obtained that position at the University of Edinburgh in 1779, a position he held until his death in 1803.
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