THE 
EDINBURGH NEW 
PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL. 
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF 
THE LATE PROFESSOR JAMESON, 
REGIUS PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY, LECTURER ON MINERALOGY, AND KEEPER OF 
THE MUSEUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH}5 
Fellow ofthe Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh ; Honorary Member ofthe Royal Irish Academy ; ofthe 
Royal Society of Sciences of Denmark ; of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin ; of the Royal Academy of 
Naples ; of the Geological Society of France; Honorary Member of the Asiatie’Society of Calcutta; Fellow of 
the Royal Linnean, and of the Geological Societies of London ; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and 
of the Cambridge Philosophical Society; of,the Antiquarian, Wernerian Natural History, Royal Medical, Royal 
Physieal, and Horticultural Societies of Edinburgh ; of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland ; of 
the Antiquarian and Literary Society of Perth; of the Statistical Society of Glasgow; of the Royal Dublin 
Society ; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Whitby, Northern, and Cork Institutions ; of the Natural History So- 
ciety of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle ; of the Imperial Pharmaceutical Society of Petersburgh ; of 
the Natural History Society of Wetterau ; of the Mineralogical Society of Jena; of the Royal Mineralogical So- 
ciety of Dresden ; of the Natural History Society of Paris ; of the Philomathic Society of Paris ; of the Natural 
History Society of Calvados ; of the Senkenberg Society of Natural History ; of the Society of Natural Sciences 
and Medicine of Heidelberg ; Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York ; of 
the New York Historical Society ; of the American Antiquarian Society ; of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia ; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York ; of the Natural History Society of Montreal ; of 
the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanical Arts ; of the Geological 
Society of Pennsylvania ; of the Boston Society of Natural History of the United States ; of the South African 
Institution of the Cape of Good Hope ; Honorary Member of the Statistical Society of France ; Member of the 
Entomological Society of Stettin, and other learned Societies. 
By the death of ROBERT JAMESON, the University of Edin- 
burgh has lost a great master and a good man, one of the true 
philosophers of the old school; ‘one who, (in the words of his 
colleague, the Very Rev. Principal Lee,) for a half century, 
has filled a most eminent place among the brightest ornaments 
of this University, and who, indeed, has been entitled to be 
universally recognised as one of the most ardent, and one of 
the most successful contributors to the advancement of 
science in this enlightened age.” In fact, Robert Jameson 
was the Father of Modern Natural History. His loss 
is deeply to be deplored,—a man of the same grasp of 
mind, devoted to physical science, only at times appears to 
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