the late Professor Jameson. 9 
and Jameson, though opponents as geologists, friendship long 
subsisted. Dr Hope displayed the first oxyhydrogen blow- 
pipe, which was constructed under Mr Jameson’s superin- 
tendence—an instrument indispensable in analytical mine- 
ralogy. Thus attending lectures, and studying the subjects 
lectured on, he did not consider these all that were neces- 
sary to form a chemist; he felt unless he could handle a 
erucible as well as name it—unless he could collect the 
gases as well as describe them—he was only a nominal 
chemist. His father, entering into his views, assigned him 
a suitable room for his laboratory, and fully supplied him 
with what apparatus it required, and allowed him necessary 
attendants in assisting him in his experiments. 
Before Jameson laid before the public any separate works, 
he appears to have confined his literary labours to the com- 
munication of papers on various scientific subjects which 
he read to the Natural History Society—a society that ap- 
pears to have been instituted in 1790, but whose proceed- 
ings were not published,—and to several periodical publica- 
tions. A list of a few of these papers will shew how he was 
occupied from the time he commenced his Natural History 
investigations, and how he continued to follow up these re- 
searches. 
Natural History Society. 
Before this Society he appears to have read the following 
communications :— 
1. Description of the Phasianus Argus. 
2. Psittacus Magnificus, Shaw. 
3. On the Class Vermes, containing a Catalogue, with descrip- 
tions of most bodies of this class, as found on the Leith shore. 
4, An account of Marine bodies found near Queensferry. 
5. A description of the Psittacus Xanthocaudatus. 
6. Description of Marine bodies found in Shetland. 
7. A Catalogue of Birds found in the neighbourhood of Leith, 
with a few general remarks on them. 
8. On the Hydra Squammata of Miiller. 
9. An examination of Mr Townson’s description of Arthur’ s 
Seat. 
10. Mineralogical Observations made in the Highlands in 1796. 
11. Geological and Mineralogical Description of the Shetland 
Islands. Mineralogy of the Mainland—Yell—Fetlar—Balta. 
