12 Biographical Memoir of 
Kelp, was a highly creditable work, displaying a large share 
of mineralogical knowledge, obtained under circumstances 
that rendered its acquisition meritorious, and exhibiting an 
independence of intellect that renounced the theories amidst 
which he was educated, and became self-convinced of the 
important truth, that complete mineralogical knowledge is — 
indispensable to every speculator in geology.’’* 
Intent on following up his discoveries, in 1798 Mr Jame- 
son, in company with his intimate friend, Charles Bell, 
afterwards Sir Charles Bell, the celebrated anatomist and 
physiologist, spent the summer months in examining the 
geology of the Hebrides and Western Islands. In 1799 he 
visited and investigated the Orkney Islands, and again 
turned his steps to the inexhaustible field presented by the 
Isle of Arran. From these diligent researches he was 
enabled, in 1800, to publish his “ Mineralogy of the Scottish 
Isles,” in two volumes quarto, illustrated with maps and 
plates. This great work contained the first sketch of the 
geology of the Hebrides and Orkneys; and it has served as 
the foundation in all the scientific accounts of these islands 
which have issued from the press. 
Jameson left his own country for Freyberg in 1800, where 
he remained nearly two years, studying mineralogy and 
geology under the learned and famous Werner. He worked 
in the mines there under the rules laid down by his master, and 
went through the same drudgery and the same kind of work as 
the common miner, by which means he acquired much valuable 
knowledge. Some of his companions who studied at the 
same time under Werner gained a high European reputation, 
among these were, Frederick Mohs, the celebrated minera- 
logist; T. F. D’Aubisson de Voisins, distinguished for his 
work on the Mines of Freyberg, his excellent System of 
Geognosy ; and Basalts of Saxony ;} and Professor Stef- 
* Edinburgh Review. 
t This work was translated by Professor Jameson’s attached friend, the late 
Dr Neill. Jameson relied much on the judgment of Neill, and considered him 
a wise counsellor.—HDtr. 
