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tions, are all that remain to keep alive his remembrance. 
His lectures were much esteemed for the clear and scientific 
manner in which they were written. ‘“ The appointment of 
Professor Jameson, the favourite pupil of Dr Walker, to be 
his successor in the chair, in 1804,” says his highly distin- 
guished and true friend, Dr Fleming, “ raised great expec- 
tations, and were speedily realized. The notions of the 
Huttonians, at this period, respecting the laws of superposi- 
tion of the strata were very defective, scarcely amounting to 
perceivable glimmerings. But Professor Jameson, intimately 
acquainted with the geognosy of Werner, speedily began to 
group the rocks of the neighbourhood into their distinct for- 
mations, and to assign the relative position of our transition 
rocks, old red sandstone, and the independent coal formation. 
This important step in the progress of our geology was fol- 
lowed by a system of prelections, accompanied by excursions 
to the more important localities, where the phenomena could 
be studied in the field, and produced a number of zealous 
observers, who have not only extended our knowledge of the 
structure and contents of this locality, but of the United King- 
dom and its dependencies.” Fleming, one of the very few re- 
“maining of the Wernerians of Jameson’s standing, did more 
good to his country in forwarding the correct method in 
describing natura] bodies, in his work on the Philosophy of 
Zoology, than any man living at that time. This work will 
always be highly appreciated as a standard work of reference. 
The extent of Jameson’s lectures on Natural History, which 
embraced general views and particular details in Meteorolo- 
gy, Hydrology, Mineralogy, Geology, Botany, and Zoology, 
will be seen from the following condensed and short outline 
of them. 
METEOROLOGY. 
1. General Properties of the Atmosphere-—Pressure—Figure— 
Height—Temperature— Colour— Light— Transparency— Refrac- 
tion and Twilight—Temperature of Space—Transparency of Space— 
Composition. 
2. Aqueous Meteors. — Evaporation — Dew — Hoarfrost — 
Aqueous Fog—Dry Fog—C!louds—Rain—Hail—Sleet—Snow— 
Snow line—Glaciers—A valanche—Iceberg. 
3. Luminous Meteors.—Rainbow—Halo—Parhelion and Para- 
selene— Corona— Shadows— Unusual Atmospheric Refractions— 
Atmospherical Electvicity—Fireballs—Falling or Shooting Stars— 
Aurora Borealis—Zodiacal Light. 
