Genre:

Review

Publications reviewed:

Coleridge 1817 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1817. Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions, London: R. Fenner
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Subjects:

Dissection, Feeling

Genre:

Letter, Reportage

Subjects:

Meteorology, Electricity, Wonder

Institutions mentioned:

Wernerian Natural History Society Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh
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Publications cited:

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1665–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Genre:

Letter, Extract

Publications extracted:

William Scoresby Scoresby, William, Jr. (1789–1857) ODNB
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Subjects:

Natural Philosophy, Experiment, Endeavour, Navigation

People mentioned:

Joseph Banks, Banks, Sir Joseph (1743–1820) DSB ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Henry Cavendish, Cavendish, Henry (1731–1810) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> George Gilpin Gilpin, George (fl. 1792–1807) WBI
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Genre:

Paper, Serial

Subjects:

Light, Natural History, Experiment

Genre:

Letter, Review

Publications reviewed:

Archiv für Thierischen Magnetismus Archiv für Thierischen Magnetismus (1817–24) Sphinx. Neue Archiv für Thierischen Magnetismus (1824–26) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism, Prognostication, Medical Treatment, Death

People mentioned:

Karl Eschenmayer Eschenmayer, Karl (1768–1852) WBI
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See also:

Robert Gordon?, 'Observations on Animal Magnetism', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1 (1817), 563–67, Robert Gordon?, 'The German Somnabulists and Miss M'Avoy', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 2 (1817–18), 437–43

Genre:

Review

Publications reviewed:

[Brougham 1817] [Brougham, Henry Peter] 1817. 'Present State of West India affairs', Edinburgh Review, 28, 340–371
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Subjects:

Race, Medical Treatment

Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Meteorology, Public Health, Disease, Medical Treatment, Epidemiology, Class, Hospitals

People mentioned:

John Haygarth Haygarth, John (1740–1827) ODNB
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Institutions mentioned:

Chester Infirmary, Chester Infirmary
Close   View the register entry >> Manchester House of Recovery, Manchester House of Recovery
Close   View the register entry >> Institution for the Cure and Prevention of Infectious Fever, Institution for the Cure and Prevention of Contagious Fever
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    Citing details of several outbreaks of contagious fever in Edinburgh, advocates the use of fever wards in reducing the spread of infection.

Genre:

Review, Serial

Publications reviewed:

[Lyall?] 1817 [Lyall, William Rowe?] 1817. 'Stewart's Dissertation', Quarterly Review, 17, 39–72
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Subjects:

Metaphysics, Human Species, Psychology, Philosophy, Induction, Gravity, Ethics

People mentioned:

Dugald Stewart, Stewart, Dugald (1753–1828) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Johannes Kepler, Kepler, Johannes (1571–1630) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Thomas Reid, Reid, Thomas (1710–96) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Isaac Newton, Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>René Du P Descartes Descartes, René Du Perron (1596–1650) DSB
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Publications cited:

[Napier] ed. 1815–24, [Napier, Macvey], ed. 1815–24. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: With Preliminary Dissertations on the History of the Sciences, 6 vols, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable; London: Hurst, Robinson & Co.
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Genre:

Letter, News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Degeneration, Animal Behaviour, Crime, Immorality

    Responding to two recently reported criminal cases brought against animals, presents similar instances of animal criminality from the past.

Genre:

Letter, Serial

Subjects:

Dissection, Death, Crime

    Recalls an incident in which, after the hanging of a gypsy for theft, his lover 'put his corpse into hot lime, then buried them [sic], and sat on his grave in a state of intoxication, till his body was rendered unfit for the use of medical gentlemen, it being reported that he was to be taken out of his grave for the purpose of dissection' (285).

Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Mineralogy, Geology, Taxonomy

People mentioned:

Axel F Cronstedt, Cronstedt, Axel Fredrik (1722–65) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Abraham G Werner Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1749–1817) DSB
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    Proposes the classification of minerals into four classes: 'Saline, Earthly, Metallic and Inflammable' (299).

Genre:

Letter

Subjects:

Domestic Economy, Medical Treatment,

    Gives a lengthy account of the history of cookery, 'the most excellent of sciences' (300). Includes accounts of remedies for consumption, wind, and 'the Gripes' (304).

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Metaphysics, Anatomy, Nomenclature, Surgery, Mineralogy

    A wife writes to complain of her husband's interest in anatomy, due to his recent acquaintance of a 'Dr Scalpal'. With reference to his use of Latin or Greek terminology states: 'I believe this divine science, as Scalpal calls it, has completely turned his head. The whole strain of his conversation is changed, as he is perpetually making use of words which no human creature can understand'. Later relates that 'the human body now goes by the name of "the system," the arms are "the superior extremities," or "the organs of apprehension," and the legs are the "inferior extremities," or "the organs of escape"'. Beseeches the editor to publish an article on the subject of anatomy, 'and pray tell him, that when he cuts a slice of bread for me at breakfast he need not take up the knife, and "proceed to operate"'. A postscript relates that Mrs Fig has just been told her diamond ring is 'nothing better than a bit of charcoal!'. (311)

Genre:

Reportage, Literary Gossip

Subjects:

Mineralogy, Geology | Vulcanology | Chemistry | Natural History | Publishing, Zoology, Natural History, Physiology, Comparative Anatomy, Creation | Instruments, Meteorology | Navigation, Invention | Medical Treatment, Instruments | Palaeontology

People mentioned:

Abraham G Werner, Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1749–1817) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>John Murray, Murray, John (1778–1820) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Leopold von Buch, Buch, (Christian) Leopold von (1774–1853) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Robert Jameson, Jameson, Robert (1774–1854) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Humphry Davy, Davy, Sir Humphry, Baronet (1778–1829) DSB ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Jöns J Berzelius, Berzelius, Jöns Jacob (1779–1848) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Louis A Necker, Necker, Louis Albert (1786–1861) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Ami Boué, Boué, Ami (1794–1881) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Johann F Blumenbach, Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich (1752–1840) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Charles Stewart, Stewart, Charles (fl. 1787–1811) WBI
Close   View the register entry >>Joseph L Gay-Lussac, Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis (1778–1850) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>David Brewster, Brewster, Sir David (1781–1868) DSB ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Pierre S, marquis de Laplace Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de (1749–1827) DSB
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Institutions mentioned:

Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh
Close   View the register entry >>University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh
Close   View the register entry >>Geological Society, Geological Society of London
Close   View the register entry >>Institut de France, Paris Institut de France, Paris
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Publications cited:

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783–1900+) BUCOP
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    Laments the lack of a British elementary treatise on zoology to compare with those in France and Germany. States that writers 'must be careful to abstain from all indulgence in the fancies of the anatomists, and the reveries of physiologists, which are only equalled by the extravagancies of those who propound theories of the earth and believe they can tell us how the world was created' (331).

Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Exploration, Meteorology, Natural History, Zoology, Hydrography, Oceanography, Navigation, Climatology

People mentioned:

William Scoresby Scoresby, William, Jr. (1789–1857) ODNB
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Institutions mentioned:

Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh
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Publications cited:

Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society (1808–38) BUCOP
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Genre:

Regular Feature, Reportage

[1] Granite Stratified

[2] Remarkable Stalactites in Iceland

[3] Rocks of Rome not Volcanic

[4] New Opinion in Regard to Pompeii and Herculaneum

[5] Von der Nüll's Cabinet

[6] Claimants of the Doctrine of Formations

[8] Second Volume of Memoirs of the Wernerian Society

[10] Proof of the Increasing Taste for Natural History

[11] Fluor Spar at Gourock

[12] Dr Hibbert's Voyage to Shetland

[13] Cleaveland's Mineralogy

Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Zoology, Natural History, Mineralogy, Palaeontology

People mentioned:

Robert Sibbald, Sibbald, Sir Robert (1641–1722) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Christopher Merrett, Merrett, Christopher (1614–95) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>John Ray, Ray, John (1627–1705) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Francis Willughby, Willughby, Francis (1635–72) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Martin Lister, Lister, Martin (1639–1712) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Thomas Pennant, Pennant, Thomas (1726–98) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>John Berkenhout, Berkenhout, John (1726–91) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus (or von Linné), Carl (1707–78) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Robert Jameson Jameson, Robert (1774–1854) DSB
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    Remarks: 'we at present have no system of British Zoology corresponding to the advanced state of natural history' (381). Later comments that if a zoologist were to write such a text, 'much attention must be bestowed in the arrangement of its subordinate parts. The general subdivisions we would recommend are those of the Linnaean system, as modified by modern discoveries and observations; but we must be careful not to run into those extremes of change, proposed, and even followed by some Zoologists' (382). Offers an outline for such a text. Later suggests: 'the natural history of the various fossil organic remains met with in the strata of the British Isles, ought to form a distinct and separate division' (383).

Genre:

Letter

Subjects:

Libraries, Education, Mathematics, Chemistry

    The signature of the letter is a reference to a character (Bailie Nicol Jarvie) from Walter Scott's Scott, Sir Walter, 1st Baronet (1771–1832) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Rob Roy Scott, Walter 1818. Rob Roy, 3 vols, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.
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Genre:

Letter

Subjects:

Meterology, Instruments

Genre:

Letter

Subjects:

Mesmerism, Medical Practioners, Medical Treatment

People mentioned:

Dr Tritschler Tritschler, Dr (fl. 1818) BE1/2/10/5
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See also:

[Robert Gordon?], 'On the Present State of Animal Magnetism in Germany', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 2 (1817–18), 36–38

Genre:

Reportage, Literary Gossip

Subjects:

Optics | Instruments | Medical Treatment, Disease | Astronomy | Mineralogy | Botany, Physiology | Stratigraphy, Geology | Mineralogy | Steam-power, Mining | Societies, Discovery

People mentioned:

David Brewster, Brewster, Sir David (1781–1868) DSB ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Francis J H Wollaston, Wollaston, Francis John Hyde (1762–1823) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Samuel Hibbert-Ware, Hibbert-Ware, Samuel (1782–1848) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Humphry Davy, Davy, Sir Humphry, Baronet (1778–1829) DSB ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>William Smith, Smith, William (1769–1839) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>William E Leach Leach, William Elford (1791–1836) ODNB
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Publications cited:

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1665–1900+) Waterloo Directory
Close   View the register entry >>Annals of Philosophy Annals of Philosophy (1813–26) Waterloo Directory
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    Reports: 'at a meeting of the Royal Institution Royal Institution of Great Britain
Close   View the register entry >> consisting of Sir Joseph Banks Banks, Sir Joseph (1743–1820) DSB ODNB
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Close   View the register entry >>, Hatchett Hatchett, Charles (1765–1847) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>, Wollaston Wollaston, William Hyde (1766–1828) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>, and Young Young, Thomas (1773–1829) DSB
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Close   View the register entry >> is not the author of the discovery of the fact, that an explosion of inflammable gas will not pass through tube appertures of small dimensions. 2. That Mr G Stephenson was not the first to apply that principle to the construction of a safety lamp, none of the lamps which he made in the year of 1815 having been safe; and there being no evidence even of their being made upon that principle'. Accords sole credit to Humphry Davy for having first applied the discovery to 'the very important purpose of a safety lamp'. (451)

Genre:

Reportage, Literary Gossip

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Disease, Astronomy, Steam-power

Genre:

Review, Serial

Publications reviewed:

Watson 1817 Watson, Richard1814. Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff; Written by Himself at Different Intervals, and Revised in 1814, London: Cadell and Davies
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Subjects:

Chemistry, Universities, Religion, Politics

Genre:

Letter

Subjects:

Mesmerism, Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment

See also:

Robert Gordon?, 'The German Somnabulists and Miss M'Avoy', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 2 (1817–18), 437–43

Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Societies, Lectures, Education, Collecting, Libraries, Laboratories, Universities

People mentioned:

James E Smith, Smith, James Edward (1759–1828) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>John Bostock Bostock, John (1772–1846) DSB
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    Remarks on 'the great expense' of a university education at the universities of Oxford University of Oxford
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Close   View the register entry >> (534). Gives an outline of the plans for an 'institution for the promotion of literature, science and the arts' in Liverpool. This is to be accomplished 'I. By Academical Schools. II. By Public Lectures. III. By the Encouragement of Societies who may unite for similar Objects. IV. By collections of Books, Specimens of Art, Natural History, &c. V. By Providing a Laboratory and Philosophical Apparatus. VI. By Association of the Proprietors'. (535)

Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Mineralogy

People mentioned:

David Brewster Brewster, Sir David (1781–1868) DSB ODNB
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Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Disease, Epidemiology, Hospitals, Lectures

People mentioned:

James Currie, Currie, James (1756–1805) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>William Cullen, Cullen, William (1710–90) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>John Armstrong, Armstrong, John, the elder (1784–1829) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>James Hamilton Hamilton, James (1749–1835) ODNB
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Institutions mentioned:

New Town Dispensary, Edinburgh, New Town Dispensary, Edinburgh
Close   View the register entry >>Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Close   View the register entry >>Edinburgh Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick, Edinburgh Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick
Close   View the register entry >>Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
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Publications cited:

Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany Scots Magazine (1739–1803) Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804–17) Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany (1817–26) Waterloo Directory
Close   View the register entry >>Hamilton 1805 Hamilton, James 1805. Observations on the Utility and Administration of Purgative Medicines in Several Diseases, Edinburgh: James Simpson
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    Reports on the treatment and incidence of typhus in Edinburgh.

Genre:

Review

Publications reviewed:

Hall 1817 Hall, Basil 1817. An Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the Western Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island, in the Japan Sea, in his Majesty's Ship Lyra, London: John Murray
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Subjects:

Exploration, Meteorology, Instruments, Geology, Minearalogy, Anthropology, Language, Human Species

People mentioned:

Basil Hall, Hall, Basil (1788–1844) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>James Hutton Hutton, James (1726–97) DSB
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Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Chemistry, Gas Chemistry, Neurology, Optics, Geology, Mathematics, Time

People mentioned:

John Murray, Murray, John (1778–1820) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Antoine L Lavoisier, Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent (1743–94) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Andrew Ure, Ure, Andrew (1778–1857) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Humphry Davy, Davy, Sir Humphry, Baronet (1778–1829) DSB ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Joseph L Gay-Lussac, Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis (1778–1850) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>David Brewster, Brewster, Sir David (1781–1868) DSB ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Thomas Allan, Allan, Thomas (1777–1833) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> John Playfair, Playfair, John (1748–1819) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Thomas M Brisbane Brisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall, 1st Baronet (1773–1860) ODNB
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Publications cited:

Hall 1817 Hall, Basil 1817. An Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the Western Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island, in the Japan Sea, in his Majesty's Ship Lyra, London: John Murray
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Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Mineralogy, Geology | Natural History, Mineralogy | Engineering, Societies | Mining, Accidents | Steam-power | Exploration | Biogeography, Botany, Taxonomy

People mentioned:

Robert Bakewell , Bakewell, Robert (1768–1843) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>William R Clanny, Clanny, William Reid (1776–1850) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Alexander von Humboldt Humboldt, Alexander von (Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von) (1769–1859) DSB
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Publications cited:

Annals of Philosophy Annals of Philosophy (1813–26) Waterloo Directory
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Genre:

Review

Publications reviewed:

[Shelley] 1818 [Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft] 1818. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus; A Novel, 3 vols, London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor & Jones.
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Subjects:

Science Fiction

People mentioned:

Erasmus Darwin Darwin, Erasmus (1731–1802) DSB
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Genre:

Letter

Subjects:

Universities, Education, Induction, Natural Theology, Botany, Fieldwork, Accidents

    The narrator comments of the teaching he encountered whilst studying with a friend at the University of Glasgow University of Glasgow
Close   View the register entry >>: 'one lamentable consequence of this presumptive system was the effect it had on young men of my own age [...] we reversed the order of induction, and, pretending to follow the works of the Deity as our principle guide, endeavoured to illustrate the revealed will of God by the analogy of nature' (631). Gives an account of the natural history fieldtrip during which his friend 'Campbell' drowns off Jura whilst collecting samples of seaweed (631).

Genre:

Review

Publications reviewed:

Pettigrew 1817 Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph 1817. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Late John Coakley Lettsom, With a Selection from his Correspondence, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
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Subjects:

Botany

Genre:

Regular Feature, Miscellaneous

[2] Changes in The Plummage of Birds

[3] Remarkable Tenuity of the Spiders Thread, &c.

Genre:

Letter

Relevant illustrations:

wdct. [2]

Subjects:

Instruments, Meteorology

People mentioned:

John Leslie, Leslie, Sir John (1766–1832) DSB ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Adam Anderson Anderson, Adam (1780–1846) ODNB
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Publications cited:

Brewster 1808–30 Brewster, David 1808–30. The Edinburgh Encyclopedia: Conducted by David Brewster [...] with the Assistance of Gentlemen Eminent in Science and Literature, 18 vols, Edinburgh: William Blackwood
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Genre:

Essay

Subjects:

Zoology, Natural History

    Give an account of 'the history of the two most remarkable animals which have been described as inhabitants of the ocean' (645). Concedes that 'such accounts are too often imbued with a spirit prone to believe in the most absurd and extravagant fictions, and conveyed through the distorting medium of fear and superstition, yet it may safely be averred, from what has already been ascertained, that they are for the most part founded in truth' (645). Later states: 'It appears, in fact, to be a law of nature, that all animals of extraordinary magnitude produce much fewer young than those of inferior dimensions; at least, the elephant, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, and the giraffe, are among the least prolific of the race of quadrupeds, and the whale and the walrus are probably even more sparingly multiplied. We need scarcely wonder then, that so few instances have occurred of a nature sufficiently positive to dispel all doubts of the existence of sea-animals' (647–48).

Genre:

Review, Serial

Publications reviewed:

Watson 1817 Watson, Richard1814. Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff; Written by Himself at Different Intervals, and Revised in 1814, London: Cadell and Davies
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Subjects:

Chemistry, Universities, Religion, Politics

Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Chemistry, Geology, Instruments, Optics

People mentioned:

John Murray, Murray, John (1778–1820) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Thomas L Dick, Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick, 7th baronet (formerly Thomas Lauder Dick) (1784–1848) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> John Leslie, Leslie, Sir John (1766–1832) DSB ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>David Brewster Brewster, Sir David (1781–1868) DSB ODNB
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Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Gas Chemistry | Physical Geography, Physics, | Gas Chemistry, Chemistry | Mineralogy | Light | Sound, Physics | Zoology, Animal Behaviour, Entomology | Magnetism, Navigation | Exploration, Navigation, Meteorology | Universities | Mineralogy | Exploration | Natural History | Chemistry | Agriculture

People mentioned:

Humphry Davy, Davy, Sir Humphry, Baronet (1778–1829) DSB ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Henry Kater, Kater, Henry (1777–1835) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Pierre S, marquis de Laplace, Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de (1749–1827) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Andrew Ure, Ure, Andrew (1778–1857) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>John Murray, Murray, John (1778–1820) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Edward D Clarke, Clarke, Edward Daniel (1769–1822) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Jöns J Berzelius, Berzelius, Jöns Jacob (1779–1848) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>David Brewster, Brewster, Sir David (1781–1868) DSB ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>Marc-Auguste Pictet, Pictet, Marc-Auguste (1752–1825) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Alexander von Humboldt, Humboldt, Alexander von (Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von) (1769–1859) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Georges Cuvier, Cuvier, Georges (1769–1832) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>Henry C Jennings Jennings, Henry Constantine (1731–1819) ODNB
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Publications cited:

Annals of Philosophy Annals of Philosophy (1813–26) Waterloo Directory
Close   View the register entry >>Cuvier1827–35 Cuvier, Georges 1827–35. The Animal Kingdom: Arranged in Conformity with its Organization, with Additional Descriptions of All the Species Hitherto Named, and of Many Not before Noticed, by Edward Griffith [...] and Others, 16 vols, London: G. B. Whittaker
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    Reports the discovery of an 'animal flower' in St Lucia that lives in rock pools within caves (701).