James Wilson

(1795-1856)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wilson, James, 1795-1856 NRA: Wilson James (1795-1856) Zoologist DNB: Wilson, James (1795-1856), zoologist LBT ID: JaWilso1856 VIAF ID: 74633957 LOC ID: nr93049685	B/BAP: 1795-11 DIED: 1856-05-18
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Scottish naturalist, the younger brother of “Christopher North”; he was educated at Edinburgh University, contributed to Blackwood"s Magazine, and published Illustrations of Zoology (1831) and other works.
REFERENCES TO James Wilson: Hogg, James, 1770-1835, “Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 89-96 Found 2: ¶ 81 ¶ 177 John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson, 20 April 1843 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 16: 1832-36 Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter 18: 1837-43