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John Walker | |
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Walker1842Largeb.jpg) Rev Dr John Walker, Edinburgh's Professor of Natural History | |
| Born | 1731 Canongate, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | 31 December 1803 |
| Education | Canongate Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh (DD; MD) |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh; moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland |
| Notable work | Schediasma Fossilium (1781) Delineato Fossilium (1782) Classes Fossilium: Sive Characteres Naturales et Chymici Classium et Ordinum in Systemate Minerali (1787) Institutes of Natural History (1792) An economical history of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland (1808) Essays on Natural History and Rural Economy (1812) |
| Spouse | Jane Wallace Wauchope (m. 1789; d. 1827) |
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John Walker FRSE (1731–1803) was a Scottish minister and natural historian. He was Regius Professor of Natural history at the University of Edinburgh from 1779 to 1803. He was joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783 and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1790.