Journal Geol. Soc. xi_ 38–41 (1855); _Proc. Linnean Soc. ii_
306–9 (1855); _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _iv_ (1833),
_portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _iii_
126–27, _portrait_.
JAMESON, ROBERT WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Leith
1805; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; a writer to the
signet in Edin.; an original member of reformed town council
of Edin. 1832; the best hustings speaker of his time; edited
Wigtownshire Free Press at Stranraer 1855–61; his tragedy
Timoleon 2 ed. 1852 was produced at the T.R. Edin.; proprietor
of a newspaper at Sudbury 1861, then in residence in London;
author of Nimrod, a poem 1848; The curse of gold, a novel 1854.
_d._ 12 Earl’s Court terrace, Kensington, London 10 Dec. 1868.
_Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Feb. 1869 pp._ 124–5.
JAMESON, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Jameson, writer to the signet).
_b._ Edinburgh 3 Oct. 1796; ed. at univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S.
Edin. 17 Feb. 1818; surgeon at Guayaquil, Peru 1822–6, at Quito
1826–7; professor of chemistry and botany in univ. of Quito
1827–32; assayer to the mint, Quito 1832, director 1861 to Nov.
1869; joined Church of Rome; created a caballero of Spain by
Queen Isabella 1867; sent to England many new species of plants,
among which species of anemone, gentian and the moss Dicranum
bear his name; a genus of ferns is also called Jamesonia; author
of Synopsis plantarum Æquatoriensium 2 vols. and part i. of vol.