William McGillivray (1796-1852) - British naturalist and ornithologist .
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Biography
Born in Old Aberdeen, but raised on Harris Island. After returning to Aberdeen until 1815, he studied medicine [2] . He became an assistant to Robert Jameson , then the curator of the museum, and later a professor.
He died in Aberdeen , buried in Edinburgh .
49 years after the scientist’s death, his namesake published a detailed biography of William McGillivray [3] .
Family
In 1820 he married Marion Askill from the island of Harris [4] . Their son, John, was a naturalist at HMS Rattlesnake and published a report on a round-the-world trip aboard this ship. Another son, Paul, published Aberdeen Flora in 1853 and donated 214 drawings of his father to the Natural History Museum .
Works
- Lives of Eminent Zoologists from Aristotle to Linnaeus (1830)
- A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants (1830)
- The Travels and Researches of Alexander von Humboldt. (1832)
- A History of British Quadrupeds (1838)
- A Manual of Botany, Comprising Vegetable Anatomy and Physiology (1840)
- A History of the Molluscous Animals of Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine (1843)
- A Manual of British Ornithology (1840-1842)
- A History of British Birds, indigenous and migratory , in five volumes (1837-1852)
- Natural History of Deeside and Braemar (1855), published posthumously.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Waterston, Charles D. Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index / Charles D Waterston, A Macmillan Shearer. - Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh , July 2006. - Vol. I. - ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5 . Archived October 4, 2006 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ MacGillivray, William. A Memorial Tribute to William MacGillivray . Private publication, 1901.
- ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 . - The Royal Society of Edinburgh, July 2006 .-- ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
Links
- " Macgillivray, William ", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911
- Biography at Natural History Museum
- C. Michael Hogan (2009). Hooded Crow: Corvus cornix , GlobalTwitcher.com, ed, N. Stromberg
- William MacGillivray (1901). A memorial tribute to William MacGillivray, ornithologist , Edinburgh
- William McGillivray in the Gutenberg Project
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- BHL Works by William MacGillivray online
- De Avibus Historiae: MacGillivray by Alberto Masi