Scottish naval surgeon and amateur botanist
James Robinson Scott FRSE FLS PRMS (died 1821) was an 18th/19th century Scottish naval surgeon and amateur botanist. He served as Senior President of the Royal Medical Society 1818/19.
Life
He was born in Edinburgh around 1763.
He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and later lectured in botany there.[ 1] Royal Navy , serving throughout the Napoleonic Wars .
He reappears in Edinburgh in 1818 living at 18 St Patrick Square.[ 2]
In 1819 he joined the Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh alongside his colleague Dr Walter Oudney and Henry Dewar , Robert Kaye Greville and George Dunbar .[ 3]
In 1820 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . His proposers were Prof George Dunbar , Robert Jameson and Patrick Neill .[ 4] [ 5] London on 29/30 August 1821.[ 6]
Family
His wife Margaret died in Hertford in 1857, aged 87.[ 7]
Publications
Observations on the Character and Writings of the Late William Royston FLS (1817)Herbarium Edinense: Dried Specimens of Plants Growing Chiefly in the Edinburgh Area (1819) co-written with Dr William Jameson [ 8]
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