Queen Margaret College Medical Club : opening lecture, session 1896-97 : "members of the medical profession in Glasgow of wide celebrity" / by James Finlayson.

  • Finlayson, James, 1840-1906.
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[1897?]
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Credit: Queen Margaret College Medical Club : opening lecture, session 1896-97 : "members of the medical profession in Glasgow of wide celebrity" / by James Finlayson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THOMAS THOMSON. 1773—185i—Born at Crieff. —Educated at Stirling, St. Andrews, and Edinburgh.—| M.D. Edin., 1799.—Lecturer on Chemistry in Edinburgh, 1800-11.—Member of Glasgow Faculty, 1820.—F.R.S., 1811.—Lecturer, 1817, and Professor of Chemistry in Glasgow University, 1818-52.—Physician to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 1820-21.—Introduced the use of symbols in chemistry, , PRiNCiPAii Works.—Editor of third edition of Encyclo- pjEdia Britannica from 1796.— System of Chemistry, 4 vols., 1802, seventh edition, 1831; and Vegetable and Animal Bodies, 1838, 1843,— Elements of Chemistry, 1810.—History of the Royal Society, 1812.—An Attempt to Establish the First Principles of Chemistry by Experiment, 2 vols., 1825.— History of Chemistry, 2 vols., 1830.— Outlines of Mineralogy, 2 vols., 1836.—Started and edited Annals of Philosophy, 1813-22. — Numerous papers in journals and transactions (see catalogue of scientific publications compiled by the Royal Society). Referknces. — Chambers, Biographical Dictionary, 1870.—Glasgow Medical Journal [a long account of his life and works], April and July, 1857.—Duncan, Memorials of the Glasgow Faculty, 1896. - Marble bust and portrait in oil in the jrooms of thq Philosophical Society, Glasgow; also an engraving there, * and in the Hunterian Library, Glasgow.—Engraving in Chambers'Biographical Dictionary, 1870.