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Last Name Nicol

Given Name James

alt. Names J. N. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1810 in Traquair near Innerleithen, Peeblesshire

Year died 1879

Place of death

Father's occupation Rev. James Nicol (1769-1819), minister of Traquair; acquired celebrity as a poet

Relatives

Education studies at Univ. Edinburgh (with Robert Jameson 1825-27) and at Univ. Bonn and Univ. Berlin.

Country of Activity Scotland, UK

Worked for J. N.: Manual of Mineralogy (1849), Elements of Mineralogy (1858, 2nd ed., 1873), Geological Map of Scotland (1858), Geology & Scenery of the North of Scotland (1866) ;

Patronage Geological Society of London (secr. 1846) ; Queen's College, Cork (prof. f. geology since 1849) ; Univ. Aberdeen (Prof. f. Natural History since 1853)

Collaborators geologist ->Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) and map-maker ->Alexander Keith Johnston (1804-1871) on Geological map of Europe (1856) & Geological Map of Scotland (1846) ;

Techniques geological, cartographical, and mineralogical drawing and engraving, map-making ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) www.davidrumsey.com/maps940029-24690.html ; http://maps.nls.uk/scotland/detail.cfm?id=1347 ;

Archival sources

Published sources H. Chisholm in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) ; DNB ;

other J. N. became professor for geology at Queen's College, Cork in 1849 and Professor for Natural History at the University of Aberdeen in 1853.

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