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	John Walker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Walker (1826-1885), cricketer and the eldest brother of the Walkers of Southgate.
		John Walker (inventor), inventor of the friction match, in 1827.
		John Walker (naturalist) (1731–1803), Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Walker (359 words)

	John Walker (naturalist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Walker, MD, DD Revd Dr John Walker (1730–1803) was Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh from 1779 to 1803.
		Under Cullen's patronage, Walker further distinguished himself as a chemist and a mineralogist and this led him to function as a scientific advisor for Lord Bute, Lord Hopetoun, Lord Cathcart, and Judge Advocate Lord Kames.
		Walker's natural history lectures spanned the academic year and were divided into two sections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Walker_(naturalist) (800 words)

	Walker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name comes from the medieval profession of a ‘walker’- a person who trod on woollen clothes in a bath of urine in order to wash them.
		Walker, John Anthony, (born 1937) American sailor and Soviet spy
		Walker, Joseph Albert, (1921-1966), American Air Force rocket-plane test pilot; in the X-15 set world altitude records; winner of international and USAF astronauts wings
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walker (331 words)

	! Hall of Fame
		John McDonald, in The Origins of Angling, summed up her story this way: "She was, as the legend goes, noble in birth and spirit, sociable, solitary, dashing, beautiful, learned, and intellectual.
		John Johnston’s significant contributions to recreational angling can be divided into two parts: his fishing achievements and his administrative achievements.
		John Johnston has devoted much of his time and energies to IGFA as well, serving as Australian Representative from 1979 to 1990 and as a member of the IGFA Board of Trustees for 12 years, from 1990 to 2002.
	www.igfa.org /hall.asp (19153 words)

	Robert Brown
		British botanist, born on the 21st of December 1773 at Montrose, and was educated at the grammar school of his native town, where he had as contemporaries Joseph Hume and James Mill.
		In 1795 he obtained a commission in the Forfarshire regiment of Fencible Infantry as "ensign and assistant surgeon", and served in the north of Ireland.
		In 1798 he made the acquaintance of Sir Joseph Banks, by whom in 1801 he was offered the post of naturalist to the expedition fitted out under Captain Matthew Flinders for the survey of the then almost unknown coasts of Australia.
	www.nndb.com /people/050/000100747 (507 words)

	Missing Links
		Walker admired his mentor, John Napier, who had hurriedly been trained to be a hand surgeon just before World War II and had later focused his research on the evolution of the human hand.
		Walker now stares at the stony face of Nariokotome boy, not with a smug grin, but with a look of reverence for what he has been taught.
		Alan Walker, Ph.D., is distinguished professor of biology and anthropology in the College of the Liberal Arts and the Eberly College of Science, 315 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA 16802; 814-865-0796; axw8@psu.edu.
	www.rps.psu.edu /sep98/missing.html (2274 words)

	Walker \| John \| 1731-1803 \| professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman
		John Walker became interested in botany at an early age, but this was not his only scientific interest: "I began to collect minerals in the year 1746" he later wrote.
		The Hebrides were poor and undeveloped and Walker was selected by Lord Kames to highlight the problems in an attempt to improve the situation, being at the same time commissioned to make a report to the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge.
		Walker was appointed regius professor of natural history at the University of Edinburgh in 1779 while also continuing his pastoral duties at Moffat.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0351.html (579 words)

	NAHSTE: Navigational Aids for the History of Science Technology & the Environment
		Walker began making tours by himself and with Cullen to the nearby seaside and into the surrounding lowland environs to obtain "fossil" samples.
		Walker's tours, connections to the landed class and correspondence strengthened his reputation as a natural historian.
		Walker's name was also known on account of his vast foreign correspondence.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /research/walker.html (788 words)

	ROBERT JAMESON - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT JAMESON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		(1774-1854), Scottish naturalist and mineralogist, was born at Leith on the nth of July 1774.
		He became assistant to a surgeon in his native town; but, having studied natural history under Dr John Walker in 1792 and 1793, he felt that his true province lay in that science.
		In 1804 he succeedec Dr Walker as regius professor of natural history in Edinburgh university, and became perhaps the first eminent exponent in Great Britain of the Wernerian geological system; but when he found that theory untenable, he frankly announced his conversion to the views of Hutton.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JA/JAMESON_ROBERT.htm (310 words)

	Woodstock Times
		John sang those lines, the chorus to his achingly beautiful paean to Martha, the last of the Passenger Pigeons, must have been thousands of times.
		Despite those lyrics, John Herald was not a fool from a one horse town.
		John came back to Woodstock, "hoping to become another Bob Dylan and found out that I was not a songwriter, that I had to work very hard at it.
	ulsterpublishing.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=348990 (2905 words)

	Primary Opinion
		John Glenn reported having an emotional experience seeing the Earth from orbit once again; other astronauts have felt the same thing.
		As should be abundantly clear by now, a seventy-seven year-old man like John Glenn cannot be considered truly old-for one human life is naught but a blink of the eye.
		That’s why Senator John Stennis of Mississippi, for example, could bargain with the Nixon Administration to assist in delaying implementation of public school desegregation—a clear violation of federal law.
	primaryopinion.blogspot.com (18711 words)

	First Arkansas State Park - History of Petit Jean State Park
		The ocean was crossed in early spring; the vessel ascended the Mississippi River to the Arkansas River, to the foot of the mountain.
		John Walker was a farmer from North Carolina.
		John Walker built a simple log cabin for his family, which today stands at the entrance to the Cedar Creek trail, as a testament to the hardihood of the state's pioneers.
	www.petitjeanstatepark.com /history (1467 words)

	The Waltons Episode Guide: Season 5
		John says he is looking forward to playing horseshoes, sitting out under the tree drinking lemonade with Olivia, playing baseball with the kids, pushing Olivia in a swing, and taking a nap on the porch.
		John and Olivia give their permission but tell Erin that, 'you make sure the people you work for know you are a lady'.
		John said he wanted to keep his name alive and, like his son Ben, John’s brother had red hair, and was smart and full of ideas.
	www.the-waltons.com /season5.html (20350 words)

	GWalker Dedication-Lauren Interess Observatory
		She extended her field of interest from rocks and minerals upwards to the stars, all part of a naturalist world, both of which disciplines use some kind of a magnifying instrument to better understand their properties.
		John Keller, when he sits at the computer this afternoon and shows us some of the images in the computer, will make it look easy.
		I can't describe what a high moment it was on the morning of Tuesday October 5, when John Keller and I were discussing ways to remember Lauren and the shared idea that we had that part of the of the lower-telescope-site program that involves taking CCD images in this auditorium should be named after Lauren.
	www.rememberlauren.com /obs2.shtml (745 words)

	Amazon.com: The Art of Seeing Things: Books: John Burroughs,Charlotte Zoe Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An American essayist and naturalist, Burroughs wrote 28 books between 1867 and 1922; his career was a product of turn-of-the-last-century America's desire for a steady diet of nature writing.
		Charlotte Walker, a professor of English at the State University of New York at Oneonta, has gathered selections from Burroughs's vast oeuvre and assembled them in a handsome volume.
		Burroughs is often remembered as a naturalist, but he was much more than that: a perceptive and accessible literary critic, a philosopher, a radical thinker who advocated the overthrow of traditional religions in favor of an open-eyed nature worship steeped in science and wonder.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0815606788?v=glance (844 words)

	Historical and Literary Analyses, John Muir Bibliography - John Muir Exhibit
		The Life and Letters of John Muir is included here, as well as under biographies, because this work by Muir's literary executor, William Frederic Badè's work is comprised of extensive extracts from Muir's unfinished autobiography and extensive excerpts of Muir's letters.
		A scholarly analysis of John Muir's Youth, from age three in Scotland, to his early years in Yosemite in his early thirties.
		A collection of essays derived from the fifth John Muir Conference hosted by the John Muir Center at the University of the Pacific, held in 2001 at the Feather River Inn.
	www.sierraclub.org /john_muir_exhibit/bibliographic_resources/john_muir_bibliography/history.html (1587 words)

	California Academy of Sciences' Spring & Summer 2003 Course Catalog
		A field ornithologist and naturalist, she has studied the Bay Area’s nesting herons and egrets since 1993.
		John McCosker is the senior scientist and chair of Aquatic Biology at the Academy and was the director of the Steinhart Aquarium for more than 22 years.
		John Frederick Walker is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Sports Afield, Forbes, as well as numerous other magazines.
	www.calacademy.org /education/course_catalog/spring_summer_2003/faculty.htm (2260 words)

	Manuscripts Guide -- W
		Walker, Professor at the University of Edinburgh, writes on mineralogy, the "vegetable kingdom" (botany, fructification, etc.), and the animal kingdom (zoology, ornithology, generation of animals, etc.).
		Included are letters about Wistar written to John Vaughan by Catherine Bache Wistar, Elizabeth Wistar, and others; also the printed eulogiums on Wistar by William Tilghman and Charles Caldwell, and newspaper clippings about his death.
		As a junior and senior at Princeton in 1857-1858, John Howard Wurts was enrolled in the two semester sequence of courses on natural philosophy taught by the astronomer Stephen Alexander.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/w.htm (4208 words)

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		Henry, Speaker of the House of Commons Arden, John, Esq.
		Three store-ships, the Golden Grove, Fishburn, and Borrowdale, for carrying provisions and stores for two years; including instruments of husbandry, clothing for the troops and convicts, and other necessaries; and lastly, six transports, the Scarborough, and Lady Penrhyn, from Portsmouth; the Friendship, and Charlotte, from Plymouth; the Prince of Wales, and the Alexander, from Woolwich.
		His death was occasioned by wounds which he received in the unfortunate rencounter at the Navigator's Islands.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/15100/15100-8.txt (16752 words)

	Amazon.com: Field Guide To Grasshoppers, Katydids, And Crickets Of The United States: Books: John L. Capinera,Ralph D. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Scott is a biologist and scientific illustrator; Capinera and Walker are professors of entomology and nematology at the University of Florida and have spent long hours in the fields differentiating the pygmy spurthroated grasshopper from the round-winged spurthroated grasshopper.
		John L. Capinera, Ralph D. Scott, and Thomas J. Walker designed their book for amateur naturalists who wish to know the local fauna, for students who seek to identify insects as part of entomology and natural history courses, and for professional biologists who need to identify invertebrates.
		John Capinera et al., have now produced a beautiful guide a selection of the U. species to the true Orthoptera (minus walkingsticks, mantids, and cockroaches) that will serve as an good introduction.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801489482?v=glance (2452 words)

	John Burroughs - Hope Farm Press
		John Burroughs, the genial and tremendously popular author of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, has gained renewed appreciation at the end of the twentieth century.
		From 1915 to 1924 the three industry leaders and the wold's foremost naturalist (until Burrough's death) took 8 camping trips together - to California, New England, the Southern Appalachians, Maryland, Michigan and, of course, the Catskill Mountains of New York State.
		John Burroughs -- naturalist, ornithologist, author, poet and teacher -- is perhaps best remembered today as one of the earliest and most articulate pioneers of our modern conservation movement.
	www.hopefarm.com /burrows.htm (1057 words)

	Preserves Owned or Managed by Natural Area Preservation Association (NAPA)
		John Walker Preserve (Houston County) is a 3-acre inholding of bottomland forest surrounded by Big Slough Wilderness and the Neches River.
		This tract was donated by the late John Walker, a lifelong East Texas resident.
		The ranch is preserved by a conservation easement donated by landowner and naturalist Dorothy Mattiza in 2001.
	www.napa-texas.org /preservelist.html (2904 words)

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		Fall 1963 Photo by Tom Walker TC-367 #124 Snow slide covering road between campground and visitors center, March 14, 1964 TC-368 #125 Snow slide filling river bed after crossing road, March 14, 1964 TC-370 #126 Naturalist Truck in the river.
		Aug. 13, 1965 Photo by Tom Walker TC-674 #151 Cross bedding in quartizite at sit of dam, Swinging Bridge Canyon Nov. 18, 1965 Photo by Tom Walker Tc-687 #152 Rocks that fell on trail from blasting above in the widening of the trial.
		Lower end of monument, Spring of 1937 or 1938 Photo by Thomas A. Walker Scenic #2 #223 Bridge across river before the retaining walls along the banks were built.
	www.lib.utah.edu /spc/photo/reg/p315.prg (4295 words)

	Amazon.com: A Certain Curve of Horn: The Hundred-Year Quest for the Giant Sable Antelope of Angola: Books: John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Walker creates a detailed portrait all the way from the early colonization of Angola by the Portuguese in the mid-1400s to the building of railroads in the early 1900s, independence of sorts in 1975, the horrific, 25-year-long civil war, and the current struggles of a long-impoverished people.
		Walker, a freelance journalist, weaves a surprisingly fascinating story around one animal, involving colonialism, revolution, biology, and politics, both within the scientific process and the government of an unstable nation, resulting in an epic story that is hard to put down.
		Walker manages to make you care for a magnificent animal that like the country it symbolizes, is a tough survivor.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0871138581?v=glance (1375 words)

	Timeline of Events
		Charles Darwin (naturalist) sails on "H.M.S. Beagle" to South America, New Zealand, and Australia (he originated the theory of evolution).
		Former President, John Quincy Adams, successfully defended them before the Southerner-dominated Supreme Court, and they were allowed to return Africa.
		Anti-slavery zealot, John Brown, and 21 followers seize the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (October 16th); Colonel Robert E. Lee captures John Brown (October 18th); John Brown is hanged for treason in Charleston (December 2nd).
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/JACOBS/hj-timeline.htm (3068 words)

	ELT Index IV
		"John Buchan and the Path of the Keen," 29:3 (1986), 277-86.
		John Buchan: A Memoir (London: Buchan and Enright, 1982), 26:4 (1983), 329-31.
		John Gray: Poet, Dandy, and Priest (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1991), 35:4 (1992), 463-66.
	www.uncg.edu /eng/elt/index1.htm (10458 words)

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		Pery, Rev. John Prince and Cook, booksellers, Oxford, 6 copies Patterson, Captain Phillips, Mr.
		John, architect Smith and Gardner, booksellers Simmons and Kerby, booksellers, Canterbury Swinney, Mr.
		John Thomas, M. Thomson, Rev. Doctor, Kensington Temple, Grenville, Esq.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/15100/15100.txt (16727 words)

	Scots and Scots Descendants - U-Z
		He had extensive real estate holdings in Illinois and, with John Wentworth lined up northeastern congressmen who were also being pressured by powerful home-district investors in Chicago holdings the passage of the Douglas Plan for a government land grant for the railroad to run from Cairo to Chicago.
		She was eighth in descent from John Whitney of Watertown, MA, a family that has 64 quarterings, with nobility and royalty on its shield.
		Son of John and Grace (Glass) Wilson; M.A., Edinburgh Univ. 1885, M.B. and C.M. student universities of Vienna and Berlin 1890-1; married Lilias Almers of Dublin, Ireland 1900.
	www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/Names-U-Z.htm (8518 words)

	JAMESON, ROBERT (1774-... - Online Information article about JAMESON, ROBERT (1774-... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		ROBERT (1774-1854), Scottish naturalist and mineralogist, was See also:
		Walker in 1792 and 1793, he See also:
		PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /INV_JED/JAMESON_ROBERT_1774_1854_.html (362 words)

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