William Gourlie
1815–56
Scottish merchant and botanist. Partner in the merchant house William Gourlie & Son, 8 South Frederick Street, Glasgow. Collected mosses, shells, and fossil plants. An active member of the Glasgow Philosophical Society; local secretary in Glasgow for the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. A local secretary for the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Glasgow in 1855.
Sources
Imperial directory of universal biography
Modern English biography
Post Office Glasgow directory 1839–40.
Bibliography
Imperial directory of universal biography: The imperial directory of universal biography: comprising a series of original memoirs of distinguished men, of all ages and all nations. Edited by John Francis Waller. 3 vols. London: William Mackenzie. [1857–63.]
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
Post Office Glasgow directory: The Glasgow Post-office directory … a street directory and an appendix. Glasgow: Post Office. 1839. Post Office Glasgow directory … with an appendix containing general and local information. Glasgow: Post Office; William Mackenzie. 1863–1900.
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