James Smith of Jordanhill
1782–1867
Scottish geologist and biblical historian. Sleeping partner in the firm of West India merchants Leitch & Smith. Member of the geological societies of Glasgow, London, and France. A pioneer of post-Tertiary geology in Scotland; first to prove that a colder climate preceded the present one. President of Anderson’s University, Glasgow (later University of Strathclyde), 1830–9. Author of The voyage and shipwreck of St Paul (1848). FRS 1830.
Sources
ODNB
Record of the Royal Society of London
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.
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