James Simpson Grant Wilson

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Date	Details
1855	Born June 2nd. Educated at St. Andrews University. While there carries out series of analyses on minerals under Heddle.
1876	Joined Geological Survey as Assistant Geologist.
	First field mapping under Peach and Jack in Eskdale and Liddesdale.
	Later mapped large areas of crystalline schists in Banffshire, North East Aberdeenshire, Central Perthshire near Ben Nevis and parts of Knapdale Plateau in Argyll.
	While in Perth made series of soundings in Lochs Tay, Earn and Tummel, results published in Scottish Geographic Magazine (1888).
	Undertook revision of Fife Coalfield and examination of new mines and bores. (Services acknowledged by Geikie in memoirs on East and Central Fife).
	Paper in ?? Geol. Mag. - Tay Valley.
	Made analyses of volcanic rocks – some published in “Ancient Volcanoes” and in the North West Highlands memoir.
	Made analyses also of Carboniferous limestones from Midland Valley.
1901	Promoted to Geologist.
1908	Died December 29th.

Biographies and obituaries

Obituary - J.S. Grant Wilson. Born 2nd June 1855, died 29th December 1908. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 6 p.91-92. 1909

Publications

Memoir, in part – Ben Nevis (1916)

Memoir, in part – Lower Strathspey (1902)

Memoir, in part – Central Coalfield of Scotland Area VII (1920).

Memoir: North Aberdeenshire and East Banff (1882)

Memoir, in part – Edinburgh (1910)

Memoir, in part – Central Aberdeenshire (1890)

Memoir, in part – Oil Shales of the Lothians (1912)

Memoir, in part – Oban (1908)

Memoir, in part – Seaborad of Mid-Argyll (1909)

Memoir, in part – Knapdale and Jura (1911)

Memoir, in part – ; Blair Atholl (1905)

Memoir, in part – Glasgow (1911)