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[https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2096&type=P John Young] The University of Glasgow Story | |||
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| 1835 | Born at Edinburgh. Educated at Edinburgh High School and University. |
| 1857 | Took M.D. degree. |
| Became resident physician in the Infirmary for about a year; then joined staff of Royal Edinburgh Asylum. | |
| 1861 | Joined Scottish Geological Survey. |
| Undertook re-survey of Fife and the Lothians for purposes of “drift” mapping. Transferred to Peebleshire, mapped area around Upper Tweed. | |
| Then stationed in St. Andrews to assist in new survey of Ochils. Memoir: “East Lothian” (1866) with Howell and Geikie. | |
| 1866 | Resigned from Survey. |
| Appointed to Chair of Natural History at Glasgow (held for 36 years). In addition to zoological work, lectured on Geology and was Keeper of the Hunterian Museum. |
Biographies and obituaries
Obituary - John Young, LL.D., F.G.S. Born 1823, died 13th March 1900. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 7 p.382-384. 1900
Teall, J.J.H. Obituary - John Young, LL.D. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 57 p.lxi. 1901
History of the Geological Society of Glasgow (1908) p. 210
John Young (professor of natural history) — Wikipedia article
John Young The University of Glasgow Story
Publications
Chief geological work in palaeontology and glacial geology. Wide knowledge in biology, geology, history, philosophy and anthropology – shown in paper to Glasgow Geological Society From geology to history.
Published text-books for schools on physical geography (1874).
Paper for the Transactions Geological Society Glasgow: On some points in surface geology of South highlands.
Paper for the Transactions Geological Society Glasgow: Local unconformity in sections near Bishopbriggs.
Paper for the Transactions Geological Society Glasgow: Some points in geological terminology
Paper for the Transactions Geological Society Glasgow: On mammalian remains from Cresswell Crag bone caves.
Paper for the Transactions Geological Society Glasgow: A.C. Ramsay.