Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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JAMESON. 1. After Robert Jameson (1774–1854), of Leith, Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh. Derivs. (1) jamesoni(i), in Zool. as a specif. name for a Sphaerostoma, or gastropod of the Tritonia family (1843 W. Macgillivray Hist. Mollusc. Abd. 336), Larus, a gull of Tasmania (1830 J. Wilson Illust. Zool. xxiii.), Dendroaspis or Elaps, an African tree-snake or mamba (1843 T. S. Traill in Edb. New Philosoph. Jnl. XXXIV. 54), and for a various fossils Ammonites, Platygnathus, etc.; (2) jamesonite, in Geol., lead iron antimony sulphide (1825 F. Mohs Treatise on Mineralogy I. 451), first described by Jameson in 1820.
2. After William Jameson (1796–1873), of Edinburgh, traveller in Greenland and in Ecuador. Derivs. Jamesonia, in Bot., a genus of tropical fern from S. America (1831 Hooker & Greville Icon. Filicum II. 178); jamesonii, specif. name of an Oreotrochilus, or humming bird from the Andes (1849 W. Jardine Contrib. Ornithol. II. 67), also a Gallinago or snipe from S. America (1855 Bonaparte in Comptes Rendus XLI. 660).
