Education
After receiving his early education at Edinburgh Academy, he entered as a medical student at the university in that city, and subsequently studied chemistry and mineralogy at Klausthal and Freiburg.
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Hardcover reprint of the original 1901 edition, Volume 2; hardbound in brown cloth with gold stamped lettering, 8vo - 6x9". This item is printed on demand as a collector quality facsimile, crafted to hold its own in a library of first editions. Book Information: Heddle, Matthew Forster . The Mineralogy Of Scotland. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2016. Original Publishing: Heddle, Matthew Forster .. The Mineralogy Of Scotland.. Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1901. Subject: Mineralogy Scotland
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After receiving his early education at Edinburgh Academy, he entered as a medical student at the university in that city, and subsequently studied chemistry and mineralogy at Klausthal and Freiburg.
In 1851 he took his degree of Doctor of Medicine at Edinburgh, and for about five years practised there. In the 1850s, together with Patrick Dudgeon, he undertook a survey of the Faroe Islands also collecting many minerals. This was followed by similar survey expeditions to the Shetland Islands and Orkney.
They co-founded the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain in 1876.
Medical work, however, possessed for him little attraction. He became an assistant to Professor
Connell, who held the chair of chemistry at Street Andrews, and in 1862 succeeded him as professor This post he held until in 1880 he was invited to report on some gold mines in South Africa.
On his return he devoted himself with great assiduity to mineralogy, and formed one of the finest collections by means of personal exploration in almost every part of Scotland.
His specimens are now in the Royal Scottish Museum at Edinburgh. lieutenant had been his intention to publish a comprehensive work on the mineralogy of Scotland. This he did not live to complete, but the manuscripts fell into able hands, and The Mineralogy of Scotland, in 2 vols, edited by JG Goodchild, was issued in 1901.
Heddle was one of the founders of the Mineralogical Society, and he contributed many articles on Scottish minerals, and on the geology of the northern parts of Scotland, to the Mineralogical Magazine, as well as to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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He was a keen amateur mountaineer and one of the first honorary members of the Scottish Mountaineering Club.