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MacGillivray was born in Old Aberdeen and brought up on the island of Harris.
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In 1832, William MacGillivray published this abridged version of the explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804, which had appeared in a seven-volume English translation between 1814 and 1829. MacGillivray's edition, intended for the general public, also includes Humboldt's accounts of his explorations of the Ural Mountains and Caspian Sea. Humboldt became a major figure in physical geography as a result of his arduous five-year trip to explore Central and South America. This book offers a brief biographical sketch of the scientist and covers his exciting journeys from the Island of Tenerife across the Atlantic Ocean to Caracas, and up the Orinoco River by canoe. Humboldt fights mosquitoes in dense rain forests and climbs Andean peaks in Peru without mountain gear, taking detailed notes at every stage.
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Excerpt from Withering's British Plants: The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain Lyrate, Lyn-shaped (pl. 5. F. Cut transversely into several oblong segments, with the terminal segment rounded and larger than the others. Runcinate (pl. 5. F. A leaf having numerous segments, which are pointed and directed backwards. Pectinate or comb-like (pl. 6. F. With the segments very narrow. I Cleft (pl. 5. F. When the margins of the segments are straight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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MacGillivray was born in Old Aberdeen and brought up on the island of Harris.
William MacGillivray returned to Aberdeen where he attended King"s College, graduating Master of Arts in 1815. He studied medicine, but did not complete the course.
In 1823 William MacGillivray became assistant to Robert Jameson, the Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh. He was curator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1831, resigning in 1841 to become Professor of Natural History at Marischal College, Aberdeen. He died in Aberdeen and was buried in Edinburgh"s New Calton Cemetery.
Audubon named MacGillivray"s warbler for him.
MacGillivray"s eldest son, John MacGillivray (1822-1867), published an account of the voyage round the world of HMS Rattlesnake, to which he was the onboard naturalist. Another son, Paul, published an Aberdeen Flora in 1853, and donated 214 of his father"s paintings to the Natural History Museum.
A detailed version of MacGillivray"s life, written by a namesake, was published 49 years after the ornithologist"s death. MacGillivray correctly distinguished between the hooded crow and carrion crow, but they were considered only to be subspecies for the next one and a half centuries until, in 2002, on deoxyribonucleic acid evidence, the hooded crow was awarded species status.
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William MacGillivray was a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.