Article Nº 2157 Scientist or naturalist Vol. II · p. 551
Macaulay (Dr James)
Original title: Macaulay (Dr. James)
Dr James Macaulay was an English scientist who stayed in Madeira in 1839–40. He wrote a paper on the island's physical geography, geology and climate and edited the short-lived English newspaper The Stranger.
A distinguished English scientist who spent part of 1839 and 1840 in Madeira. He wrote a valuable work on this island entitled Notes on the Physical Geography, Geology and Climate of the Island of Madeira, published in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal of October 1840, pages 1 to 39. James Macaulay was the editor of The Stranger, a newspaper written in English and published in Funchal, of which only the first issue appeared, in January 1840.
People mentioned
Places mentioned