John and Andrew Fleming –
Geological Collections
From Natural Science Collections in Scotland – National Museums of Scotland
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FLEMING, JOHN
(REV, PROF, DD, FRSE, 1785-1857)
Born Bathgate, died Edinburgh. Educated Edinburgh University. Presbyterian Minister at Bressay, Shetland and Flisk, Fife. Professor of Natural Philosophy at King’s College, Aberdeen, 1834-45, then Professor of Natural History at Free Church College, Edinburgh.
Author of Flora of West Lothian (1814), Philosophy of Zoology (1822), History of British Animals (1828), Lithology of Edinburgh (1859) and more than 100 other books and papers on geology and zoology.
Collections:
Royal Scottish Museum, Geology Department
More than 500 British fossils many with Fleming’s original labels.
Purchased from his son Dr. Andrew Fleming, Indian Army, 1870.
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove
About 800 mineral specimens from Scotland, England, Cornwall, Europe, Iceland, USA, Mexico, Australia, and worldwide. Includes a letter from Hugh Miller to John Fleming, and a typed museum catalogue of the collection.
Donated by Major J. A. Fleming, c/o Captain Fleming, Western Club, Glasgow, 1902.
About 2 400 seaweeds, fungi, lichens, mosses and algae from Scotland, Shetland, Fife, Clackmannan, Edinburgh. Includes letters dated 1843 and 1848 to David Landsborough (1779-1854), expert on non-flowering plants.
Donated by Major J. A. Fleming, Western Club, Glasgow, 10th December, 1902.
Montrose Museum and Art Gallery
402 molluscs, worldwide.
Purchased by James Renny on Fleming’s death and donated to Arbroath Museum. This part was sold to H.G. Watson in 1930 ( The remainder was given to the Royal Scottish Museum in 1972.) and was bought from his son in 1982. Now in Montrose museum.
FLEMING, ANDREW
(DR, MD, FRSE, 1822-1901)
Son of Dr. John Fleming. Deputy Surgeon General in H.M. Indian Army.
Royal Scottish Museum, Geology Department
More than 140 specimens of Permian rocks and fossils from the Salt Range, Pakistan.
Presented by Fleming in 1870.
50 specimens of Triassic fossils from the Punjab, Pakistan.
Presented by Fleming in 1871
From Archives of Natural History 1982
Geological Collectors and Collections of the India Museum, London, 1801-1879. by D.T. Moore
In the 78 years of the existence of the India Museum, London several important geological collections were passed to the museum. Among them were the Salt Range of Pakistan presented by A. Fleming in the 1850s.
Bathgate Old Times 