David Robertson (naturalist)

David Robertson FLS, FGS (1806–1896) was a Scottish naturalist and geologist who founded the University Marine Biological Station, Millport.

His interests turned to the study of Natural History in the town he regularly visited, Millport, in the Firth of Clyde.

He studied the local flora and fauna and established Millport as a significant area for marine biological research.

He persuaded members of the professional and business community in Glasgow to fund a permanent marine research station there.

[1] With George Stewardson Brady (1832–1921) and HW Crosskey he wrote A Monograph of the Post-Tertiary Entomostraca of Scotland, printed for the Palaeontographical Society.

Robertson at the founding of the Marine Biological Station, 1896