James Wilson (zoologist)

He later returned to Paris to purchase Louis Dufresne's collection of birds for the museum of the University of Edinburgh; and helped to arrange them.

In 1819, he visited Sweden, soon after which symptoms of lung disease appeared, and he resided in Italy during 1820–1821.

[3] In 1841, at the request of the Fisheries Board, he made a series of excursions around the coast of Scotland with Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, to study the natural history of herring, Other trips followed at intervals between 1843 and 1850, and fishing excursions inland.

It stands immediately in front of the more distinctive grave of his brother John Wilson.

Their daughter, Marianne (Marion) Rae Wilson married James Alexander Russell.

His niece, Henrietta Margaret Sym Wilson (1810–1863) came to live with him at Woodville, after her parents died.

[6] He was author of: For the Edinburgh Cabinet Library he wrote the zoology of India, China, Africa, and the northern regions of North America; and contributed the greater part of the natural history and a life of Professor Forbes to the seventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.