John ("Jim") Weir FRSE FGS (1896 – 1978) was a 20th-century Scottish geologist and palaeontologist.
Weir was born in Glasgow in 1896 and was educated at Woodside Secondary School.
[1] He studied Science at University of Glasgow specialising in geology and mining, graduating MA in 1920 and gaining his first doctorate (PhD) in 1925.
[1] In 1941 he succeeded Arthur Trueman as President of the Glasgow Geological Society.
He was father to John Anthony Weir (1932-2002) also a geologist.