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*''Mineralogy of the Scottish Isles'' (1800)
*''Mineralogical Description of Scotland'' (1804)
*(1804). [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28System%20of%20Mineralogy%29%20AND%20creator%3A%28Jameson%29 ''System of Mineralogy''], with expanded editions in 1816 and 1820. Published in three volumes. Jameson says in Volume One on preface page xvii: "I shall follow the arrangement and method of description of [[Abraham Gottlob Werner|Werner]]" in his system of mineralogy.*''System of Mineralogy'' (1806)
*''System of Mineralogy'' (1806)
*''Characters of Minerals'' (1806)
*''Elements of [[Geognosy]]'' (1809)
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*Translation of [[Cuvier]]'s ''Essay on the Theory of the Earth'' (1813)
*''A Manual of Minerals and Mountain Rocks'' (1821)
 
 
*(1805). [https://archive.org/details/b22042337 ''A Mineralogical Description of the County of Dumfries''].
*(1805). ''Mineralogical Description of Scotland'', vol. i, part I.
*(1809). ''Elements of Geognosy''.
*(1813). [https://archive.org/details/b22010555 ''Mineralogical Travels through the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland Islands''].
*(1821). [https://archive.org/details/Jameson1821sp55X ''Manual of Mineralogy''].
*(1830). (With [[James Wilson (zoologist)|James Wilson]] and [[Hugh Murray (geographer)|Hugh Murray]]). ''Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with illustrations of the geology, mineralogy, and zoology''. With a map; plans of the routes of Park, and of Denham and Clapperton; several engravings. First published in the ''[[Edinburgh Cabinet Library]]'', 1830.
 
==Artistic Recognition==
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A geological landmark in Newfoundland, Canada is named in his honour - Jameson Hills - named by a former student of his Wm. Eppes Cormack - the first European to traverse the interior of the island of Newfoundland
 
 
==Publications==
*(1798). ''The Mineralogy of the Shetland Islands and of Arran''.
*(1800). ''Mineralogy of the Scottish Isles''.
*(1804). [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28System%20of%20Mineralogy%29%20AND%20creator%3A%28Jameson%29 ''System of Mineralogy''], with expanded editions in 1816 and 1820. Published in three volumes. Jameson says in Volume One on preface page xvii: "I shall follow the arrangement and method of description of [[Abraham Gottlob Werner|Werner]]" in his system of mineralogy.
*(1805). [https://archive.org/details/b22042337 ''A Mineralogical Description of the County of Dumfries''].
*(1805). ''Mineralogical Description of Scotland'', vol. i, part I.
*(1809). ''Elements of Geognosy''.
*(1813). [https://archive.org/details/b22010555 ''Mineralogical Travels through the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland Islands''].
*(1821). [https://archive.org/details/Jameson1821sp55X ''Manual of Mineralogy''].
*(1830). (With [[James Wilson (zoologist)|James Wilson]] and [[Hugh Murray (geographer)|Hugh Murray]]). ''Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with illustrations of the geology, mineralogy, and zoology''. With a map; plans of the routes of Park, and of Denham and Clapperton; several engravings. First published in the ''[[Edinburgh Cabinet Library]]'', 1830.
 
==References==