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- Died
- 1848
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- Observations on the account of a plan for the better supplying the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow with coal by Henry Steuart
- Contribution to antiseptic surgery
- A letter on vaccination and the Vaccination (Scotland) Act
- Approximate places of double stars in the southern hemisphere observed at Paramatta in New South Wales
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James Dunlop FRSE (31 October 1793 – 22 September 1848) was a British astronomer, noted for his work in Australia. He was employed by Sir Thomas Brisbane to work as astronomer's assistant at his private observatory, once located at Paramatta (now named Parramatta), New South Wales, about 23 kilometres (14 mi) west of Sydney during the 1820s and 1830s. Dunlop was mostly a visual observer, doing stellar astrometry work for Brisbane, and after its completion, then independently discovered and catalogued many new telescopic southern double stars and deep-sky objects. He later became the Superintendent of Paramatta Observatory when it was finally sold to the New South Wales Government.
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1793 births1848 deaths19th-century Australian astronomersBritish scientific instrument makersFellows of the Royal Astronomical SocietyFellows of the Royal Society of EdinburghPeople from Dalry, North AyrshireRecipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical SocietyRecipients of the Lalande PrizeScottish astronomersScottish emigrants to colonial Australia