Daniel Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3593-6234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1852 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Show Me the Data
This comment examines the rapidly evolving ecosystem of historical research data in the United Kingdom, where cultural heritage collections are increasingly digitised, commercialised and fragmented. Historians face growing challenges in discovering, accessing and reusing data as resources move behind paywalls, and repositories remain scattered, without a national infrastructure to ensure long-term preservation or discoverability. Drawing on examp…
Māori perspectives on health data use for predicting mate wareware (dementia)
In this article, we explore the perspectives of Māori with mate wareware (dementia) and their carers with respect to the use of their health records, particularly for the purposes of health research. Grounded in Kaupapa Māori research principles, we held two wānanga with members of a kaupapa Māori, mate wareware support group to explore their perspectives on uses of their health data. Themes developed that were relational with respect to agreed u…
Paramedics’ role in healthcare delivery in short-term police custody in Queensland, Australia
Provision of healthcare within short-term custody settings such as police watch-houses presents a complex public health challenge. This area has received limited attention in the literature, particularly the viewpoints of paramedics, who are a key link in the chain of healthcare. This study aimed to describe paramedics’ decision-making practices and procedures regarding the transport of patients from the watch-house to the emergency department. A…
Perceptions of virtual versus in‐person recovery meetings
This study investigates shifts in the modality of addiction recovery communities from person‐to‐person interactions to virtual platforms in the context of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. Our study involves members of the Oxford House recovery homes ( n = 284), a major network of recovery‐supportive housing in the United States and abroad. Many residents participate in 12‐step meetings during their stay, traditionally conducte…
Reading Maps at a Distance
The case for broader copulas
Discovering, comparing, and contrasting natural kinds is critical for scientific progress. It should be the goal of linguistic inquiry to seek out natural kinds within and between languages. Unfortunately, the most common definition of a copula is consistently inadequate for categorizing and comparing the data in cross-linguistic research on this topic. The categories of pseudo-copula and semi-copula have been offered to account for constructions…
Maps of a Nation? The Digitized Ordnance Survey for New Historical Research
Although the Ordnance Survey has itself been the subject of historical research, scholars have not systematically used its maps as primary sources of information. This is partly for disciplinary reasons and partly for the technical reason that high-quality maps have not until recently been available digitally, geo-referenced, and in color. A final, and crucial, addition has been the creation of item-level metadata which allows map collections to …
Babbage among the insurers
This article examines life assurance and the politics of ‘big data’ in mid-19th-century Britain. The datasets generated by life assurance companies were vast archives of information about human longevity. Actuaries distilled these archives into mortality tables – immensely valuable tools for predicting mortality and so pricing risk. The status of the mortality table was ambiguous, being both a public and a private object: often computed from comp…
Writing the Drive
Freud first theorizes the drive through Wilhelm Fliess's theory of bisexuality, which proposes that human life is structured by the periodic expression of a masculine and a feminine substance. Long after his break with Fliess, Freud maintains elements of Fliess's theory, arguing that the feminine eroticizes the body and orients the drive toward its impossible object and that analysis is interminable because in both men and women the feminine is r…
Prehistoric Man
Prehistoric Man
J. A. Hobson and the Machinery Question
The effects of industrialization on British life were the subject of a broad and intelligible set of debates during the early nineteenth century, often described as the “machinery question.” This question, concerning what today is called “technology,” was framed to include its effects on the whole of human life—an approach rarely seen by the late nineteenth century, a period marked instead by disciplinary specialization. An exception to this tren…
Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time
Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time
Caliban
Having acquired a Shakespeare folio for a few shillings, anthropologist Daniel Wilson (1816–92) found in The Tempest a source of scientific intrigue. Writing more than two hundred years before Darwin propounded his theory of evolution, in his final play Shakespeare had created a missing link caught between the animal and the human. In this monograph, first published in 1873, Wilson uses the strange and unfortunate character of Caliban as a means …
Dumpster Diving and Post-Electronic Soundmaking
The author presents an overview of his work, revealing how the socioeconomic position of the electroacoustic composer may necessitate dumpster diving as a means of survival that also provides a hidden benefit in fueling the creative process
Arnold Toynbee and the Industrial Revolution
Arnold Toynbee’s lectures on the Industrial Revolution (published in 1884) were the first—and the most influential—attempt to historicize Britain’s radical transition to a machine-based economy. This article locates the lectures in the context of the increasing disciplinary specialization of late-nineteenth-century Britain. Toynbee’s intellectual character and political commitments shaped an approach to the machinery question which was holist and…
Art and Abstract Objects
Journal Article Art and Abstract Objects Get access Art and Abstract Objects Christy Mag Uidhir (ED.) oup. 2012. pp. 310. £37.50 (hbk). Daniel Wilson Daniel Wilson University of Auckland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 55, Issue 2, April 2015, Pages 255–258, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayu020 Published: 09 September 2014
Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time
Born in Edinburgh, Daniel Wilson (1816–92) initially pursued an artistic career and spent time in Turner's studio. However, in 1846 he became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and devoted the rest of his life to archaeology, anthropology and university administration. He was active in the Society's attempts to save historic buildings in Edinburgh, and the city's built environment was the subject of this two-volume 1848 work, whic…
Prehistoric Annals of Scotland
Born in Edinburgh, Daniel Wilson (1816–92) planned on becoming a painter and spent time working in Turner's studio. But in 1842 he became secretary of the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland and devoted the rest of his life to archaeology, anthropology and university administration. This two-volume work, first published in 1851, brought him to immediate academic attention. Carrying out pioneering work of scientific archaeology, Wilson brought the …
Prehistoric Annals of Scotland
Born in Edinburgh, Daniel Wilson (1816–92) planned on becoming a painter and spent time working in Turner's studio. But in 1842 he became secretary of the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland and devoted the rest of his life to archaeology, anthropology and university administration. This two-volume work, first published in 1851, brought him to immediate academic attention. Carrying out pioneering work of scientific archaeology, Wilson brought the …
Prehistoric Annals of Scotland
Right Hand
Prehistoric Annals of Scotland
“Electric Music” on the Victorian Stage
This paper provides an overview of electrical pre-loudspeaker sound art in Victorian music halls, focusing on key figures, including one of the first female performers of an electrical musical instrument. Control of “acoustic incidents” separate from the artiste and the employment of artful presentation to create an aesthetic edifice—prerequisites of sound art—are apparent in the entertainments examined here. It is shown that the issues of today'…
Prehistoric Annals of Scotland
Born in Edinburgh, Daniel Wilson (1816-92) planned on becoming a painter and spent time working in Turner's studio. But in 1842 he became secretary of the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland and devoted the rest of his life to archaeology, anthropology and university administration. This two-volume work, first published in 1851, brought him to immediate academic attention. Carrying out pioneering work of scientific archaeology, Wilson brought the …
J. A. Hobson and the Machinery Question
The effects of industrialization on British life were the subject of a broad and intelligible set of debates during the early nineteenth century, often described as the “machinery question.” This question, concerning what today is called “technology,” was framed to include its effects on the whole of human life—an approach rarely seen by the late nineteenth century, a period marked instead by disciplinary specialization. An exception to this tren…
The Huron Race, and its Head-Form
Babbage among the insurers
This article examines life assurance and the politics of ‘big data’ in mid-19th-century Britain. The datasets generated by life assurance companies were vast archives of information about human longevity. Actuaries distilled these archives into mortality tables – immensely valuable tools for predicting mortality and so pricing risk. The status of the mortality table was ambiguous, being both a public and a private object: often computed from comp…
Art and Abstract Objects
Journal Article Art and Abstract Objects Get access Art and Abstract Objects Christy Mag Uidhir (ED.) oup. 2012. pp. 310. £37.50 (hbk). Daniel Wilson Daniel Wilson University of Auckland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 55, Issue 2, April 2015, Pages 255–258, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayu020 Published: 09 September 2014
Notice of St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh Castle
Notices of the History and Architectural Features of the ancient Church of St Cuthbert at Coldingham
Dr. Daniel Wilson, with the aid of the architect P. Hamilton, whose drawings and plans of Coldingham Church were used to illustrate Dr. Wilson's points, discursed on the subject of Coldingham Priory's architectural features. Several details suggested to Dr. Wilson that the building could be considered an extremely early example of the First Pointed style of Gothic architecture. By comparison with several other Scottish churches of the same period…
St Magnus, Kirkwall
A memorial to the Chief Commissioner of Her Majesty's Board of Works
St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh Castle
Dr. Daniel Wilson read notices about the history of the Chapel of St Margaret, going into the layout and dimensions of the various spaces and a description of their style. It is also mentioned that the chapel will be restored
The Dunvegan Cup
Dr. Daniel Wilson exhibited a famous medieval cup, which had mistakenly been attributed to Hebridean origin and dated to the tenth century by Sir Walter Scott. Dr. Wilson on obtaining access to the object was able to ascertain that it was of Irish origin. Further investigation of the names mentioned in the inscription revealed the identity of it's fifteenth century owners, although Dr. Wilson believed the cup to be older than that. Following this…
Roman Camp at Harburn
Dr. Daniel Wilson described the excavations he undertook at the Roman Camp on Harburn Estate. He and the workmen found numerous remains of weapons, amphorae, and a lead vessel. Even after so much time the camp, called Castle Greg, was in good condition, with fortifying wall standing on three sides. Finds from other Roman sites in Scotland were exhibited at the same time
Scottish Ogham Inscriptions
The secretary exhibited lithographs of sculptured standing stones with especial attention paid to the stone at Golspie, which had an Ogham inscription around its margin. He drew comparisons to the inscription on the Newton Stone, which was then revealed to be of even greater interest because it appeared to be a bilingual transcription. What follows is a summary of the activities at the Conversazione held on Feb. 26, 1852
Primitive Scottish Bells
A rebuttal by Dr. Daniel Wilson of a paper printed in vol. iv of the Archaeologia Scotica (but which was originally given in 1827), which attributed a Scandinavian origin to the Buidhean or Bell of Strowan. Dr. Wilson relates several local legends that were attached to the Bell of Strowan as well as others like it. Given the number of Scottish religious sites with which these bells are associated, many of them pre-dating the Scandinavian invasion…
Bronze Matrix with Hebrew Inscription
Dr. Daniel Wilson presented the matrix of a round seal, whose inscription bore striking resemblances to those displayed in the engravings of a vol of the Gentlemen's Magazine from June 1787. The figure is a turbaned head, and the words in Hebrew letters. Dr. Wilson then relayed the opinions of several scholars on the reading of the inscription. Beyond the mention of a Solomon son of Isaac, the experts can find few specifics to agree on
Roman Antiquities, Fifeshire
Dr. Daniel Wilson shared news of a remarkable Roman coin hoard in Portmoak, in a farm field that was once a deep bog. The coins were found just below the surface by a farm hand as he reaped that year's crop. The hoard comprised coins that covered an unbroken century-plus of emporers from Nero to Severus. Dr. Wilson remarks that this shows that dating inferences on the basis of coins is a rather dubious practice. He proceeds to give a numismatic d…
Iron Dagger, East Langton
Dr. Daniel Wilson's description of the discovery of an iron dagger and a knife found on a farm in Kirknewton is reprinted from his Prehistoric Annals of Scotland. The weapons along with a few other other artifacts were found 3.5 feet below the surface when farmhands were draining a field. Wilson notes that these artifacts are all characteristic of the last pagan period in Scotland. The artifacts were donated to the Society
Notice of discoveries of 'Celtic Pipes' in the vicinity of Edinburgh; with some remarks on the period to which they belong
A notice of the discovery of 'Celtic' tobacco pipes found near Bonnington. The pipes were found alongside coinage from the time of James VI, which Dr Wilson argues can be used to date these pipes to James VI's reign
On the class of stone vessels known in Scotland as Druidical Paterae
Dr Wilson suggests that by studying the traditional methods used by indigenous peoples in the Faroe Islands and Greenland, archaeologists could better understand the construction of examples of stone patera found in Scotland. He begins with an overview of the type of stone vessels he is focusing on, relating a detailed account of the unearthing of a patera in Aberdeenshire and listing other examples of this kind of vessel found in the Society's c…
On some suggestive examples of Abortive Discovery in Ancient Art
The final conversazione of this session was held in the Society's rooms on 26 April 1853. Dr Daniel Wilson delivered a lecture on brass engravings. He argues that the Society's collection of ancient art can be viewed as examples of early engraved printing plates (chalcographic art). He discusses examples from throughout antiquity and the medieval period, referencing brass engravings from Europe, Africa and Asia. He notes that although ancient eng…
Antiquities of the Copper Region of the North American Lakes
The author, having visited North America, describes the copper deposits found on the shores of the Great Lakes and the techniques used by the native peoples of these regions to work this metal into tools and weaponry. He also discusses the discovery of tropical conch shells in this area and the burial practices of some of the native peoples. It is noted that the native Americans hammered the copper into shape while it was cold as they did not use…
Notice of some Indian Antiquities, as compared with British in a letter from Dr Daniel Wilson, Toronto, Upper Canada, to David Laing
Daniel Wilson comments on the similarities between some artefacts belonging to First Nations groups in north-western Canada and those of the early peoples of the British Isles. In particular, he notes that an adze made one tribe is used to hollow out their canoes in a way that he believes echoes the way that wooden canoes found in the Clyde were made. This hand tool is also compared to some stone weaponry made by Pacific Islanders. Meeting notes …
Notice of a 'Quigrich' or Crozier of Saint Fillan
A letter from Dr Daniel Wilson in Toronto describing the Quigrich of Saint Fillan, a Scottish artefact owned by Alexander Dewar. Wilson is disappointed by the Society's rejection of his earlier proposal to buy the Quigrich from Mr Dewar, which was rejected due to the high asking price. Meeting notes for 19 April, 1859 are appended
Notes of the Search for the Tomb of the Royal Foundress of the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity at Edinburgh (in 1848)
The author provides an account of the Society’s involvement in the search for the grave of Mary of Guelders, the founder of the Collegiate church of the Holy Trinity in Edinburgh and the wife of James II. He also describes some of the church’s history and architectural features. He acknowledges that two female skeletons were found beneath the church but dismisses claims that the second skeleton may have been Mary of Guelders based on the location…
Notice of a Collection of Primitive Implements of the Ancient Swiss Lake-Dwellers, from Concise, on Lake Neufchatel
In proceeding to fulfil a promise to communicate to the Society some notice of American Antiquities, I am tempted to turn aside from the indigenous relics of this continent to others, which, though enriching an American collection, illustrate the arts and hahits of Central Europe in ages preceding its historical epoch.It is now twelve years since the attention of Dr Keller was attracted to the discovery of carved deers' horns, stone implements, a…
Prehistoric Annals of Scotland
Born in Edinburgh, Daniel Wilson (1816-92) planned on becoming a painter and spent time working in Turner's studio. But in 1842 he became secretary of the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland and devoted the rest of his life to archaeology, anthropology and university administration. This two-volume work, first published in 1851, brought him to immediate academic attention. Carrying out pioneering work of scientific archaeology, Wilson brought the …
The Huron Race, and its Head-Form
Notices of Sculptured Rocks and Boulders recently observed in Ohio and Kentucky, United States of America, and of the Probable Origin of the Cup-Markings which occur on Stones there and in other Count…
Notices of the Quigrich or Crozier of St Fillan and of its Hereditary Keepers, in a Letter to John Stuart
Some American Illustrations of the Evolution of New Varieties of Man
Holy Island, and the Runic Inscriptions of St Molio's Cave, County of Bute
The discovery of the remarkable series of Eunic inscriptions brought to light by the exploration of the famous Maeshowe tumulus of Orkney, in 1861, gave an altogether novel interest to this class of memorials of the Scottish Northmen; and they have, accordingly, received an amount of attention corresponding in some degree to their value. But though the Eunic inscriptions of St Molio's Cave, Holy Island, cannot compare .with them either in number …
The Kilmichael-Glassrie Bell-Shrine
Among tlie valuable ecclesiastical relics which enrich the collections of the Society, the beautiful bell-case or shrine, with its enclosed iron bell, from Kilmichael-Glassrie, Argyllshire, claims special attention, not only as a choice specimen of mediaeval art, but as an illustration of the fashion of enshrining bells of primitive Celtic saints, which appears to have been one of the characteristic practices peculiar to the Celtic branch of the …
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