botanical garden is moved to the Inverleith site of the modern-day Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Inveraray Jail and Courthouse opened. The mineral thomsonite is first discovered, in Scotland. The Edinburgh Phrenological Society is established. John Walker sets up as a grocer and wine and spirits merchant in Kilmarnock, from where he will sell the blended Scotch whisky which will be branded as Johnnie Walker. The 6th Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published. The Scottish Cemetery at Calcutta is established in British India. Approximate date Construction of Ardlamont House. Development of Barbaraville begins. Demolition and replacement of old village of Cullen to extend the gardens of Cullen House in Moray begins. Gordon Setter dog breed standard formalised by Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon. Births 4 April – David Kirkaldy, engineer, pioneer of materials testing (died 1897 in England) 21 April – Peter Kerr, architect (died 1912 in Australia) 1 May – Henry Yule, orientalist (died 1889 in England) 24 May – William Bruce Robertson, Presbyterian preacher (died 1886) 29 June – Patrick Stirling, locomotive engineer (died 1895 in Doncaster) 5 July – William John Macquorn Rankine, physicist (died 1872) 6 August – Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, entrepreneur, statesman and philanthropist (died 1914 in Canada) William Downie, gold prospector (died 1893 in North America) James Mckenzie, outlaw in New Zealand (died after 1856 in Australia?) Edward Wilson, railway civil and locomotive engineer (died 1877 in England) Deaths 14 January – Agnes Broun or Burnes, mother of Robert Burns (born 1732) 12 March – Sir Alexander Mackenzie, explorer of Canada (born 1764) 2 April – Thomas Brown, philosopher (born 1778; died in London) 15 April – John Bell, surgeon (born 1763; died in Rome) 4 September – John Dunlop, merchant and miscellaneous writer (born 1755) 6 September – James Ferguson, lawyer, politician and landowner (born 1735; died in London) 11 October – James Keir, geologist, chemist and industrialist (born 1735; died in Birmingham) 8 December – Archibald Colquhoun, lawyer and politician (born c.1754) The arts Robert Chambers's publishing company publishes The Songs of Robert Burns. Walter Scott's novels The Abbot and The Monastery are published anonymously; also the first collected edition of his Poetical Works and his song "Hail to the Chief". Agnes C. Hall's novel The Highland Castle and the Lowland Cottage is published under the pen-name Rosalia St Clair. Robert Archibald Smith's The Scotish [sic.]