contributed some translation work, provided an introduction, and completed the editing of the manuscript for its eventual publication in 1911. Inventions Campbell held a lifelong interest in the sciences, especially geology and meteorology. He invented the meteorological sunshine recorder or thermograph that bears his name as the Campbell–Stokes recorder. Visit to Japan Campbell was acquainted with Colin Alexander McVean, a Scottish engineer hired by Japan's Public Works as chief surveyor, and visited sights around Tokyo with McVean at the end of 1874, including Nikko. During the observation of the Venus transit by the Meiji government on 9 December 1874, he superintended a theodolite on the Gotenyama Hill site in Tokyo. He travelled through the central part of Honshu to Kyoto, then left Japan from Kobe in February 1875. He bought Japanese antiques and showed them in London to friends including Frank Dillion. Later life He is buried under a replica of Islay's treasured Kildalton Cross in the Grand Jas Cemetery (le cimetière "du Grand Jas") at Cannes. Campbell never married. References Citations Bibliography External links A Short Biography of John Francis Campbell An Article on John Francis Campbell's Life Monument in Islay erected for John Francis Campbell 1822 births 1885 deaths Collectors of fairy tales 19th-century Scottish writers People from Islay Scottish Gaelic language Translators from Scottish Gaelic 19th-century British translators People educated at Eton College Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Scottish lawyers Scottish folk-song collectors Scottish folklorists 19th-century musicologists