References
- The best short account of Giesecke's life is in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon Copenhagen 1936 viii 95 95 see also H. F. Berry, History of the Royal Dublin Society (London, 1915). The identity of the actor-dramatist and the scientist is quite certain, but conjecture about his early life still continues; see, for example, G. Waterhouse, Hermathena, 1961, 95, 36.
- Thomson Thomas 1773–1852 F.R.S later (1817) Regius Professor of Chemistry in the University of Glasgow ; author of A System of Chemistry (D.N.B.).
- Wormskiold , Morten . 1783–1845 . Danish naturalist and travoller . Dansk Biografisk Leksikon , xxvi : 301 – 301 .
- Weld , Isaac . 1774–1856 . traveller and writer, honorary secretary to the Dublin Society (D.N.B.).
- Joy Henry 1838 (died honorary secretary to the Dublin Society.
- Weaver , Thomas . 1773–1855 . geologist, educated under Werner in Freiberg (D.N.B.).
- Bruce , Archibald . 1777–1818 . American mineralogist. He had been in Edinburgh in 1800, when he took his M.D.