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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Daniel Wilson (1816–1892)

Wilson, Sir Daniel. A Canadian educator and archæologist; born at Edinburgh, 1816; died at Toronto, Aug. 6, 1892. He was president of Toronto University from 1881. He wrote: ‘Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time’ (1846–49); ‘Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate’ (1848); ‘Prehistoric Man’ (1862); ‘Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland’ (revised ed. 1863); ‘Chatterton’ (1869); ‘Reminiscences of Old Edinburgh’ (1878); ‘The Lost Atlantis’ (1892), poems; etc.