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Robert Kerr (writer)
Robert Kerr (1755 – 11 October 1813) was a Scottish scientific writer and translator.
==Life==
Kerr was born in Roxburghshire, the son of a jeweller. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and practised at the Edinburgh Foundling Hospital as a surgeon. He translated several scientific works into English, such as Antoine Lavoisier's work of 1789, ''Traité Élémentaire de Chimie'', published under the title ''Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order containing All the Modern Discoveries'', in 1790.〔Antoine Lavoisier, (''Elements of Chemistry'' ) (1790)〕 In 1792, he published ''The Animal Kingdom'', the first two volumes of a four-tome translation of Linnaeus' ''Systema Naturae'', which is often cited as the taxonomic authority for a great many species. (He never did the remaining two volumes.)
In 1794 he left his post as a surgeon to manage a paper mill. He lost much of his fortune with this enterprise. Out of economical necessity he began writing again in 1809, publishing a variety of minor works, for instance a ''General View of the Agriculture of Berwickshire''. His last work was a translation of Cuvier's ''Recherches sur les ossements fossiles de quadrupedes'', which was published after Kerr's death under the title "Essays on the Theory of the Earth".
His other works included a massive historical study entitled ''A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels'' in eighteen volumes. Kerr began the series in 1811, dedicating it to Sir Alexander Cochrane, K.B., Vice-Admiral of the White. Publication did not cease following Kerr's death in 1813; the latter volumes were published into the 1820s.
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