Wilkins (Dr. D.) notice of, [236]; Coptic works of, [236]
Wilkins (Dr. Jno.) Philosophical or Real character of, [191], [196], [310]
WILSON (ALEX.) the First; begins as a doctor’s assistant in London, [258]; patronised by Lord Isla, [258]; starts a foundry, [259]; his partner Baine, [259], [260]; attempts new method of founding, [259]; earliest founts of, [260]; settles at St. Andrew’s, [260]; Irish and foreign business, [260], [264]; removes to Camlachie, [260]; casts types for the Foulis, [261]; the Glasgow Homer Greek type, [262]; retires, [262]; tributes to, [262], [263]; specimens, [263]; foundry removed to Glasgow, [263]
——— Matrices: Black, [264]; Greek, [61], [261], [262], [264], [265]; Hebrew, [261], [265]; Roman and Italic, [48], [260], [263], [264], [265]; Saxon, [74], [264]
WILSON (ANDREW) son of above; assists and succeeds his father, [264]; state of the foundry in 1825; [264]
——— Matrices: Greek, [264]; Roman, [264], [355]
WILSON (ALEX.) the Second, son of above, joins his father, [264]; succeeds to the foundry, [264]; establishes branches at Edinburgh, [264], London, [265], and Two Waters, [265]; type casting machine of, [122], [265]; fails in business, [265]; sells foundry, [265]; joins Mr. Caslon, [255], [265]
WILSON (PATRICK) brother and partner of above, [264]
Wilson Foundry, type standards in 1841; [34]: division and dispersion of, [255], [265]
Woide (Dr.) his facsimile of the Alexandrian Codex, [311], [321]