James McKay Bryson
1824 - 1893
James McKay Bryson was born in 1824. He was the son of Robert Bryson, optical instrument maker, and the brother of Alexander Bryson, another optical instrument maker. He was an optical instrument maker who sold microscopes, slides, thermometers, and barometers in Edinburgh from 1850 to 1893.
Gloria Clifton, "Bryson James Mackay," Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers, 1550-1851 (London: Zwemmer, 1995).