GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827-1892), Scottish ex plorer of eastern equatorial Africa, was born at Nairn, where his father was the parish minister, on April II, 1827. He was educated at the grammar school and Marischal college, Aberdeen, and in 1846 joined the Indian army. He saw active service in the Sikh War (1848-49), served throughout the mutiny of 1857, and was wounded in the operations for the relief of Lucknow. He returned to England in 1858, and in 186o joined J. H. Speke (q.v.) in the expedition which solved the problem of the Nile sources. Grant served in the intelligence department of the Abyssinian expedition of 1868; he then retired from the army with the rank of lieuten ant-colonel. He died at Nairn on Feb. II, 1892. He wrote A Walk Across Africa (1864) and, among other papers, "Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition" in vol. xxix. of the Transactions of the Linnaean Society.