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Andrew Breeze

The Names of Rheged

Early Mediaeval, Etymology, Place-names/Toponomy

TDGNHAS Series III, 86 (2012), 51(4.08 MB)

Abstract

The meeting of Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society on 2 December 2011 was a very special occasion. The topic for the evening was ‘The Names of Rheged’ and the speaker, Dr. Andrew Breeze. It was the James Williams Memorial Lecture, held in memory of the Society’s much-revered and long-serving editor. During James Williams’ editorship of the Transactions, Dr. Breeze has published several significant research papers on the place-names of Dumfries and Galloway and he willingly agreed to travel from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, to deliver the memorial lecture. This article is taken from a transcript of the lecture which he has generously offered for publication.

R.J.D. Graham

The Natural History and Agriculture of Mesopotamia [Summary only]

Agriculture

TDGNHAS Series III, 10 (1922-23), 10(WARNING very large file size: 60 MB)

Abstract

Col. Graham, formerly Director of Agriculture in Mesopotamia, described a journey from Basra to Baghdad and thence eastwards through Kurdistan, returning to Mesopotamia by the fertile plain of Erbil, near Mosul and thence across the desert and down the Eu

G. Riddle

The Natural History of Culzean Castle and Country Park [Lecture to the Society on 19th November, 2004]

Mediaeval, Recent, Recent (Social), Zoology, Botany

TDGNHAS Series III, 79 (2005), 191(4.05 MB)

Abstract

Summary of a lecture delivered to the Society on 19th November 2004.
Originally a bare tract of crofts and a few trees, dominated by a Tower House, the environment at Culzean changed with the building of the mansion house by Robert Adam and the developme