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K. Duffy

The Red Kite Release Project [Lecture to Society on 21st January, 2005]

Ornithology

TDGNHAS Series III, 79 (2005), 192(4.05 MB)

Abstract

Summary of a lecture delivered to the Society on 21st January 2005.
Red Kites were extinct in Scotland by the late 19th century. The first young birds, from Germany and the Chilterns, were released from cages on a private estate forestry site in Galloway

N. Chisholm

The River Annan District Salmon Fishery Board River Management [Lecture to the Society, 19th March, 2004]

Proceedings, Biology, Zoology

TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 156(4.91 MB)

Abstract

Summary of a lecture delivered to the Society on 19th March 2004 by Nick Chisholm, Environmental Manager to the River Annan District Salmon Fishery Board. The River Annan is unaffected by hydro-electric power schemes, unlike so many Highland rivers, and i

Frances Wilkins

The Role of Wigtownshire in Eighteenth Century Smuggling

Recent, Recent (Social), History

TDGNHAS Series III, 77 (2003), 181(1.68 MB)

Abstract

According to the Board of Customs in Edinburgh, 'very considerable' quantities of contraband goods were landed in Wigtownshire during the eighteenth century. Only 1.3% of Scotland's population lived here at the time so that the region could not provide cu