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S. Callander

James Clerk Maxwell [Lecture to the Society, 7th October, 2005]

Proceedings, Physics, History

TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 178(3.8 MB)

Abstract

Summary of a lecture given to the Society on 7th October, 2005. Scotland’s renowned Physicist and greatest Countryman, whose home was in Parton Parish, was born in Edinburgh. James Clerk Maxwell is well known to the scientific world but, shamefully, is
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John Rutherford, Society Member and Photographer in Nithsdale

TDGNHAS Series III, 88 (2014), 135(WARNING large file size: 7.34 MB)

Abstract

John Rutherford (1842–1925) was a photographic pioneer and well worthy of study: so much so that three papers, in all, over three years will gradually build up a picture of his activities, achievements and, especially, his recording of scenes in South-West Scotland at the end of the Victorian period. The current paper features his photographs of Nithsdale. The first paper in the series presented biographical information and a study of the excavations at Birrens in the 1890s, both being aspects of Annandale.2 The third and final paper will concentrate on his scenes of Dumfries itself .