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Displaying 141 - 150 of 1961 items… In a fact-filled and often entertaining talk Mark took the audience through the history of wildlife recording, … parish, a species now almost unknown in Dumfries and Galloway. William Jardine and George Scott Elliot, early … to send in wildlife records, and to take part in the forthcoming RSPB Garden Birdwatch — Britain's biggest wildlife …
Meeting: Between the Tides
… About eighty members and visitors gathered to hear a talk by marine biologist Jim … can be found between the high and low watermarks on the Solway coast. Our area is particularly rewarding, partly …
… Jim Logan, marine biologist, returned to the Baptist Church Centre to present his lecture on the seashells found on the coast of Dumfries and Galloway. We are in the fortunate position of having a coastline … average count per beach of twenty to thirty species which, compared to the Ayrshire coast with only thirty species …
… online participants joining the lecture from as far away as Spain and the USA. Dr Edmonds started by separating the eras into ‘The Emergence’, ‘The Golden Age’ and ‘The Viking Age’. … and an important culture in poetry. In the seventh century competition increased between the kingdoms with tribute …
Meeting: Dumfries Soup Kitchens
… The first recorded example of a soup kitchen was attributed to Benjamin Thompson, a United States loyalist during the … He promoted soup, particularly Scotch broth, as nutritious, easy to prepare and inexpensive. The idea spread widely, … poor” at a cost of one halfpenny per quart, to be taken away in a suitable container. Relief was strictly regulated. …
… Funding, Rathmell Archaeology was commissioned by Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership to deliver the Can You Dig It community archaeology project. … Loch and Mossdale. The first stage was to clear vegetation from the old kiln. This three-day excavation …
Volume: TDGNHAS Series II, Volume 19
… was Deciphered Author: Chinnock, E.J. 29 Standing Stones of Laggangairn Author: Fleming-Hamilton, (Miss) 32 … Besancon Author: M'Cutcheon, W. 56 Dumfriesshire and Galloway Ministers in Cumberland Author: Penfold, H. 63 Obituary: … Century Author: Dickie, W. 129 Extracts relating to Galloway from the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland Author: …
Meeting: Archaeology of Beer and Brewing
… large turn-out, perhaps understandably enough when the talk to be given by Rebecca Boyde was entitled 'The Archaeology … Canada. Her first degree in Archaeology was from Saskatoon University; thereafter she did an MSc at Bradford; and … she has been with Archaeology Scotland. She is married to a Manxman. Rebecca revealed some of the international …
… a long career working in libraries and studying their historical evolution, Dr John Crawford was well placed to address members of the Dumfriesshie and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society on the subject … Benjamin Franklin's Junto Club in America to Allan Ramsay’s Easy Club in Scotland, Dr Crawford arrived at the village of …