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Displaying 521 - 530 of 2412 itemsTDGNHAS Card: 3078-32
… Summary of a lecture delivered to the Society on 27th March 2004 by Alastair Dodds of the National Museums of Scotland. The factory was built to a ferro-concrete design similar to that at Heathhall, …
TDGNHAS Card: 3081-28
… speaker explained that the birdlife of Scotland continues to evolve and our knowledge and understanding of these changes is much greater than in the past. Over one hundred and fifty … Scottish birdwatchers and ornothologists had contributed to a new boo … Proceedings … Ornithology … 3081-28 …
TDGNHAS Card: 3080-10
… Undeniably, old (parish and other) churches of any given area, particularly a rural region like Galloway, figure prominently in the historic and aesthetic landscape. Yet as ‘active’ components in their communities, for decades they have been …
TDGNHAS Card: 3081-18
… of Alfred Edgar Truckell - who was a significant contributor to the success and progress of the Society from the time of his election in 1947. He was President 1974-77; Editor …
TDGNHAS Card: 3085-2
… Completion of the whole-county 2010 census of Rook Corvus frugilegus nests in Dumfriesshire is the most recent in a series which began in 1908. The … one colony (not the same one) had more than 200 nests, symptomatic of the unabated fragmentation of large rookeries …
TDGNHAS Card: 3075-9
… Brief explanation of the indexing protocols applied to A.E.Truckell's transcript of microfilm records relating … to 17th century Dumfries and Kirkcudbright Custom and Excise Records - see article III/75/173. Examples of the …
TDGNHAS Card: 3002-9
… manner, recounted many of the popular beliefs attached to particular plants, drawing his matter from widely distributed sources and districts. He illustrated his paper …
TDGNHAS Card: 3089-8
… John Heathcoat was the inventor of a steam ploughing engine which he demonstrated on marshland near Dumfries in 1837. The organisers were disappointed with its performance, and thereafter it was believed that the machine had sunk into the marsh; but there is evidence against that account of …
TDGNHAS Card: 3078-10
… A type of place-name formation in which the word hall is preceeded by a bird-name has long been recognised in northern England but has only recently been …
TDGNHAS Card: 3077-14
… McCarthy's book on 'Roman Carlisle and the Lands of the Solway' does more than its title … provides a full review of the archaeology of both the English and Scottish sides of the eastern end of the Solway from the early quaternary to the early mediaeva … Roman and Romano British … Iron Age …