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Displaying 61 - 70 of 613 itemsMeeting: Indigo — a Blue to Dye For
… industry, furnishings, clothing, medicine, veterinary products, agriculture, science, the arts, cosmetics, etc. … shipping trade, promoted by the English East India Company, founded in 1600, grew up. Asian indigo-dyed … of manual oxygenation, dangerous to health, was usually done by slaves; in time, with the spread of …
… the occasion drew a huge audience. The earliest event mentioned was the fact that the Strauss Orchestra, on its way to … Scottish scene (although there were also plenty of amateur companies performing locally in towns and villages). There … Vance, cockney singer and dancer, received top billing and visited the area in the 1860s and 1870s. Chang, the Chinese …
Volume: TDGNHAS Series III, Volume 44
… Cairn, Kintyre, Argyll Author: Ritchie, J.N.G. 81 Cremated Bone from Balnabraid Cairn, cists 5 & 9, and from Dalruan, … Smelting Site at Millhill, New Abbey Author: Williams, J. 126 Charcoal Samples from Millhill Author: Ransom, M.E. 131 … W.A.F. Balfour-Browne Author: Council, The 226 Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles - National Museum of Antiquities …
Meeting: The secret life of cowpats
… of the island’s red-billed Chough population. This food source is found in cowpats. The chough is an iconic … benefits. Several other insects and their larvae are commonly found in cowpats. These include the common Yellow Dung Fly ( Scathophaga stercoraria ), the …
Meeting: Tower-Houses of the Scottish Borders
… and author of two definitive books on the subject, gave a comprehensive overview of these formidable buildings. Their … the nobility and rich merchant classes of mediaeval Italy. One interesting point of contrast with Scottish Borders … Tower, near Annan. Judged to have been wrongly seized in 1626 by the sons of the original builder, Edward Irving, it …
… science of population genetics, still in a formative period. In pre-history five classic eras are recognised: … Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age. In the stone ages females had greater equality. Subjugation came … were transmitted to humans in this period. It has become possible to track our ancestry by studying …
Volume: TDGNHAS Series III, Volume 12
… Birds Mentioned in the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, 1124-1707 … Church in Dumfriesshire and its Monuments Author: Collingwood, W.G. 46 A Botanical Tour in the Himalayas [Summary only] … of Dumfries, 1577-1583 Author: Hamilton-Grierson, P.J. 126 Rainfall Records for the South-Western Counties for the …
Volume: TDGNHAS Series III, Volume 5
… Only] by Sir Philip Hamilton Grierson 136 The Lost Stone of Kirkmadrine by Rev. G.P. Robertson 136 Extracts from … for the Year 1916 by Andrew Watt 152 1917–18 Articles Comparative Archaeology, Its Aims and Methods by Robert … Charters by Rev. F.W. Ragg 231 Obituaries James M'Andrew 264 James Lennox 265 Exhibits [1917] 266 Purchases 1918 …
… Society held in Dumfries on 7th November, Paul Goodwin brought the audience up to date on the current … could fail to be impressed by the extent of new information coming to light, even a century after the outbreak of the … central theme of the talk was not just the monuments of stone or metal, but the evocation of the real people they …
… are involved in their decline, with some of the main ones locally being acidification of the water as a result of … and pollution, hydroelectric and other dams and the introduction of non-native species. The salmonid family of … locally in all larger rivers but in much reduced numbers compared to the past. They return from feeding around the …