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Displaying 81 - 90 of 4112 itemsBiography: Patrick Crichton
… Patrick Crichton, M.A., F.S.A.Scot. Patrick Crichton was born in the Wirral, his parents being from Scotland. After school at Moffat and Bryanston in Dorset, he had … of Guinness Overseas Ltd., and remained with this company for eleven years. Early retirement brought him to …
Meeting: Milk! From Grass to the Table
… Stuart Martin, an Ulsterman, addressed Dumfriesshire and … Northern Ireland, after graduating, with the Northern Foods Company for eight years, during the last five of which he …
Meeting: The Chelsea Physic Garden
… Paterson, Curator of Chelsea Physic Garden from 1973 to1981 and later Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton, … How fortunate we are that this gentleman of manifold accomplishments chose to retire to Dumfriesshire! He was … as a medical aid after a time in Jamaica. He passed the £5 freehold to the Apothecaries in perpetuity, provided that …
… The last meeting of Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History … Warren presented a series of excellent slides to accompany a very informative talk, thus making it difficult, …
Biography: Dr James Harper
… Harper on All Souls’ Day, 2nd November 2005 has robbed Scotland of one of the most successful and distinguished … administrator and above all a chief, who allowed his staff freedom to develop their own initiatives. On arrival at … their individuality; encouraging maximum support and communication with the wider community. In 1966 Dr Harper …
… Alasdair Macdonald began his lecture by giving an overview … concerned with population genetics, or population structure and ancestry, for example to answer the question ‘Who are … than blood samples as was sometimes presumed. Several commercial companies offer testing services, but …
… After a long career working in libraries and studying their … changes in the world of books, including the beginnings of commercial publishing and the emergence of a wider reading …
Meeting: The saving of the City of Adelaide
… talk chaired by Alastair Gair. City of Adelaide is a standard wooden clipper ship, the oldest surviving in the … and the State of South Australia, which was run as a commercial operation, not taking convicts. She operated this … passengers, who had a trade wanted in Australia, travelled free. There were 14 en-suite First Class cabins. A varied …
… The meeting of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society on the … Eliza Smith and the New Abbey Refugees . Stuart came to live in the Manse House at New Abbey and, whilst looking …
… gave a wide-ranging, well-presented talk to Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society on the … Age and therefore unpopulated. Only the Rhinns of Islay was free of ice. Once free of glaciation in Mesolithic times, … were transmitted to humans in this period. It has become possible to track our ancestry by studying …