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Archibald Gordon MacGregor

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442: 452: 437: 231: 427: 352:"The Royal Society expedition to Montserrat, B.W.I. : the volcanic history and petrology of Montserrat, with observations on Mt. Pelé, in Martinique" 432: 302:"The Royal Society expedition to Montserrat, B. W. I. - the volcanic history and petrology of Montserrat, with observation on Mt Pelé, in Martinique" 244: 457: 141:, to investigate the origins of a damaging sequence of earthquakes that had struck the island. In 1938, MacGregor was awarded a 275: 447: 161: 149: 250: 338: 164: 106: 276:"1936 Royal Society expedition to Montserrat | Volcanoes | Discovering Geology | British Geological Survey (BGS)" 95: 26: 88: 69: 25:
FGS (1894-19 December 1986) was a 20th century geologist of Scots descent. He was Assistant Director of the
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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during which he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the
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in April 1918. He graduated with a BSc in science in 1921.
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Problems of Carboniferous-Permian Volcanicity in Scotland
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Index

MC
FRSE
British Geological Survey
Halifax, Nova Scotia
James Gordon MacGregor
Scotland
Nova Scotia
The Grange
Edinburgh Academy
University of Edinburgh
World War I
Royal Engineers
Military Cross
Battle of the Lys
HM Geological Survey
Scottish Highlands
Royal Society of Edinburgh
John Smith Flett
Thomas James Jehu
Murray Macgregor
James Ernest Richey
Charles Glover Barkla
C F Powell
Royal Society
Montserrat
D.Sc
Geological Society of London
Murchison Fund
Murchison Medal
Edinburgh Geological Society's

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