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and the Percy family, with accounts of old customs, sports, public movements, local nomenclature, the botany, zoology, and geology of the district, and biographies of the notabilities of the town. On the completion of its publication a banquet was given in Tate's honour in the town-hall, 21 May 1869.
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Alnwick Mechanics' Scientific Institution, of
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Tate, George (1853). "The fossil flora of the mountain limestone formation of the eastern borders, in connection with the natural history of coal". In
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which he acted as secretary for thirty years, and as the secretary of the
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Sculptured Rocks of Northumberland and Eastern Borders
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