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John Craig (geologist)

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A New Universal, Technological, Etymological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English language, embracing all the terms used in Art, Science and Literature, Volume 2 (1854)
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A New Universal, Technological, Etymological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English language, embracing all the terms used in Art, Science and Literature
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making surveys of public and private property and began to give lectures on geology and to write geological
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John Craig, 'On the Carboniferous formation of the lower ward of Lanarkshire', in
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was issued in two volumes of 1,000 pages each, and also in monthly parts.
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Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society in the year 1839
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Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow: Volumes 22-23
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The White slave: Another picture of slave life in America
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Index

FGS
Scottish
geologist
lexicographer
Anderson's University
Glasgow
Fellow
Geological Society of London
dictionary
Airdrie, North Lanarkshire
merchant
weaver
Shotts
Newington
poetry
geology
Highland Society
Lanarkshire
Glasgow
Town Council
treatises
liberal
newspapers
p. 283
p. 434
Advertisement on p. 244
Geological Society of Glasgow
A New Universal, Technological, Etymological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English language, embracing all the terms used in Art, Science and Literature, Volume 2 (1854)
Google Books
Craig's Dictionary

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