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William Macgillivray

1796–1852

Scottish ornithologist and natural historian. Conservator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1831–41. Appointed regius professor of natural history, Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1841.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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