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Alexander Gordon Melville (1819–1901) was an Irish comparative anatomist, best known for his work on the dodo. He was Professor of Natural History at Queen's College Galway, from 1849 to 1882.[1]

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Alexander Gordon Melville

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Alexander Gordon Melville (1819–1901) was an Irish comparative anatomist, best known for his work on the dodo. He was Professor of Natural History at...

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Dodo

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later supported by English naturalists Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville in their 1848 monograph The Dodo and Its Kindred, which attempted...

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Raphinae

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whose opinions were then supported by Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville. Recent extractions of DNA from the dodo and Rodrigues solitaire...

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Rodrigues solitaire

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same species. The English naturalists Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville suggested the common descent of the Rodrigues solitaire and the...

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List of University of Galway people

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1880-1885 and later Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge Alexander Gordon Melville - Comparative anatomist, Professor at Queen's College Galway 1849-1882...

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Hugh Edwin Strickland

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at Oxford, and two years later he issued in conjunction with Alexander Gordon Melville a work on The Dodo and its kindred (1848). In 1850 he was appointed...

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James Melville of Halhill

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Sir James Melville (1535–1617) was a Scottish diplomat and memoir writer, and father of the poet Elizabeth Melville. Melville was the third son of Sir...

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1833 in paleontology

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1371/journal.pone.0060571. PMC 3616133. PMID 23560099. Mantell, G.A.; Melville, A.G. (1849). "Additional Observations on the Osteology of the Iguanodon...

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Lord Byron

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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet and peer. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic...

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List of British spies

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List of grand master masons of the Grand Lodge of Scotland

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Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (G.M. of England; 1744) 1741–1742: Alexander Melville, 5th Earl of Leven 1742–1743: William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock...

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Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland

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of St Andrews 1500: William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen 1507: Alexander Gordon, Bishop of Aberdeen 1514: David, Abbot of Arbroath 1519: George Crichton...

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

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Herman Melville and Jules Verne. The book comprises a preface, 25 chapters, and an afterword, with a total of around 72,000 words. Arthur Gordon Pym was...

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Andrew Melville

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B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. pp. 13–21. Retrieved 22 April 2019. Gordon, Alexander (1894). "Melville, Andrew (1545-1622)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of...

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1954 World Figure Skating Championships

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List of governors of Edinburgh Castle

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to be appointed after the death in 1876 of Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville. The office was revived in 1936 as an honorary title for the General Officer...

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Ross Martin

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(January 29, 2016). "Hamilton actors: Who's played Alexander in theater, TV and movies?". Newsday. Melville, New York. Retrieved May 9, 2019. "Columbo: Suitable...

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Highland Society of London

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of Montrose 1781 Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon 1782 Lord Adam Gordon 1783 John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl 1784 Lord Adam Gordon 1785 John Murray...

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Mary Livingston

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Robertson, Inventaires (Edinburgh, 1863), p. clviii: William Fraser, The Melvilles: Melville & Leven Correspondence, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1890), p. 8 no. 9. Calendar...

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Sheriff of Aberdeen

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1439–1445 Alexander Forbes – 1440 – Deputy Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford, 1445–1453 Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly, 1453 Alexander Douglas-...

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List of Scottish poets

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John Mayne Isabella Fyvie Mayo Robert Murray M'Cheyne Gordon Meade Elizabeth Melville James Melville William Mercer William Meston William Julius Mickle...

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Bell Telephone Company

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exposition, Visible Speech —developed earlier by his equally famous father Alexander Melville Bell. Pivotally, late in the evening moments after the main group...

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List of people educated at Edinburgh Academy

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Gordon Honeycombe, author, playwright and stage actor, TV newscaster (EA 1947-55) Andrew Lang, Scottish poet and novelist (EA 1854-61) Alan Melville,...

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