Natural history societies, fieldwork and local knowledge in nineteenth-century Scotland: Towards a historical geography of civic science

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 334-353

  Withers, Charles W J ^a   Finnegan, Diarmid A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELDWORK; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; NINETEENTH CENTURY;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

VICTORIA;

EID: 0345392518     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1474474003eu278oa     Document Type: Article

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