The military background of John W. Pringle, in 1826 founding superintendent of the geological survey of Ireland

Irish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-70

  Rose, Edward P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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