Journal of jurisprudence and Scottish law magazine.

Includes court reports.

The dialect of Banffshire; with a glossary of words not in Jamieson's Scottish dictionary.

On spine: Banffshire words.

The imperial gazetteer of Scotland; or, Dictionary of Scottish topography, compiled from the most recent authorities, and forming a complete body of Scottish geography, physical, statistical, and historical.

Mode of access: Internet.

Three centuries of Scottish literature,

v. 1. The reformation of the Union.--v. 2. The Union to Scott.

Scottish colonial schemes, 1620-1686,

Mode of access: Internet.

Poets of America /

Includes index.

Ancient and modern Scottish songs, heroic ballads, etc.; reprinted from the edition of 1776, with an appendix containing the pieces substituted in the edition of 1791 for omissions from that of 1776.

Mode of access: Internet.

Lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works /

Publisher's advertisements at end of each vol.

Works of Robert Burns: with an account of his life, and criticism on his writings. to which are prefixed, some observtions on the character and condition of the Scottish peasantry.

Mode of access: Internet.

Hullinia; or, Selections from local history, including the siege of Hull, our ancient churchyards, and past poets of Hull.

Mode of access: Internet.

Nichol's library edition of the British poets [with memoir and critical dissertation

Binders title: Library edition of the British poets.

Surveys of Scottish history,

Introduction.--Methods of writing history.--The moulding of the Scottish nation.--The Scottish nobility and their part in the national history.--The régime of the later Stewarts in Scotland.--The union of the parliaments of England and Scotland, 1707.--Four representative documents of Scottish history.--Scotland in the eighteenth century.--Intellectual influences of Scotland on the continent.--A forgotten scholar of the sixteenth century [Florence Volusene]--Literature and history.--John Napier of Merchiston.

Genetic effects of chronic habitat fragmentation on tree species: the case of Sorbus aucuparia in a deforested Scottish landscape

Sustainable forest restoration and management practices require a thorough understanding of the influence that habitat fragmentation has on the processes shaping genetic variation and its distribution in tree populations. We quantified genetic variation at isozyme markers and chloroplast DNA (cpDNA), analysed by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) in severely fragmented populations of Sorbus aucuparia (Rosaceae) in a single catchment (Moffat) in southern Scotland. Remnants maintain surprisingly high levels of gene diversity (H-E) for isozymes (H-E = 0.195) and cpDNA markers (H-E = 0.490). Estimates are very similar to those from non-fragmented populations in continental Europe, even though the latter were sampled over a much larger spatial scale. Overall, no genetic bottleneck or departures from random mating were detected in the Moffat fragments. However, genetic differentiation among remnants was detected for both types of marker (isozymes Theta(n) = 0.043, cpDNA Theta(c) = 0.131; G-test, P-value < 0.001). In this self-incompatible, insect-pollinated, bird-dispersed tree species, the estimated ratio of pollen flow to seed flow between fragments is close to 1 (r = 1.36). Reduced pollen-mediated gene flow is a likely consequence of habitat fragmentation, but effective seed dispersal by birds is probably helping to maintain high levels of genetic diversity within remnants and reduce genetic differentiation between them.

Genetic differentiation in Scottish populations of the pine beauty moth, Panolis flammea (Lepidoptera : Noctuidae)

Pine beauty moth, Panolis flammea (Denis & Schiffermuller), is a recent but persistent pest of lodgepole pine plantations in Scotland, but exists naturally at low levels within remnants and plantations of Scots pine. To test whether separate host races occur in lodgepole and Scots pine stands and to examine colonization dynamics, allozyme, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and mitochondrial variation were screened within a range of Scottish samples. RAPD analysis indicated limited long distance dispersal (F-ST=0.099), and significant isolation by distance (P < 0.05); but that colonization between more proximate populations was often variable, from extensive to limited exchange. When compared with material from Germany, Scottish samples were found to be more diverse and significantly differentiated for all markers. For mtDNA, two highly divergent groups of haplotypes were evident, one group contained both German and Scottish samples and the other was predominantly Scottish. No genetic differentiation was evident between P. flammea populations sampled from different hosts, and no diversity bottleneck was observed in the lodgepole group. Indeed, lodgepole stands appear to have been colonized on multiple occasions from Scots pine sources and neighbouring populations on different hosts are close to panmixia.