Sir Douglas Haig's command, December 19, 1915, to November 11, 1918,

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Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid, 1842-1885;

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Catalogue of the valuable collection of Sanskrit manuscripts of Sir Robert Chambers which will be sold by auction, unless previously disposed of by private contract on or before the first of March 1842, by S. Leigh Sotheby on Apr. 13, 1842 and three following days.

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The currency question : the memorials addressed by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce to Sir Robert Peel, with his replies from July 30 to December 12, 1842.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 33297.

A sermon preached at the ordination of Rev. Amos Smith : as Colleague Pastor of the New North Church in Boston, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1842 /

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Morocco as it is, with an account of Sir Charles Euan Smith's recent mission to Fez,

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Recollections of four years' service in the East with H. M. fortieth regiment : comprising an account of the taking of Kurachee in Lower Scinde, in 1839, operations in Upper Scinde in 1840 and 1841, and the operations of the Candahar Division of "The Avenging Army of the Afghanistan" in 1841 and 1842, under Major-General Sir w. Nott, G.C.B. /

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Humpback and Fin Whaling in the Gulf of Maine from 1800 to 1918

The history of whaling in the Gulf of Maine was reviewed primarily to estimate removals of humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, especially during the 19th century. In the decades from 1800 to 1860, whaling effort consisted of a few localized, small-scale, shore-based enterprises on the coast of Maine and Cape Cod, Mass. Provincetown and Nantucket schooners occasionally conducted short cruises for humpback whales in New England waters. With the development of bomb-lance technology at mid century, the ease of killing humpback whales and fin whales, Balaenoptera physalus, increased. As a result, by the 1870’s there was considerable local interest in hunting rorquals (baleen whales in the family Balaenopteridae, which include the humpback and fin whales) in the Gulf of Maine. A few schooners were specially outfitted to take rorquals in the late 1870’s and 1880’s although their combined annual take was probably no more than a few tens of whales. Also in about 1880, fishing steamers began to be used to hunt whales in the Gulf of Maine. This steamer fishery grew to include about five vessels regularly engaged in whaling by the mid 1880’s but dwindled to only one vessel by the end of the decade. Fin whales constituted at least half of the catch, which exceeded 100 animals in some years. In the late 1880’s and thereafter, few whales were taken by whaling vessels in the Gulf of Maine.

The scramble for the seas : the ballad evidence of Sir Andrew Barton

The presence and importance of the sea as a factor that has helped shape the history of England since at least the Roman invasions of 55-54 BC (less successful, incidentally, than most of Caesar’s other military ventures ...) need no particular urging or demonstration. Nonetheless, a bird’s-eye view would necessarily survey the waves of invasions and settlements that, one after the other, came dashing over the centuries upon England’s shores; not to mention the requested invasion of 1688, Angles and Saxons, Scandinavians, Normans, they all crossed the whale’s path and cast anchor in England’s green and pleasant land. In the course of this retrospective voyage through the oceans of History, one would inevitably stop at the so-called ‘Discoveries’ of the 15th-16th centuries, meet their navigators, sailors and pirates extolled by Richard Hakluyt (1553?-1616), face an anonymous crowd of merchants and witness the huge expansion of trade, largely to the benefit of the ‘discovering’ countries as prescribed by the economic Gospel Adam Smith (1723-90) would later baptize as “mercantilism”.

B.N. Peach letter, 1918.

Ben N. Peach (1842-1926) was a well-known geologist whose work focused on the geological structure of Scotland, and in particular the Northwest Scottish Highlands and Southern Uplands. He formed a close working relationship with John Horne and the two colloborated on many works, most notably two memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, The Silurian Rocks of Britain (1899) and The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland (1907).