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- ↑ A Sailor in the Sahara, J. B. Lockhart
- ↑ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1818
- ↑ Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, vol 3, p.539
- ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ↑ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1820
- ↑ The Edinburgh Annual Register 1821
- ↑ British Medical Journal 1857
- ↑ Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal vol 15
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