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- 1 2 3 4 5 Pat Monaghan takes up Regius Chair of Zoology, University News, University of Glasgow; read 8. July 2015.
- ↑ "Appointment". The Times (36850). London. 19 August 1902. p. 7.
- ↑ The University of Glasgow Story Zoology (Regius Chair); on the website of the University of Glasgow, read 21. January 2015.
