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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Robert Stewart MacDougall + Eliza Henrietta Huie – webtrees".
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