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Dawson-Harrington Families Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 1022
  • Fonds
  • 1800-1972

The Dawson-Harrington Families Fonds follows the family of Sir John William Dawson, geologist and Principal of McGill University from 1855-1893, through four generations, including both personal and scientific papers of John William Dawson, his son-in law, B. J. Harrington, and his son, explorer, geologist, and Director of the Geological Survey George Mercer Dawson. Other family members include James Dawson, father to Sir John William Dawson, a Scots immigrant to Nova Scotia, printer, stationer, unsuccessful investor and zealous Presbyterian; John William's wife Margaret Mercer; their children William Bell Dawson, an engineer, Rankine Dawson, a physician, and Anna Lois Dawson. Also represented are Anna Dawson Harrington and B. J. Harrington's children, Eva Dawson and her husband, Hope Atkin, and their families

Dawson-Harrington Families

Notes, December 1884

Two pages of notes with the titles “Note on [Topul] Woods from Yukon Territory, Dec 1884,” “Specimens from Belly River in black carbonaceous shale,” and “Finil Woods, Rink rapids, Lewis River.”

Dawson, John William, Sir, 1820-1899

Map of Egypt

Map of Egypt. Contains an extensive note on Tel-el-Maskhuta; surveyed by Lieutenant Colonel Ardagh, Major Spaight and Lieutenant Burton; lithographed at the Intelligence Branch, War Office, under the direction of Major W.R. Fox; 2 copies of the same map.

Geological map of Wisconsin

Geological map of Wisconsin. Includes the text: Geological Survey of Wisconsin, showing the relations of its geology with that of the surrounding states; Compiled from the work of the geological surveys of Wisconsin and Iowa, and from the surveys of Dr. D.D. Owen, Foster and Whitney, and Professor A. Winchell.

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