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Henry Newton Dickson

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19: 357: 400: 390: 281: 420: 425: 395: 128: 31: 435: 415: 39: 35: 66:(1817-1889), a paper manufacturer with James Dickson & Co. He was raised at the family home at 38 York Place in the 430: 300: 294: 410: 405: 109: 361: 334: 136: 120: 105: 43:(24 June 1866 – 2 April 1922) was a Scottish geographer, meteorologist and oceanographer from Edinburgh. 97: 210: 74: 78: 46:
He was strongly involved in the later phases of the deciphering of the masses of data from the
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The Greater War: Other Combatants and Other Fronts 1914-1918, by Jonathan Krause
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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in 1911–1912 and President of Section E (Geography and Ethnology) of the
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he was seconded as Head of the Geographical Section, to the
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38 York Place, Edinburgh: the childhood home of H N Dickson
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In 1888, aged only 21, he was elected a Fellow of the
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From 1906 to 1920 he was a professor of geography at
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whose final findings were not published until 1895.
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CBE
FRSE
FRGS
Challenger expedition
Edinburgh
FRSE
New Town
University of Edinburgh
P. G. Tait
G. Chrystal
University of Oxford
Halford Mackinder
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Peter Guthrie Tait
Sir John Murray
Alexander Buchan
George Chrystal
University College, Reading
First World War
Naval Intelligence Division
Admiralty
Royal Meteorological Society
British Association
Edinburgh
Meteorology: the elements of weather and climate
Climate and weather
Year-book and record
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