Society of Antiquaries of Scotland [ Clubs & Societies ]
… strong relationship between the SAS and Ireland. A more limited second circle was composed of members living in France , Spain, Poland, Italian cities, Russia, and Scandinavia. Some were purely honorary members, like Buffon and Diderot, … the convent of Würtsburgh in the Bavarian region. (Van Damme 171) In the eighteenth century, the network just started to span across the Atlantic with the election of Benjamin Smith Barton , an American naturalist at Philadelphia University. …
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