Society of Antiquaries of Scotland [ Clubs & Societies ]
… Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, in Archaeologia Scotica: or Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, volume I. Printed by W. and A. Smellie, printers to the Society, for W. Creech, Edinburgh, and T. Cadell, London, 1792. … was officially created by a group of aristocrats, literati, printers, politicians, and other professionals. As the first volume edited by the society reports, some founding members ‘had made private collections, and were anxious that these, … of John Napier, of Merchiston , the inventor of logarithms. However, Minto emigrated to the United States and the other volumes of the collection never came out. Buchan cherished another project, a collection of portraits of famous Scots ( …
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