John Augustus Jack Grant Mackie

A Tribute to Jack Grant-Mackie

• Author(s): John Augustus (Jack) Grant-Mackie

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2022
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Captain Jack, Surveyor and Engineer

• Author(s): John Bullamore Mackie

• Categories: Mining engineers

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2007
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Diary of John Mackie

• Author(s): John Mackie (1816)

• Type: Book
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• Published: Unknown
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• Publisher: Unknown

Diary kept by John Mackie during a voyage from England to South Australia aboard the 'Oregon', 24 June - 20 December 1851.

Mackie & Jack

• Author(s): Jan William George Warren Smith

• Categories: Queensland

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2000
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Eponym Dictionary of Birds

• Author(s): Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson

• Categories: Nature

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2020-03-19
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• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Birdwatchers often come across bird names that include a person's name, either in the vernacular (English) name or latinised in the scientific nomenclature. Such names are properly called eponyms, and few people will not have been curious as to who some of these people were (or are). Names such as Darwin, Wallace, Audubon, Gould and (Gilbert) White are well known to most people. Keener birders will have yearned to see Pallas's Warbler, Hume's Owl, Swainson's Thrush, Steller's Eider or Brünnich's Guillemot. But few people today will have even heard of Albertina's Myna, Barraband's Parrot, Guerin's Helmetcrest or Savigny's Eagle Owl. This extraordinary new work lists more than 4,000 eponymous...