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A comprehensive and definitive account of Scotland's minerals and the men who discovered, collected and examined them. This study includes sections on the collectors themselves as well as a brief account of Scotland's geological evolution.
A short account of the making of Livingston new town describing some of the achievements and challenges since 1962 in creating a sub-regional centre of 45,000 people from a greenfield site to the west of Edinburgh.
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The Livingstons of Livingston Manor provides a rich history of one of the most important families in the early history of New York State as well as the fledgling nation. Livingston Manor—granted to Robert Livingston the Elder (1654–1728) via royal charter from King George I of Britain in 1716—embraced 160,000 acres, including nearly all of what is today Columbia County as well as much of Sullivan and Delaware Counties. The primary family estate in Germantown, NY, where the leaders of the clan lived for more than two hundred years starting in 1728, Clermont on the Hudson River, is now a New York State Historic Site. Succeeding generations included "Chancellor" Robert R. Livingston (1746...
Robert Livingston was born in 1654 at Ancrum on the Reviot, Roxburgh, Scotland, and went to Holland with his exiled parents in 1663. He immigrated to Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1673, and moved to Albany, New York. He married Alida Schuyler Van Rensselaer, and died in 1728.