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On This Day: 29th of September
On this day in 1773:
MS Cullen 141
James Kerr sent this botanical illustration of Mimosa Coira to William Cullen from Calcutta.
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1960
Bernard Hague died.
On this day in 1812
Archibald William Montgomerie 13th Earl of Eglinton and 1st Earl of Wintoun was born.
On this day in 1994
James Harrison Renwick died.
On this day in 1867
Samuel Westwood Ballardie was born.
On this day in 1944
Edward Henry Fyffe died.
On this day in 1869
David Harris was born.
On this day in 1864
Edward Pleydell Bouverie Kerr was born.
On this day in 1850
Andrew Munro was born.
On this day in 1869
William Phillips was born.
On this day in 1871
Edward James Primrose was born.
On this day in 1871
John Sinclair was born.
On this day in 1871
John Barr Stevens was born.
On this day in 1863
John Alexander was born.
On this day in 1875
Helen Stephen Baird was born.
On this day in 1878
John Stoddart Barr was born.
On this day in 1852
John Morton Buchanan was born.
On this day in 1883
Harold Windley Dempster was born.
On this day in 1877
John Faichney was born.
On this day in 1879
Thomas Scoular Fleming was born.
On this day in 1887
Thomas Campbell Gibson was born.
On this day in 1877
Charles Aikman Gourlay was born.
On this day in 1888
Mary Harper Herriot was born.
On this day in 1873
Charles Forbes Maclean was born.
On this day in 1888
Alexander McCrorie was born.
On this day in 1878
David Walker McLean was born.
On this day in 1886
John Duncan Milne was born.
On this day in 1882
Hugh Paterson was born.
On this day in 1887
Numa Joseph Sellier was born.
On this day in 1886
Thomas Philip Tindall was born.
On this day in 1892
Frederick John De Souza was born.
On this day in 1887
Michael Czirjek was born.
On this day in 1876
Peter Gordon was born.
On this day in 1893
Elsie Munro was born.
On this day in 1892
Frederick John de Souza was born.
On this day in 1894
Esther Selkirk was born.
On this day in 1894
Eliza Reid Hodgart Maclure was born.
On this day in 1930
Morag Timbury was born.