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2 unusual facts about John Baird Simpson


John Baird Simpson

He carried out a lot of the early earliest mapping of the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland, including the Lewisian of Coll and Tiree, the Mesozoic sediments and Tertiary lavas of Morvern and Ardnamurchan, and the Moine Schists of Ardnamurchan, Sunart and South Morar.

He joined the Royal Engineers that same year, and was then commissioned in the Gordon Highlanders.



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