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Local Descriptionpp x, 386. Complete with plates, illustrations and map. Contemporary half morocco. With neat gilt crest stamped on spine and frontboard. A very nice copy. DescriptionStephen Hislop Pioneer Missionary & Naturalist in Central India from 1844-1863 Stephen Hislop (8 September 1817, in Duns, Scotland – 4 September 1863, in Takalghat) was a Scottish missionary who worked with the Free Church in India, an educationist and a keen geologist. Hislop College, Nagpur is named after him, as is the green mineral Hislopite. Among his geological discoveries is the fossil reptile, Brachyops laticeps which he found in his geological explorations of the Nagpur region. |