Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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CAMPBELLII. Zool. After John Campbell (1766–1840), of Edinburgh, traveller and missionary in South Africa, used as a specific name of a S. African antelope Cephalophus (1846 J. E. Gray in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XVIII. 164), and insect, Cremastocheilus (1842 W. Saunders in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. X. (62) 67).
