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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CHAMBERSIELLUS. Zool. A fossil trilobites of the Lower Cambrian period (1975 A. Lamont in Sc. Jnl. Science I. 206).
[After Robert Chambers (1802nd.71), of Peebles, encyclopaedist and publisher, supporter of Darwinian theory.]