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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LIVINGSTONE. After David Livingstone (1813–73), of Blantyre, African missionary and explorer. Hence Livingstonite, in Geol., mercury antimony sulphide (1874 Barcena Naturaleza III. 35); livingstonianus, a specif. name for an Oreas or Taurotragus, an antelope from Central Africa (1864 Sclater in Proc. Zool. Soc. 105), and various others; livingstonii, a specif. name of a Touraco or East African plantain-eater, called after David's brother, Charles (1821–73), also an African explorer.
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