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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REOCHIUS. Zool. A fossil pod-shrimp of the family Malacostraca of the Cambrian period (1975 A. Lamont in Sc. Jnl. Science 207–8).
[After Rev. J. W. Reoch of Glasgow, pioneer photographer of geological subjects.]
