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SIR JOHN DAWSON - LoveToKnow Article on SIR JOHN DAWSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Sir William Dawsons name is especially associated with the Eozoon canadense, which in 1864 he described as an organism having the structure of a foraminifer. |
 | | His son, GEORGE MERCER DAWSON (1849-1901), was born at Pictou on the 1st of August 1849, and received his education at MGill University and the Royal School of Mines, London, where he had a brilliant career. |
 | | DAWSON CITY, or DAWSON, the capital of the Yukon territory, Canada, on the right bank of the Yukon river, and in the middle of the Klondyke gold region, of which it is the distributing centre. |
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