Observatoire de Nice. Souvenir de l'association Internationale Géodésique (Session 1887). Entrée du Gd. Equatorial. Photographer: Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of delegates and family members, gathered on the steps of the Great Equatorial Telescope building of Nice Observatory. A printed key on the following page identifies the participants as: Col. de Stefanis (delegate, from Florence), Capt. Defforges (dele...
Types principaux des différentes races humaines, dans les cinq parties du monde. Modeléles sous la diréction du Pr. Baer de St. Petersbourg. Photographer(s): Unknown
YULE, Sir HENRY (1820-1889) Yule served in India with the Bengal Engineers from 1840 to 1862. He was first posted to the Khasi Hills, Assam, where he ...
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YULE, Sir HENRY (1820-1889) Yule served in India with the Bengal Engineers from 1840 to 1862. He was first posted to the Khasi Hills, Assam, where he became interested in the customs and megaliths of the Khasis. In 1843 he was sent to the Punjab to work on the west Jumma canals. At the end o...