David Gray collection 1876-1892

Mill, Hugh Robert, 1861-1950

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Hugh Robert Mill was born at Thurso, Scotland, on 28 May 1861. He read chemistry and physics at Edinburgh University and specialised in marine chemistry, working on the scientific reports of the Challenger expedition under Sir John Murray. In 1887, he became lecturer in geography and physiography at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, and four years later, published The realm of nature, an important textbook of scientific geography. In 1892, he was appointed librarian of the Royal Geogr...

Gray, David, 1950-

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David Gray was a contemporary of the geographer and meteorologist Hugh Robert Mill (1861-1950) From the guide to the David Gray collection, 1876-1892, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) Epithet: Charge d'Affaires at Berlin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000982.0x000006 ...

Gray David fl 1876-1892

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Smith, Benjamin Leigh, 1828-1913

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Benjamin Leigh Smith was born on 12 March 1828 at Whatlington, Sussex. He was educated at the Nonconformist Bruce Castle School and, in 1848, was elected a pensioner of Jesus College, Cambridge, becoming the first dissenter to receive a BA degree. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1856, but never practised. Smith embarked on his first voyage to the Arctic in 1871 when he sailed in the ketch Samson to Svalbard on the British Exploring Expedition, reaching la...