Sir Erasmus Ommanney collection 1857-1902

Ommanney Erasmus 1814-1904

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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...

Sir Erasmus Ommanney

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Erasmus Ommanney was born in 1814. He entered the Royal Navy in 1826, serving the following year with the allied forces at the Battle of Navarino in the Mediterranean. In 1836, he joined the British Relief Expedition (leader James Clark Ross), as third lieutenant in HMS Cove, organized by the Admiralty to rescue the crews of eleven whaling vessels that had been beset and forced to winter in Davis Strait in 1835. Advancing to commander in 1840, Ommanney served in HMS Vesuvius in the ...