Miscellaneous French material [manuscript]. 1792-1840.

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Miscellaneous French material [manuscript]. 1792-1840.

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Letter from Corneille Cornelisz (1792) to Jean Isac Rhenius containing meteorological information on New Holland-New Guinea area, mentioning Chrétien Van Veerden, Guillaume Udemanus, Jean Arnout Voltelen, Nicholas Acher, Bernard Herb and Marinus van Vlaanderen. Biographical information about Duperrey, hydrographer on "La Coquille" with L. de Freycinet; Bérard, hydrographer under Duperrey and Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell, concerning charting of Corsica. Extract from "Athenaeum", 1838, re. Polar expedition of D'Urville. Beautemps-Beaupré - document re. charting of Santa Cruz by Carteret, and by D'Entrecasteaux. Recommendation to the Academy of Gauttier, Frederic Lutké, William Fitzwilliam Owen, James Clark Ross and Baron de Wrangle.

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De Hell, Anne Chrétien Louis.

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Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César, 1790-1842

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Cornelisz, Corneille

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Duperrey, Louis-Isidore, 1786-1865

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Physicist and naval officer. Duperrey accompanied de Freycinet on the "Uranie" around the world to study meteorology and terrestrial magnetism 1817-1820. He commanded the "Coquille" on an expedition to Oceania and South America 1822-1825. From the description of Transcripts of documents from Duperrey's voyage, 1822-1825. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81483303 ...

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Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses ˜deœ 1779-1842

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Cartographic surveyor and naturalist. In 1800 Louis de Freycinet joined an expedition under Nicolas Baudin to explore the south and south-west coasts of Australia in the ships Naturaliste and Geographe. He commanded an expedition to circumnavigate the globe and conduct research into the shape of the Earth, meteorology and terrestrial magnetism, sailing from Toulon in September 1817 in L'Uranie with his wife Rose, who secreted herself aboard. He set up an observatory at Shark Bay and charted the ...