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The Fifty Years’ Work of the Royal Geographical Society

By Clements R. Markham

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781108004602
Google Books ID
sgSFQAAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11032714 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - History
Edition
Reissue
Pages
268\268
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

In 1880, the Royal Geographical Society commissioned Sir Clements R. Markham, a noted British geographer and the Society's secretary, to write a history of its formation, and of the many expeditions it had supported since 1830, to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Published in 1881, The Fifty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society consists of twelve chapters. The first five are a condensed history of the original group of geographers who called themselves the Raleigh Club, and the events leading up to the Society's official formation. Chapters 6 and 7 recount the activities of past presidents, secretaries and leading members of the Society, with the rest of the book detailing the fascinating scientific expeditions the Society sponsored financially from the Arctic to Antarctica, the explorers who took part in them, and the various publications the Society published to advance natural science and exploration.

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