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Yule set to work to collect materials, and was so successful that he was able to contribute a very brief, but exceptionally valuable and interesting, memoir of sixteen pages to the Royal Engineers' Journal in He entertained a hope of utilising the materials he had brought together at some future time in a memoir on a larger scale; but that time never came.
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Excerpt from Major James Rennel and the Rise of Modern English Geography
Yule set to work to collect materials, and was so successful that he was able to contribute a very brief, but exceptionally valuable and interesting, memoir of sixteen pages to the Royal Engineers' Journal in He entertained a hope of utilising the materials he had brought together at some future time in a memoir on a larger scale; but that time never came.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Major James Rennel and the Rise of Modern English Geography
James Rennell was the greatest geographer that Great Britain has yet produced. His pre-eminence, as Sir Henry Yule said in 1881, is still undisputed. But this is not the sole reason for selecting him as the representative of geography. He was not only the greatest, he was also the most many-sided devotee of the science. He was an explorer both by sea and land, a map compiler, a physical geographer, a critical and comparative geographer, and a hydrographer.
When the present writer had occasion to prepare a notice of Major Rennell for his "Memoir of the Indian Surveys," he had some difficulty in finding materials. He consulted Sir Henry Yule in 1878, who took great interest on general grounds, but especially because Rennell was the most distinguished ornament of the corps to which he himself belonged - the Bengal Engineers. The interest was renewed by the discovery of a porcelain medallion of Major Rennell at the India Office, by Sir George Birdwood. Sir Henry had it photographed, and the result was so successful that the editor of the Royal Engineers Journal proposed to publish it, and requested Sir Henry to furnish a sketch of Rennell's career as an accompaniment.
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