Biography Category
1802–78, American hydrographer; son of Edmund March Blunt, a pioneer publisher of nautical books and charts in Newburyport, Mass. He established (18...
(py r gäbr l´ dwär´ bôNväl ´) (KEY) , 1853–1933, French explorer and author. In 1880–82 he visited central Asia, explored Kohistan, and r...
1821–93, English explorer in Africa. He explored the Nile tributaries in Ethiopia in 1861–62. Going up the Nile from Cairo, he reached Gondokoro i...
1796–1856, British admiral and Arctic explorer. He accompanied an expedition N of Spitsbergen in 1818 and wrote an account of it in his Voyage of Di...
1889–1938, American geneticist, b. Schuyler Falls, N.Y., grad. Columbia (B.S., 1912; Ph.D., 1916). In his research he collaborated with T. H. Morgan...
(sp rz) (KEY) , 1867–1921, Scottish explorer and authority on the polar regions. He first went to the Antarctic as ship’s surgeon in 1892 and late...