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1785–1873, English geologist. He was a professor at Cambridge from 1818. His most important work was a study, made with R. I. Murchison, of the rock...
1874–1922, British antarctic explorer, b. Ireland. The first of his voyages to Antarctica was made as a member of the expedition (1901–4) of Rober...
1863–1932, American geographer, b. Louisville, Ky., grad. Vassar, 1882, and studied at the Univ. of Leipzig. A follower of the German geographer Rat...
(skôrz´b ) (KEY) , 1789–1857, English arctic explorer and scientist. He made yearly voyages (1803–22) to Greenland, at first on his father’s w...
(ô´t sv r´dr p) (KEY) , 1855–1930, Norwegian arctic explorer. A companion of Fridtjof Nansen on the voyage across Greenland in 1888 and on Nanse...
(mät ´äs yä´kôp shl ´d n) (KEY) , 1804–81, German botanist. He was professor at the universities of Jena (1839–63) and Dorpat (1863–64). ...