 | Joseph Dalton Hooker - Himalaya Mountains - 1854 - 506 pages
...Hodgson, Esq., BCS, for many years Resident at the Nepal Court ; whose guest I became for several months. Mr. Hodgson's high position as a man of science requires...seldom had a staff of less than from ten to twenty persons (often many more), of various tongues and races, employed as translators and collectors, artists,... | |
 | J. J. Higginbotham - British - 1874 - 558 pages
...pursuit, no example to follow, no rival to equal or surpass ; he had never been acquainted with ะป scientific man, and knew nothing of science except...this period he has seldom had a staff of less than ton to twenty persons (often many more), of various longues and races employed as translators and collectors,... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - India - 1896 - 450 pages
...by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, KCSI, CB, FRS, p. xi, ed. 1854, and p. xiii, Minerva Edition of 1891. been acquainted with a scientific man, and knew nothing...seldom had a staff of less than from ten to twenty persons (often many more), of various tongues and races, employed as translators and collectors, artists,... | |
 | Joseph Dalton Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker - Himalaya Mountains - 1905 - 664 pages
...had never been acquainted with a scientific man, and kne.v nothing of science except the name. 'I he natural history of men and animals, in its most comprehensive...and commenced the study of ethnology and zoology. Mis labours have now extended over upwards of twenty-five years' residence in the Himalaya. During... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - History - 1991 - 422 pages
...by Sir Joseph Dalton HooKer, KCSI, CB, FRS, p. xi, ed. 1854, and p. xiii, Minerva Edition of 1891. been acquainted with a scientific man, and knew nothing...seldom had a staff of less than from ten to twenty persons (often many more), of various tongues and races, employed as translators and collectors, artists,... | |
 | Henry Walter Bates - Amazon River Valley - 2004 - 460 pages
...months. Mr. Hodgson's high position as a man of science requires no mention here; but the difficulties be overcame, and the sacrifices he made, in attaining...seldom had a staff of less than from ten to twenty persons (often many more), of various tongues and races, employed as translators and collectors, artists,... | |
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Nepal when very young, and in indifferent health ; and finding time to spare, cast about for the best method of employing it : he had no one to recommend or direct a pursuit, no example to follow, no rival to equal or surpass ; he had never been acquainted... 