Books by "sir Clements Robert Markham"
12 books found
The Voyage of Robert Dudley, Afterwards Styled Earl of Warwick and Leicester and Duke of Northumberland, to the West Indies, 1594-1595
by Sir Robert Dudley, Abram Kendall
1899
Antarctic exploration: a plea for a national expedition. With report of the Royal society's Antarctic conference [&c.].
by sir Charles Robert Markham
1898
The Royal Navy
by Sir William Laird Clowes, Sir Clements Robert Markham, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard George Carr Laughton
1900
Address...on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Hakluyt Society
by Sir Clements Robert Markham
1911
Storm Van 's Gravesande
by Laurens Storm van 's Gravesande, Sir Charles Alexander Harris
1911 · London s.n.
"Markham, a Victorian geographer and explorer, conceived the notion of a cheap supply of quinine for the treatment of malaria for use in India. He organized several teams to go to Peru to collect the most promising varieties of cinchona, one of which he lead himself. After suffering great hardship in the jungle he managed to obtain some 500 seedlings, but they all died en route to India. Another of his teams was lead by Richard Spruce who did obtain seedlings and seeds, although they later proved to be of a variety that did not produce the largest amount of quinine. The work is an interesting adventure and description of events and is a valuable part of the story of the development of a cure for malaria, which is still of major concern. The author discusses the merits and locations of many cinchona varieties and related plants"--description from abebooks website.
A naval career during the old war: a narrative of the life of admiral John Markham [by sir C.R. Markham.].
by sir Clements Robert Markham
1883