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[13] Obituary notice of Yule, by Gen. R. Maclagan, R.E. Proceedings, R. G. S. 1890.
[14] This was the famous “Grey Dinner,” of which The Shepherd made grim fun in the Noctes.
[15] Probably the specimen from South America, of which an account was published in 1833.
[16] Rawnsley, Memoir of Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle.
[17] Biog. Sketch of Yule, by C. Trotter, Proceedings, R.S.E. vol. xvii.
[18] Biog. Sketch of Yule, by C. Trotter, Proceedings, R.S.E. vol. xvii.
[19] After leaving the army, Yule always used this sword when wearing uniform.
[20] The Engineer cadets remained at Addiscombe a term (= 6 months) longer than the Artillery cadets, and as the latter were ordinarily gazetted full lieutenants six months after passing out, unfair seniority was obviated by the Engineers receiving the same rank on passing out of Addiscombe.
[21] Yule, in Memoir of General Becher.
[22] Collinson’s Memoir of Yule in R. E. Journal.
[23] The picture was subscribed for by his brother officers in the corps, and painted in 1880 by T. B. Wirgman. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1881. A reproduction of the artist’s etching from it forms the frontispiece of this volume.
[24] In Memoir of Gen. John Becher.
[25] General Patrick Yule (b. 1795, d. 1873) was a thorough soldier, with the repute of being a rigid disciplinarian. He was a man of distinguished presence, and great charm of manner to those whom he liked, which were by no means all. The present writer holds him in affectionate remembrance, and owes to early correspondence with him much of the information embodied in preceding notes. He served on the Canadian Boundary Commission of 1817, and on the Commission of National Defence of 1859, was prominent in the Ordnance Survey, and successively Commanding R.E. in Malta and Scotland. He was Engineer to Sir C. Fellows’ Expedition, which gave the nation the Lycian Marbles, and while Commanding R.E. in Edinburgh, was largely instrumental in rescuing St. Margaret’s Chapel in the Castle from desecration and oblivion. He was a thorough Scot, and never willingly tolerated the designation N.B. on even a letter. He had cultivated tastes, and under a somewhat austere exterior he had a most tender heart. When already past sixty, he made a singularly happy marriage to a truly good woman, who thoroughly appreciated him. He was the author of several Memoirs on professional subjects. He rests in St. Andrew’s, Gulane.
[26] Collinson’s Memoir of Yule.
[27] Notes on the Iron of the Khasia Hills and Notes on the Khasia Hills and People, both in Journal of the R. Asiatic Society of Bengal, vols. xi. and xiii.
[28] Mr. (afterwards Sir) George Clerk, Political Officer with the expedition. Was twice Governor of Bombay and once Governor of the Cape: “A diplomatist of the true English stamp—undaunted in difficulties and resolute to maintain the honour of his country.” (Sir H. B. Edwardes, Life of Henry Lawrence, i. 267). He died in 1889.
[29] Note by Yule, communicated by him to Mr. R. B. Smith and printed by the latter in Life of Lord Lawrence.
[30] And when nearing his own end, it was to her that his thoughts turned most constantly.
[31] Yule and Maclagan’s Memoir of Sir W. Baker.
[32] Maclagan’s Memoir of Yule, P.R.G.S., Feb. 1890.
[33] On hearing this, Yule said to him, “Your story is quite correct except in one particular; you understated the amount of the fine.”
[34] Yule and Maclagan’s Memoir of Baker.
[35] It would appear that Major Yule had presented the Rodgers with some specimens of Indian scissors, probably as suggestions in developing that field of export. Scissors of elaborate design, usually damascened or gilt, used to form a most important item in every set of Oriental writing implements. Even long after adhesive envelopes had become common in European Turkey, their use was considered over familiar, if not actually disrespectful, for formal letters, and there was a particular traditional knack in cutting and folding the special envelope for each missive, which was included in the instruction given by every competent Khoja as the present writer well remembers in the quiet years that ended with the disasters of 1877.
[36] Collinson’s Memoir of Yule, Royal Engineer Journal.
[37] Extract from Preface to Ava, edition of 1858.
[38] The present whereabouts of this picture is unknown to the writer. It was lent to Yule in 1889 by Lord Dalhousie’s surviving daughter (for whom he had strong regard and much sympathy), and was returned to her early in 1890, but is not named in the catalogue of Lady Susan’s effects, sold at Edinburgh in 1898 after her death. At that sale the present writer had the satisfaction of securing for reverent preservation the watch used throughout his career by the great Marquess.
[39] Now in the writer’s possession. It was for many years on exhibition in the Edinburgh and South Kensington Museums.
[40] Article by Yule on Lord Lawrence, Quarterly Review for April, 1883.
[41] Messrs. Smith & Elder.
[42] Preface to Narrative of a Mission to the Court of Ava. Before these words were written, Yule had had the sorrow of losing his elder brother Robert, who had fallen in action before Delhi (19th June, 1857), whilst in command of his regiment, the 9th Lancers. Robert Abercromby Yule (born 1817) was a very noble character and a fine soldier. He had served with distinction in the campaigns in Afghanistan and the Sikh Wars, and was the author of an excellent brief treatise on Cavalry Tactics. He had a ready pencil and a happy turn for graceful verse. In prose his charming little allegorical tale for children, entitled The White Rhododendron, is as pure and graceful as the flower whose name it bears. Like both his brothers, he was at once chivalrous and devout, modest, impulsive, and impetuous. No officer was more beloved by his men than Robert Yule, and when some one met them carrying back his covered body from the field and enquired of the sergeant: “Who have you got there?” the reply was: “Colonel Yule, and better have lost half the regiment, sir.” It was in the chivalrous effort to extricate some exposed guns that he fell. Some one told afterwards that when asked to go to the rescue, he turned in the saddle, looked back wistfully on his regiment, well knowing the cost of such an enterprise, then gave the order to advance and charge. “No stone marks the spot where Yule went down, but no stone is needed to commemorate his valour” (Archibald Forbes, in Daily News, 8th Feb. 1876). At the time of his death Colonel R. A. Yule had been recommended for the C.B. His eldest son, Colonel J. H. Yule, C.B., distinguished himself in several recent campaigns (on the Burma-Chinese frontier, in Tirah, and South Africa).
[43] Baker went home in November, 1857, but did not retire until the following year.
[44] Nothing was more worthy of respect in Yule’s fine character than the energy and success with which he mastered his natural temperament in the last ten years of his life, when few would have guessed his original fiery disposition.
[45] Not without cause did Sir J. P. Grant officially record that “to his imperturbable temper the Government of India owed much.”
[46] Yule’s colour-blindness was one of the cases in which Dalton, the original investigator of this optical defect, took special interest. At a later date (1859) he sent Yule, through Professor Wilson, skeins of coloured silks to name. Yule’s elder brother Robert had the same peculiarity of sight, and it was also present in two earlier and two later generations of their mother’s family—making five generations in all. But in no case did it pass from parent to child, always passing in these examples, by a sort of Knight’s move, from uncle to nephew. Another peculiarity of Yule’s more difficult to describe was the instinctive association of certain architectural forms or images with the days of the week. He once, and once only (in 1843), met another person, a lady who was a perfect stranger, with the same peculiarity. About 1878–79 he contributed some notes on this obscure subject to one of the newspapers, in connection with the researches of Mr. Francis Galton, on Visualisation, but the particulars are not now accessible.
[47] From Yule’s verses on her grave.
[48] Lord Canning to Lady Clanricarde: Letter dated Barrackpoor, 19th Nov. 1861, 7 A.M., printed in Two Noble Lives, by A. J. C. Hare, and here reproduced by Mr. Hare’s permission.
[49] Lord Canning’s letter to Lady Clanricarde. He gave to Yule Lady Canning’s own silver drinking-cup, which she had constantly used. It is carefully treasured, with other Canning and Dalhousie relics, by the present writer.
[50] Many years later Yule wrote of Lord Canning as follows: “He had his defects, no doubt. He had not at first that entire grasp of the situation that was wanted at such a time of crisis. But there is a virtue which in these days seems unknown to Parliamentary statesmen in England—Magnanimity. Lord Canning was an English statesman, and he was surpassingly magnanimous. There is another virtue which in Holy Writ is taken as the type and sum of all righteousness—Justice—and he was eminently just. The misuse of special powers granted early in the Mutiny called for Lord Canning’s interference, and the consequence was a flood of savage abuse; the violence and bitterness of which it is now hard to realise.” (Quarterly Review, April, 1883, p. 306.)
[51] During the next ten years Yule continued to visit London annually for two or three months in the spring or early summer.
[52] Now in the writer’s possession. They appear in the well-known portrait of Lord Canning reading a despatch.
[53] Lord Canning’s recommendation had been mislaid, and the India Office was disposed to ignore it. It was Lord Canning’s old friend and Eton chum, Lord Granville, who obtained this tardy justice for Yule, instigated thereto by that most faithful friend, Sir Roderick Murchison.
[54] I cannot let the mention of this time of lonely sickness and trial pass without recording here my deep gratitude to our dear and honoured friend, John Ruskin. As my dear mother stood on the threshold between life and death at Mornex that sad spring, he was untiring in all kindly offices of friendship. It was her old friend, Principal A. J. Scott (then eminent, now forgotten), who sent him to call. He came to see us daily when possible, sometimes bringing MSS. of Rossetti and others to read aloud (and who could equal his reading?), and when she was too ill for this, or himself absent, he would send not only books and flowers to brighten the bare rooms of the hillside inn (then very primitive), but his own best treasures of Turner and W. Hunt, drawings and illuminated missals. It was an anxious solace; and though most gratefully enjoyed, these treasures were never long retained.
[55] Villa Mansi, nearly opposite the old Ducal Palace. With its private chapel, it formed three sides of a small place or court.
[56] He also at all times spared no pains to enforce that ideal on other index-makers, who were not always grateful for his sound doctrine!
[57] He saw a good deal of the outbreak when taking small comforts to a friend, the Commandant of the Military School, who was captured and imprisoned by the insurgents.
[58] After 1869 he discontinued sea-bathing.
[59] This was Yule’s first geographical honour, but he had been elected into the Athenæum Club, under “Rule II.,” in January, 1867.
[60] Garnier took a distinguished part in the Defence of Paris in 1870–71, after which he resumed his naval service in the East, where he was killed in action. His last letter to Yule contained the simple announcement “J’ai pris Hanoï” a modest terseness of statement worthy of the best naval traditions.
[61] One year the present writer, at her mother’s desire, induced him to take walks of 10 to 12 miles with her, but interesting and lovely as the scenery was, he soon wearied for his writing-table (even bringing his work with him), and thus little permanent good was effected. And it was just the same afterwards in Scotland, where an old Highland gillie, describing his experience of the Yule brothers, said: “I was liking to take out Sir George, for he takes the time to enjoy the hills, but (plaintively), the Kornel is no good, for he’s just as restless as a water-wagtail!” If there be any mal de l’écritoire corresponding to mal du pays, Yule certainly had it.
[62] The Russian Government in 1873 paid the same work the very practical compliment of circulating it largely amongst their officers in Central Asia.
[63] “Auch in den Literaturen von Frankreich, Italien, Deutschland und andere Ländern ist der mächtig treibende Einfluss der Yuleschen Methode, welche wissenschaftliche Grundlichkeit mit anmuthender Form verbindet, bemerkbar.” (Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, Band XVII. No. 2.)
[64] This subject is too lengthy for more than cursory allusion here, but the patient analytic skill and keen venatic instinct with which Yule not only proved the forgery of the alleged Travels of Georg Ludwig von —— (that had been already established by Lord Strangford, whose last effort it was, and Sir Henry Rawlinson), but step by step traced it home to the arch-culprit Klaproth, was nothing less than masterly.
[65] This is probably the origin of the odd misstatement as to Yule occupying himself at Palermo with photography, made in the delightful Reminiscences of the late Colonel Balcarres Ramsay. Yule never attempted photography after 1852.
[66] She was a woman of fine intellect and wide reading; a skilful musician, who also sang well, and a good amateur artist in the style of Aug. Delacroix (of whom she was a favourite pupil). Of French and Italian she had a thorough and literary mastery, and how well she knew her own language is shown by the sound and pure English of a story she published in early life, under the pseudonym of Max Lyle (Fair Oaks, or The Experiences of Arnold Osborne, M.D., 2 vols., 1856). My mother was partly of Highland descent on both sides, and many of her fine qualities were very characteristic of that race. Before her marriage she took an active part in many good works, and herself originated the useful School for the Blind at Bath, in a room which she hired with her pocket-money, where she and her friend Miss Elwin taught such of the blind poor as they could gather together.
In the tablet which he erected to her memory in the family burial-place of St. Andrew’s, Gulane, her husband described her thus:—“A woman singular in endowments, in suffering, and in faith; to whom to live was Christ, to die was gain.”
[67] Mary Wilhelmina, daughter of F. Skipwith, Esq., B.C.S.
[68] Collinson’s Memoir of Yule.
[69] See Notes from a Diary, 1888–91.
[70] The identification was not limited to Yule, for when travelling in Russia many years ago, the present writer was introduced by an absent-minded Russian savant to his colleagues as Mademoiselle Marco Paulovna!
[71] See Note on Sir George Yule’s career at the end of this Memoir.
[72] Addressed to the Editor, Royal Engineers’ Journal, who did not, however, publish it.
[73] Debate of 27th August, 1889, as reported in The Times of 28th August.
[74] Yule had published a brief but very interesting Memoir of Major Rennell in the R. E. Journal in 1881. He was extremely proud of the circumstance that Rennell’s surviving grand-daughter presented to him a beautiful wax medallion portrait of the great geographer. This wonderfully life-like presentment was bequeathed by Yule to his friend Sir Joseph Hooker, who presented it to the Royal Society.
[75] Knowing his veneration for that noble lady, I had written to tell her of his condition, and to ask her to give him this last pleasure of a few words. The response was such as few but herself could write. This letter was not to be found after my father’s death, and I can only conjecture that it must either have been given away by himself (which is most improbable), or was appropriated by some unauthorised outsider.
[76] So Sir M. E. Grant Duff well calls it.
[77] Academy, 19th March, 1890.
[78] He was much pleased, I remember, by a letter he once received from a kindly Franciscan friar, who wrote: “You may rest assured that the Beato Odorico will not forget all you have done for him.”
[79] F.-M. Lord Napier of Magdala, died 14th January, 1890.
[80] This notice includes the greater part of an article written by my father, and published in the St. James’ Gazette of 18th January, 1886, but I have added other details from personal recollection and other sources.—A. F. Y.
COMPILED BY H. CORDIER AND A. F. YULE[1]
1842 Notes on the Iron of the Kasia Hills. (Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, XI. Part II. July–Dec. 1842, pp. 853–857.)
Reprinted in Proceedings of the Museum of Economic Geology, 1852.
1844 Notes on the Kasia Hills and People. By Lieut. H. Yule. (Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, XII. Part II. July–Dec. 1844, pp. 612–631.)
1846 A Canal Act of the Emperor Akbar, with some notes and remarks on the History of the Western Jumna Canals. By Lieut. Yule. (Jour. Asiatic Society Bengal, XV. 1846, pp. 213–223.)
1850 The African Squadron vindicated. By Lieut. H. Yule. Second Edition. London, J. Ridgway, 1850, 8vo, pp. 41.
Had several editions. Reprinted in the Colonial Magazine of March, 1850.
—— L’Escadre Africaine vengée. Par le lieutenant H. Yule. Traduit du Colonial Magazine de Mars, 1850. (Revue Coloniale, Mai, 1850.)
1851 Fortification for Officers of the Army and Students of Military History, with Illustrations and Notes. By Lieut. H. Yule, Blackwood, MDCCCLI. 8vo, pp. xxii.–210. (There had been a previous edition privately printed.)
—— La Fortification mise à la portée des Officiers de l’Armée et des personnes qui se livrent à l’étude de l’histoire militaire (avec Atlas). Par H. Yule. Traduit de l’Anglais par M. Sapia, Chef de Bataillon d’Artillerie de Marine et M. Masselin, Capitaine du Génie. Paris, J. Corréard, 1858, 8vo, pp. iii.–263, and Atlas.
1851 The Loss of the Birkenhead (Verses). (Edinburgh Courant, Dec. 1851.)
Republished in Henley’s Lyra Heroica, a Book of Verse for Boys. London, D. Nutt, 1890.
1852 Tibet. (Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1852.)
1856 Narrative of Major Phayre’s Mission to the Court of Ava, with Notices of the Country, Government, and People. Compiled by Capt. H. Yule. Printed for submission to the Government of India. Calcutta, J. Thomas, ... 1856, 4to, pp. xxix. + 1 f. n. ch. p. l. er. + pp. 315 + pp. cxiv. + pp. iv. and pp. 70.
The last pp. iv.–70 contain: Notes on the Geological features of the banks of the River Irawadee and on the Country north of the Amarapoora, by Thomas Oldham ... Calcutta, 1856.
—— A Narrative of the Mission sent by the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava in 1855, with Notices of the Country, Government, and People. By Capt. H. Yule. With Numerous Illustrations. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1858, 4to.
1857 On the Geography of Burma and its Tributary States, in illustration of a New Map of those Regions. (Journal, R.G.S., XXVII. 1857, pp. 54–108.)
—— Notes on the Geography of Burma, in illustration of a Map of that Country. (Proceedings R.G.S., vol. i. 1857, pp. 269–273.)
1857 An Account of the Ancient Buddhist Remains at Pagân on the Iráwadi. By Capt. H. Yule. (Jour. Asiatic Society, Bengal, XXVI. 1857, pp. 1–51.)
1861 A few notes on Antiquities near Jubbulpoor. By Lieut.-Col. H. Yule. (Journal Asiatic Society, Bengal, XXX. 1861, pp. 211–215.)
—— Memorandum on the Countries between Thibet, Yunân, and Burmah. By the Very Rev. Thomine D’Mazure (sic), communicated by Lieut.-Col. A. P. Phayre (with notes and a comment by Lieut.-Col. H. Yule). With a Map of the N. E. Frontier, prepared in the Office of the Surveyor-Gen. of India, Calcutta, Aug. 1861. (Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, XXX. 1861, pp. 367–383.)
1862 Notes of a brief Visit to some of the Indian Remains in Java. By Lieut.-Col. H. Yule. (Jour. Asiatic Society, Bengal, XXXI. 1862, pp. 16–31.)
—— Sketches of Java. A Lecture delivered at the Meeting of the Bethune Society, Calcutta, 13th Feb. 1862.
—— Fragments of Unprofessional Papers gathered from an Engineer’s portfolio after twenty-three years of service. Calcutta, 1862.
Ten copies printed for private circulation.
1863 Mirabilia descripta. The Wonders of the East. By Friar Jordanus, of the Order of Preachers and Bishop of Columbum in India the Greater (circa 1330). Translated from the Latin original, as published at Paris in 1839, in the Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires, of the Society of Geography, with the addition of a Commentary, by Col. H. Yule, London.
Printed for the Hakluyt Society, M.DCCC.LXIII, 8vo, p. iv.–xvii.–68.
—— Report on the Passes between Arakan and Burma [written in 1853]. (Papers on Indian Civil Engineering, vol. i. Roorkee.)
1866 Notices of Cathay. (Proceedings, R.G.S., X. 1866, pp. 270–278.)
—— Cathay and the Way Thither, being a Collection of Mediæval Notices of China. Translated and Edited by Col. H. Yule. With a Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape route. London, printed for the Hakluyt Society. M.DCCC.LXVI. 2 vols. 8vo.
1866 The Insurrection at Palermo. (Times, 29th Sep., 1866.)
—— Lake People. (The Athenæum, No. 2042, 15th Dec. 1866, p. 804.)
Letter dated Palermo, 3rd Dec. 1866.
1867 General Index to the third ten Volumes of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Compiled by Col. H. Yule. London, John Murray, M.DCCCLXVII, 8vo, pp. 228.
—— A Week’s Republic at Palermo. (Quarterly Review, Jan. 1867.)
—— On the Cultivation of Sumach (Rhus coriaria), in the Vicinity of Colli, near Palermo. By Prof. Inzenga. Translated by Col. H. Yule. Communicated by Dr. Cleghorn. From the Trans. Bot. Society, vol. ix., 1867–68, ppt. 8vo, p. 15.
Original first published in the Annali di Agricoltura Siciliana, redatti per l’Istituzione del Principe di Castelnuovo. Palermo, 1852.
1868 Marco Polo and his Recent Editors. (Quarterly Review, vol. 125, July and Oct. 1868, pp. 133 and 166.)
1870 An Endeavour to Elucidate Rashiduddin’s Geographical Notices of India. (Journal R. Asiatic Society, N.S. iv. 1870, pp. 340–356.)
—— Some Account of the Senbyú Pagoda at Mengún, near the Burmese Capital, in a Memorandum by Capt. E. H. Sladen, Political Agent at Mandalé; with Remarks on the Subject, by Col. H. Yule. (Ibid. pp. 406–429.)
—— Notes on Analogies of Manners between the Indo-Chinese and the Races of the Malay Archipelago. (Report Fortieth Meeting British Association, Liverpool, Sept. 1870, p. 178.)
1871 The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. Newly translated and edited with notes. By Col. H. Yule. In two volumes. With Maps and other Illustrations. London, John Murray, 1871, 2 vols. 8vo.
—— The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. Newly translated and edited, with Notes, Maps, and other Illustrations. By Col. H. Yule. Second edition. London, John Murray, 1875, 2 vols. 8vo.
1871 Address by Col. H. Yule (Report Forty-First Meeting British Association, Edinburgh, Aug. 1871, pp. 162–174.)
1872 A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus. By Captain John Wood, Indian Navy. New edition, edited by his Son. With an Essay on the Geography of the Valley of the Oxus. By Col. H. Yule. With maps. London, John Murray, 1872. In–8, pp. xc.–280.
—— Papers connected with the Upper Oxus Regions. (Journal, xlii. 1872, pp. 438–481.)
—— Letter [on Yule’s edition of Wood’s Oxus]. (Ocean Highways, Feb. 1874, p. 475.)
Palermo, 9th Jan. 1874.
1873 Letter [about the route of M. Polo through Southern Kerman]. (Ocean Highways, March, 1873, p. 385.)
Palermo, 11th Jan. 1873.
—— On Northern Sumatra and especially Achin. (Ocean Highways, Aug. 1873, pp. 177–183.)
—— Notes on Hwen Thsang’s Account of the Principalities of Tokharistan, in which some previous Geographical Identifications are reconsidered. (Jour. Royal Asiatic Society, N.S. vi. 1873, pp. 92–120 and p. 278.)
1874 Francis Garnier (In Memoriam). (Ocean Highways, pp. 487–491.) March, 1874.
—— Remarks on Mr. Phillips’s Paper [Notices of Southern Mangi]. (Journal, XLIV. 1874, pp. 103–112.)
Palermo, 22nd Feb. 1874.
—— [Sir Frederic Goldsmid’s] “Telegraph and Travel.” (Geographical Magazine, April, 1874, p. 34; Oct. 1874, pp. 300–303.)
—— Geographical Notes on the Basins of the Oxus and the Zarafshán. By the late Alexis Fedchenko. (Geog. Mag., May, 1874, pp. 46–54.)
—— [Mr. Ashton Dilke on the Valley of the Ili.] (Geog. Mag., June, 1874, p. 123.)
Palermo, 16th May, 1874.
—— The Atlas Sinensis and other Sinensiana. (Geog. Mag., 1st July, 1847, pp. 147–148.)
—— Letter [on Belasaghun]. (Geog. Mag., 1st July, 1874, p. 167; Ibid. 1st Sept. 1874, p. 254.)
Palermo, 17th June, 1874; 8th Aug. 1874.
1874 Bala Sagun and Karakorum. By Eugene Schuyler. With note by Col. Yule. (Geog. Mag., 1st Dec. 1874, p. 389.)
—— M. Khanikoff’s Identifications of Names in Clavijo. (Ibid. pp. 389–390.)
1875 Notes [to the translation by Eugene Schuyler of Palladius’s version of The Journey of the Chinese Traveller, Chang Fe-hui]. (Geog. Mag., 1st Jan. 1875, pp. 7–11.)
—— Some Unscientific Notes on the History of Plants. (Geog. Mag., 1st Feb. 1875, pp. 49–51.)
—— Trade Routes to Western China. (Geog. Mag., April, 1875, pp. 97–101.)
—— Garden of Transmigrated Souls [Friar Odoric]. (Geog. Mag., 1st May, 1875, pp. 137–138.)
—— A Glance at the Results of the Expedition to Hissar. By Herr P. Lerch. (Geog. Mag., 1st Nov. 1875, pp. 334–339.)
—— Kathay or Cathay. (Johnson’s American Cyclopædia.)
—— Achín. (Encycl. Brit. 9th edition, 1875, I. pp. 95–97.)
—— Afghânistân. (Ibid. pp. 227–241.)
—— Andaman Islands. (Ibid. II. 1875, pp. 11–13.)
—— India [Ancient]. (Map No. 31, 1874, in An Atlas of Ancient Geography, edited by William Smith and George Grove. London, John Murray, 1875.)
1876 Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet, being a Narrative of Three Years’ Travel in Eastern High Asia. By Lieut.-Col. N. Prejevalsky, of the Russian Staff Corps; Mem. of the Imp. Russ. Geog. Soc. Translated by E. Delmar Morgan, F.R.G.S. With Introduction and Notes by Col. H. Yule. With Maps and Illustrations. London, Sampson Low, 1876, 8vo.
—— Tibet ... Edited by C. R. Markham. Notice of. (Times, 1876, ——?)
—— Eastern Persia. Letter. (The Athenæum, No. 2559, 11th Nov. 1876.)
—— Review of H. Howorth’s History of the Mongols, Part I. (The Athenæum, No. 2560, 18th Nov. 1876, pp. 654–656.) Correspondence. (Ibid. No. 2561, 25th Nov. 1876.)
—— Review of T. E. Gordon’s Roof of the World. (The Academy, 15th July, 1876, pp. 49–50.)
1876 Cambodia. (Encycl. Brit. IV. 1876, pp. 723–726.)
1877 Champa. (Geog. Mag., 1st March, 1877, pp. 66–67.)
Article written for the Encycl. Brit. 9th edition, but omitted for reasons which the writer did not clearly understand.
—— Quid, si Mundus evolvatur? (Spectator, 24th March, 1877.)
Written in 1875.—Signed Marcus Paulus Venetus.
—— On Louis de Backer’s L’Extrême-Orient au Moyen-Age. (The Athenæum, No. 2598, 11th Aug. 1877, pp. 174–175.)
—— On P. Dabry de Thiersant’s Catholicisme en Chine. (The Athenæum, No. 2599, 18th Aug. 1877, pp. 209–210.)
—— Review of Thomas de Quincey, His Life and Writings. By H. A. Page. (Times, 27th Aug. 1877.)
—— Companions of Faust. Letter on the Claims of P. Castaldi. (Times, Sept. 1877.)
1878 The late Col. T. G. Montgomerie, R.E. (Bengal). (R. E. Journal, April, 1878.) 8vo, pp. 8.
—— Mr. Henry M. Stanley and the Royal Geographical Society; being the Record of a Protest. By Col. H. Yule and H. M. Hyndman B.A., F.R.G.S. London: Bickers and Son, 1878, 8vo, pp. 48.
—— Review of Burma, Past and Present; with Personal Reminiscences of the Country. By Lieut.-Gen. Albert Fytche. (The Athenæum, No. 2634, 20th April, 1878, pp. 499–500.)
—— Kayal. (The Athenæum, No. 2634, 20th April, 1878, p. 515.)
Letter dated April, 1878.
—— Missions in Southern India. (Letter to Pall Mall Gazette, 20th June, 1878.)
—— Mr. Stanley and his Letters of 1875. (Letter to Pall Mall Gazette, 30th Jan. 1878.)
—— Review of Richthofen’s China, Bd. I. (The Academy, 13th April, 1878, pp. 315–316.)
—— [A foreshadowing of the Phonograph.] (The Athenæum, No. 2636, 4th May, 1878.)
1879 A Memorial of the Life and Services of Maj.-Gen. W. W. H. Greathed, C.B., Royal Engineers (Bengal), (1826–1878). Compiled by a Friend and Brother Officer. London, printed for private circulation, 1879, 8vo, pp. 57.
—— Review of Gaur: its Ruins and Inscriptions. By John Henry Ravenshaw. (The Athenæum, No. 2672, 11th Jan. 1879, pp. 42–44.)
—— Wellington College. (Letter to Pall Mall Gazette, 14th April, 1879.)
—— Dr. Holub’s Travels. (The Athenæum, No. 2710, 4th Oct. 1879, pp. 436–437.)
—— Letter to Comm. Berchet, dated 2nd Dec. 1878. (Archivio Veneto XVII. 1879, pp. 360–362.)
Regarding some documents discovered by the Ab. Cav. V. Zanetti.
—— Gaur. (Encyclop. Brit. X. 1879, pp. 112–116.)
—— Ghazni. (Ibid. pp. 559–562.)
—— Gilgit. (Ibid. pp. 596–599.)
—— Singular Coincidences. (The Athenæum, No. 2719, 6th Dec. 1879.)
1880 [Brief Obituary Notice of] General W. C. Macleod. (Pall Mall Gazette, 10th April, 1880.)
—— [Obituary Notice of] Gen. W. C. Macleod. (Proc. R. Geog. Soc., June, 1880.)
—— An Ode in Brown Pig. Suggested by reading Mr. Lang’s Ballades in Blue China. [Signed Marcus Paulus Venetus.] (St. James’ Gazette, 17th July, 1880.)