Military or Naval
WILSON
(Sir Charles William, 1836-1905, Major General, Geographer and Archaeologist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Woods,
saying that Friday would be most convenient for your visit to Southampton. There is a good train from Waterloo...I should be glad to have a copy of the instructions for accounting Officers and a memo of the books in which I understand they have to keep..., 2 sides 8vo., Ordnance Survey Office headed paper, Southampton, 19th March
Item Date: 1890
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Wilson was appointed director of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland and was director-general from 1886 to 1894. He was the editor of Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc. in 1895. In the book, he gave encyclopaedic information about the societies in Anatolia, Kurdistan, Transcaucasia, Syria, Mesopotamia and Iran and many settlements in this geography.red
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