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CHAPTER I
(1) BANGALORE
The capital of Maisor-State, East India. Today the city is called as the Silicon Valley of India and many internationally leading high-tech industries push into the city.
(2) MOODY, RICHARD CLEMENT (1813-1877)
Major-General of Royal Engineers. Graduated from Woolwich Military Academy in 1829. Proficient in drafting and architecture.
Promoted to Colonel in 1858 and appointed to be the Vice Governor and the chief of the Land and Engineering Works in the new Colony of British Columbia.
Until he returned home as the Regimental Full Colonel, he devoted himself to the construction of the New Colony, drawing the arterial roads, designing the plan to construct the capital city of New Westminster in the once deepest forest.
To admire his achievements, the terminal station of the Canadian Pacific Railway was named as PORT MOODY after his name.
(3) LYTTON EDWARD GEORGE (1803-1873)
Statesman and novelist (The author of the "Last Days of Pompeii (1834)."
In 1858 he was a Colonial Secretary of England.
(4) Bella Coola
The village of Bella Coola lies at the head of the deeply entrenched fjord of North Bentinck Arm situated at the north-west of British Columbia.
From Victoria it is about 440 miles.
(5) The Report of a Journey of Survey from Victoria to Fort Alexander (Alexandria) via North Bentinck Arm
This report was furnished to Col. Moody on November 24, 1862.
Full text of the report was printed in 1863 by the Royal Engineer Press, New Westminster B.C.
(6) Palmer's Report (4 letters form) to Col. Moody dated
(1) 1862-7-16
(2) 8-13
(3) 8-17
(4) 8-27
(7) The Report on Harrison and Lillouette Road
Lieutenant Palmer furnished this report to Colonel Moody on May 1859. The full text was introduced in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society No. 31 (1861).
(8) JAMES, SIR HENRY (1803-1877)
Graduated from Woolwich Royal Military Academy.
Served in The Ordnance Survey from 1827 to 1875. He became the Director General in 1854 and died in June 14, 1877 at the rank of Lieutenant General. His younger sister Jane was the mother of Henry Spencer Palmer, but she died just one month after Palmer was born. In the field of surveying by triangulation as well as the photozincography his name is conspicuous.
(9) WILSON, SIR CHARLES WILLIAM (1836-1905)
Graduated from Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1855 as the officer of Royal Engineers, he worked various parts in England as well as its colonies.
He surveyed Jerusalem, Palestine and Sinai.
In 1878 he was appointed to the Director General of Military Education at the War Office, and became the Director General of Ordnance Survey in 1886 to 1893.
He wrote many books on surveying.
(10) PALMER, EDWARD HENRY (1840-1882)
Prominent philologist (linguist). Orientalist.
From the boyhood, well versed in Romany, Italian, French and other languages. Surveyed the Peninsula of Sinai, devoted to the study of Bedouin and while working in the Cambridge University as the professor of Arabic language, he travelled
to Arabia and was involved in the Arabian War and killed in 1882.
(11)
The title of the series is "Ancient History from the Monuments" which consists of “Assyria, Sinai, Babylonia, Greek Colonies and islands of Asia Minor, Egypt and Persia.
(12) AIRY, SIR GEORGE BIDDELL (1801-1892)
Astronomer Royal for 46 years from 1835 until 1881.
Graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with excellent results in 1823 and became assistant mathematical tutor next year.
His distinguished services on various astronomical phenomena being conspicuous, he was recommended to become the Astronomer Royal of Greenwich Observatory in 1835.
He devoted himself to the preparations and observations of the Transit of Venus in 1874.
(13) ARAI, IKUNOSUKE (1835-1909)
Ex-retainer of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Technical officer on surveying and astronomy under Meiji Government.
Born in Yedo (Tokyo), studied at the Shoheiko School as well as Nagasaki Naval School.
In 1868, though he resisted against the Imperial Army with Enomoto Takeaki at Hokkaido, he surrendered himself and after the release, he was sent to Hokkaido for its development.
In 1879, he became the chief of Surveying Bureau of the Home Ministry and later, appointed to the first chief astronomer in the central Observatory.
(14) INOUYE, KAORU (1836-1915)
Statesman from Choshu Clan. In 1863 went to England with Ito Hirobumi and others. After the Restoration in 1869, occupied various important positions in the Government as the State Councillor for industrial and technological Board, and foreign affairs.
In 1885, became the first Minister for Foreign Affairs and struggled hard to materialize the revision of the treaties, but resigned due to the strong opposition from the nation.
Later, occupied successive positions in the ministerial posts of Agriculture and Commerce, Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs.
He also secured the advisory position in the Mitsui Zaibatsu (Financial clique) and became like the old man in the politiacl and financial world in Japan.
(15) NATURE
A world famous authentic weekly specialized in Science, wrote on Palmer on July 26, 1882 on his "Recent Japanese Progress," and further wrote another article titled "H.S. Palmer's centennial anniversary" on April 30 1938.
CHAPTER II
(16) PARKES, SIR HENRY SMITH (1828-1885)
British Diplomatist. Lost his parent when very young, and at the age of 13, went to Macao to depend upon his two elder sisters for support who received assistance of a Christian missionary, Gitlav.
In 1846, he started to work in the British Consulate at Canton, and in various districts in China and until March 1865, he became conversant with affairs in China. On June 1865, he came to Japan as the British Minister in Tokyo to succeed Alcock.
Before the Restoration in 1869, he abandoned to support the Tokugawa Shogunate Government and supported Satsuma and Choshu Clans and assisted their anti-Shogunate movement.
He brought up young Consulate members such as Mitford, Satow and Siebold and himself became quite conversant with the affairs of Japan and contributed for the repletion of the new Japanese Government, but, as far as the revision of the treaties are concerned, he is well known as he did not concede a bit for the protection of the interests of the English residents in Japan.
After he served in Japan for 18 years, he was transferred to a higher position to China as the Envoy Extraordinary and Ambassador Plenipotentiaries.
He died in Peking in 1885.
(17) OKI, MORIKATA (1840-1912)
In 1871, he participated in the Iwakura Mission (Embassy to U.S.A and Europe), and stayed there for 8 years.
After served in the departments of Home and Foreign Affairs, he became the Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture.
He formed the plan to construct waterworks in Yokohama and finally completed the first Modern Waterworks in Japan under the design and superintendence of Palmer in 1887.
He is also well known as the tough negotiator for the foreign residents in Yokohama on the problem pertaining to the revision of the treaties.
Later, he was nominated to the Governors of Shiga and Nagasaki Prefectures and became the member of Peers and was created a Baron.
(18) MITA, ZENTARO (1855-1929)
Civil Engineer, graduated from Civil Engineering Department of Tokyo Imperial University in 1878.
In 1879, he was employed as the civil engineer attached to the Kanagawa Prefecture Office.
Since 1882, he worked hard to materialize the construction of the waterworks and devoted himself for it under the guidance of Henry Spencer Palmer as the leader among the Japanese engineers.
In 1887, he became the chief engineer of Yokohama Waterworks Office.
Later he was engaged in the construction of Yokohama Harbourworks under the guidance of Palmer.
CHAPTER III
(19) REED, SIR EDWARD J.
British superintendent of shipbuilding. Member of British Parliament.
Came to Japan in January 1879. Engaged in the design of several warships which Japanese Government ordered.
CHAPTER V
(20) KOJIMA, KOREKATA (1837-1908)
The President of the Supreme Court at the time when the
Russian Crown Prince was attacked by a Japanese Policeman at
Otsu, near Kyoto in 1891.
(21) SHIBUSAWA, EIICHI (1840-1931)
A prominent Japanese businessman.
The founder of the system of Stock Company in Japan.
Established more than 500 stock companies under his initiatives.
After retirement from the business world, in 1916, he devoted himself to various public work activities, viz, in the field of education, community and culture.
Postscript
Brief History of H.S. Palmer
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