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VAN CARNBEE, PIETER, See also:BARON (1816–1856) , Dutch geographer, was See also:born at the See also:Hague on the loth of May 1816. He traced his descent from an old Scottish See also:family, originally, it is said, of Hungarian extraction. Destined for the See also:navy, in which his grandfather Pieter Melvill van Carnbee (1743–1810) had been See also:admiral, he imbibed a See also:taste for See also:hydrography and cartography as a student in the See also:college of See also:Medemblik, and he showed his capacity as a surveyor on his first voyage to the Dutch Indies (1835). In 1839 he was again in the See also:East, and was attached to the hydrographical See also:bureau at See also:Batavia. With the assistance of documents collected by the old East See also:India See also:Company, he completed a See also:map of See also:Java in five sheets, accompanied by sailing directions (See also:Amsterdam, 1842). He remained in the East till 1845 See also:collecting materials for a See also:chart of the See also:waters between See also:Sumatra and See also:Borneo (two sheets, 1845 and 1846). On his return to See also:Holland he was attached to the See also:naval See also:department with the See also:charge of studying the See also:history of the hydrography of the Dutch East Indies. He also undertook, in connexion with P. F. von See also:Siebold, the publication of the Moniteur See also:des hides, a valuable See also:series of scientific papers, mainly from his own See also:pen, on the See also:foreign possessions of Holland, which was continued for three years. In 185o Melvill returned to India as See also:lieutenant of the first class and See also:adjutant to See also:Vice-Admiral van den See also:Bosch; and after the premature See also:death of this See also:commander he was again appointed keeper of the charts at Batavia. In 1853 he obtained exemption from active naval service that he might devote himself to a See also:general See also:atlas of the Dutch Indies. But in 1856 he See also:fell a victim to See also:climate, dying at Batavia on the 24tke., of See also:October.

In spite of delays in See also:

engraving, twenty-five sheets of the atlas were already finished, but it was not- till 1862 that the whole See also:plan, embracing sixty sheets, was completed by Lieut.-See also:Colonel W. F. Versteeg. In 1843 Melvill received the decoration of the See also:Netherlands See also:Lion, in 1849 that of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour.

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