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See also:WATERTON, See also:CHARLES (1782-1865) , See also:English naturalist and traveller, was See also:born at See also:Walton See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, near See also:Pontefract, See also:Yorkshire, on the 3rd of See also:June 1782. After being educated at the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:college of Storiyhurst, and travelling a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:Spain, he went to See also:Demerara to See also:manage some estates belonging to his See also:family. He continued in this occupation for about eight years, when he began those wanderings upon the results of which his fame as a naturalist principally rests. In his first See also:journey, which began in 1812, and the See also:principal See also:object of which was to collect the See also:poison known as curare, he travelled through See also:British See also:Guiana by the Demerara and See also:Essequibo See also:rivers to the frontiers of See also:Brazil, making many natural See also:history collections and observations by the way. After spending some time in See also:England he returned to See also:South See also:America in 1816, going by See also:Pernambuco and See also:Cayenne to British Guiana, where again he devoted his time to the most varied observations in natural history.. For the third time, in 182o, he sailed from England for Demerara, and again he spent his time in similar pursuits. Another sojourn in England of about three years' was followed by a visit to the See also:United States in 1824; and, having touched at several of the See also:West See also:India islands, he again went on to Demerara, returning to England at the end of the See also:year. In 1828 he published the results of his four journeys, under the See also:title of Wanderings in South America —consisting largely of a collection of observations on the
3 The question of revising the limits fixed for Territorial See also:Waters in the See also:Convention of 1882 (see above) was the subject of an animated discussion at the See also:conference at See also:Hull of the See also:National See also:Sea See also:Fisheries See also:Protection Association in 1906, when a See also:resolution was adopted in favour of maintaining the See also:present 3-See also:miles limit on grounds of expediency, which deserve serious See also:consideration.
See also:appearance, See also:character and habits of many of the animals to be found in British Guiana. Waterton was a keen and accurate observer, and his descriptions are of a graphic and humorous character, rarely to be found in See also:works on natural history. He married in 1829, and from that time lived mostly at Walton Hall, devoting himself to the improvement of his See also:estate, to See also:country pursuits, and to natural history observations. . He also published three See also:series of Essays in Natural History (1838, 1844, 1857). He died at Walton Hall on the 27th of May 1865, from the result of an See also:accident. His only son, See also:Edmund Waterton (183o-1887), was an See also:antiquary, who paid See also:special See also:attention to rings; some of those he collected are in the See also:Victoria and See also:Albert Museum.
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