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Markham (SIR CLEMENTS ROB- ERT)

SIR CLEMENTS ROB- ERT, an English geographer; born in Stillingfleet, England, July 20, 1830. He accompanied an Arctic expedition in 1851; visited Peru in 1852-1854; visited Peru and India as commissioner to introduce cinchona plants into the latter country in 1860; was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society in 1863-1868; accompanied the Abyssinian expedition in 1867- 1868. He wrote: "Travels in Peru and India" (1862); "History of the Abyssinian Expedition" (1869); "History of Peru" (1892); "Richard III" (1906); "The Incas of Peru" (1910). He edited a number of reprints of works on South America for the Hakluyt Society, and, for several years, the "Geographical Magazine." He was president of the Royal Geographical Society and of the International Geographical Congress (1894-1899), and was created a K. C. B. in 1896. He died in 1916.

MARK TWAIN. See CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE.