General Georges Perrier
1946; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 157; Issue: 3997 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/157759a0
ISSN1476-4687
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Geography and Cartography
ResumoGENERAL GEORGES PERRIER, veteran of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, died on February 16, at the age of seventy-four ; and so ended a brilliant century of geodesy, for General Perrier had followed in the footsteps of an equally distinguished father. General Francois Perrier (1833-88) was a contemporary and friend of Colonel Alexander Ross Clarke. It was he who, with the Spanish General Ibanez, carried the meridional arc which starts in the Shetland Islands across the Mediterranean to end in the heart of Africa. It was he also who, in 1870, organised the Service Géographique de l'armée as we knew it in the two World Wars, and who became the first director-general.
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