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THE death occurred in January this year, at seventy-five years of age, of DR. JULES HARMAND, who was well known for his extensive explorations in French Indo-China. In 1873 Dr. Harmand took part in the investigations of the ruins of Angkor, in Cambodia. His explorations in subsequent years embraced the basin of the Tonle Sap and the lake of that name, as well as the country between there and Bassac, on the Mekong. In 1877 Dr. Harmand explored the Boloveu plateau in Laos, and succeeded in crossing- the mountainous country to Hué, in Annam. These explorations shed much light on the interior of Indo-China, and gained for Dr. Harmand in 1878 the gold medal of the Paris Geographical Society. Later he entered the diplomatic service and was for many years French ambassador at Tokio. Dr. Harmand was the author of “Domination et Colonisation,” published in 1910, and he prepared a French edition of Sir John Strachey's “India” in 1892.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 107, 341 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107341a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107341a0