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Citation Information
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AGF, 52-55. GEOGRAPHICAL LABOURS—PURSUI'T'S IN SICILY 1,1"111
pared Central Asia before Yule to Central Africa before •
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Yule had wrought from sheer love of the work and without ' , •
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expectation of public recognition, and it was therefore a great. _ å4.
surprise as well as gratification to him, to find that the demand ►••
for his Marco Polo was such as to justify the appearance of a ` '. +
second edition only a few years after the first. The preparation _~'♦ . v.'.• y`
of this enlarged edition, with much other miscellaneous work '•
(see subjoined bibliography), and the superintendence of the
building of the church already named, kept him fully occupied
for the next three years.
Amongst the parerga and miscellaneous occupations of Yule's
leisure hours in the period 1869-74, may be mentioned an inter-
esting correspondence with Professor W. W. Skeat on the subject
of William of Palerne and Sicilian examples of the Werwolf ;
the skilful analysis and exposure of Klaproth's false geography ; 64
the purchase and despatch of Sicilian seeds and young trees
for use in the Punjab, at the request of the Indian Forestry
Department ; translations (prepared for friends) of tracts on the
cultivation of Sumach and the collection of Manna as practised
in Sicily ; also a number of small services rendered to the
South Kensington Museum, at the request of the late Sir t.
S Henry Cole. These latter included obtaining Italian and
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Sicilian bibliographic contributions to the Science and Art ; •
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Department's Catalogue of Books on Art, selecting architectural `'
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subjects to be photographed ; negotiating the purchase of the .
original drawings illustrative of Padre B. Gravina's great work
r ale ; and superintending on the Cathedral of Mon the execution e p ~
of a copy in mosaic of the large mosaic picture (in the Norman
Palatine Chapel, Palermo,) of the Entry of our Lord into
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Jerusalem.
In the spring of 1875, just after the publication of the second
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wissenschaftliche Gruncilichkeit mit anmuthender Form verbindet, bemerkbar." ( Verhandlunç esz der Gesellschaft fib- Erdhunde zu Berlin, Band x VI I. No. 2. )
64 This subject is too lengthy for more than cursory allusion here, but the patient
‚Ito analytic skill and keen venatic instinct with which Yule not only proved the forgery
Il of the alleged Travels of Geor,; Ludwig von ---- (that had been already established 4
gat by Lord Strangford, whose last effort it was, and Sir Henry Rawlinson), but step by s).'
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step traced it home to the arch-culprit Klaproth, was nothing less than masterly. S
cm, 65 This is probably the origin of the odd misstatement as to Yule occupying himself ,,, art
at Palermo with photography, made in the delightful Reminiscences of the late
14 Colonel Balcarres Ramsay. Yule never attempted photography after 1852.
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