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Anima H. NAsox, Professor of English, New York University.
Henry Haversham English topographer and geologist: b. Teign mouth, 6 July 1834. He is the son of R. A. C. Godwin-Austen, the distinguished geologist; was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst ; joined the 24th Regiment of Foot in 1851; in 1852 went with his regiment to India and served with distinction in the Second Bur mese War and in the Punjab. He then became topographical assistant in the Trigonometrical Survey of India in 1857 and joined the Kash mir Survey party. While connected with this he surveyed a large part of Kashmir and Bal tistan and discovered the enormous glaciers at the head of the Shigar River and Hunza Nagar frontier, including the important Baltoro gla cier. In 1862 he surveyed the Rupshu and Zaskar districts in Ladakh during July and August of that year, making 13 ascents of mountain peaks, the highest of which was Mata, 20,607 feet. He then surveyed the Pang Kong Lake district nearly to Rudok in Chinese territory, but was stopped in 1863 by the Lhas san governor; during the winter of 1862-63 was on special duty with the last mission to Bhutan, and mapped out the country between Darjeeling and Bunakha. In 1874 he served
with the Bhutan Field Force, and was present at the capture of Dalmgkote and Chamurchi forts; took part in the expedition against the Dafia tribe in the eastern Himalayas; and in 1877 was retired from the army with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. From 1897-99 he was president of the Malacological Society, and in 1908 president of the Conchological Society. He was awarded the founder's medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1910. Mount Godwin-Austen has been named in his honor. Besides numerous scientific papers on geology and physical features he has written 'On the Land and Freshwater Mollusca of India' (1882 99), in parts, and the volume on molluscs in 'The Fame of British India.' a mountain peak said to be exceeded in height only by Mount Everest, in the Mustagh range of the Himalayan system. Its height is estimated at 28,265 feet. Distinguished in the records of the great trigonometrical survey only by the sign K2, it was named in 1888 after H. H. Godwin-Austen (q.v.) of the Trigonometrical Survey of India.