a naval officer, drowned while Robert was a youth.
apprentice to a London chemist; study in London for the medical profession, but ill-health caused him to return to settle in Cornwall.
United Kingdom
Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography, 1841; Synopsis of the contents of the great exhibition of 1851 ; A manual of photography, 1853; coll. & ed. of: Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom,[
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society at Falmouth (secr. & leading fig.); Royal Statistical Society (fellow 1855)
Sir John Herschel & photographic research ;
pioneer of scientific & technical photography ; research in photochemistry, furthermore statistical, mineralogical & other studies
Photogr.&mss. coll. of R.H. at Natural History Museum: www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/collections-management/collections-navigator//index
DNB; Ann Thomas (ed.) Beauty of Another Order, Ottawa 1997: 50-53; K.Hentschel: Mapping the Spectrum, Oxford 2002; ...
British scientific author & pioneer photographer.
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