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' Plate 10 from the paper 'On the effects of compression and dilatation in altering the polarising structure of doubly refracting crystals'

Half length seated portrait of Huddart

Enrico Caruso

5th July 1987

Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur mb-height 6936 ' Plate 10 from theFerdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur, 1875. De Lesseps (1805 1894) built the Suez Canal to enable shipping to pass between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea rather than having to sail around the Cape of Good hope, completing the project in 1869. In 1880 he then went on to make the first attempt at building a canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama. A combination of the difficult terrain, a