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Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen

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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Henry Haversham
| name = Godwin-Austen
| honorific_prefix = Major
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Godwin-Austen,_Henry_Haversham.jpg
| birth_date = 1834
| death_date = 1923
| address = Chilworth Manor, Guildford<br />and 17 Bessborough-gardens, SW [1879]<br />Shalford House, near Guildford; and Junior United Service Club [1881]<br />Nore, Bramley, Guildford; and Junior United Service Club, Charles Street, S.W. [1885]
| occupation = geologist<br />naturalist<br />topographer<br />surveyor
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1875.12.28
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = Ordinary Fellow
| left = 1886.10.26 resigned
| clubs = Junior United Service Club
| societies = Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom<br />Royal Society<br />Zoological Society<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />British Ornithologists' Union<br />Asiatic Society of Bengal
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1879 Member<br />AI Council 1880 Member<br />AI Council 1881 Member<br />AI Council 1882 Member<br />AI Council 1883 Member<br />AI Council 1884 Vice President<br />AI Council 1885 Vice President<br />AI Council 1886 Vice President<br />AI Council 1887 Member<br />AI Council 1888 Member<br />
=== House Notes ===
proposed 1875.12.14<br />Deputy Superintendent Topographical Survey of India<br />Lieut. Col. in 1885 list
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen FRS FZS FRGS MBOU (6 July 1834 – 2 December 1923), known until 1854 as Henry Haversham Austen, was an English topographer, geologist, naturalist and surveyor.<br /><br />renowned British surveyor, mountaineer and supposedly one of the first British converts into Buddhism, Henry Harversham Godwin-Austen. An energetic officer in service of the Trigonometrical Survey of India, Godwin-Austen became widely known as the explorer and surveyor of the Karakorams, and as the first person to ascertain the position and height of K2 which is also known and Mount Godwin-Austen. <br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Notes on the Pangong Lake District of Ladakh (1864) <br />Birds of Assam (1870–1878) <br />Land and freshwater mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burma, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malaya Peninsula, Ceylon and other islands of the Indian Ocean; Supplementary to Masers Theobald and Hanley's Conchologica Indica (Taylor and Francis, London, VI+257+ 442+65 pp., 165 pls, published in parts, 1882–1920: <br /><br />“Description of a Mystic Play as performed in Ladak, Zascar &c.” in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.<br />
=== House Publications ===
On the Stone Monuments of the Khasi Hill Tribes, and on Some of the Peculiar Rites and Customs of the People 1872
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