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   De la Rue
   Warren
   W. d. l. R. ; W. Delarue ;
   Georgiana, the third daughter of Thomas Bowles of Guernsey
   four sons and one daughter
   1815 in Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK
   1889
   London
   Thomas de la Rue, founder of the large firm of stationers in London ;
   mother Jane De la Rue, née Warren;
   in London & in Paris, then entered his father's business & devoted leisure hours to chemical & electrical researches; in astronomy by James Nasmyth
   United Kingdom
   On the total solar eclipse of July 18th, 1860, observed at Rivabellosa
   Royal Astronomical Society (member & publ. in Monthly Notices) ; Brit. Ass. f. Adv.of Science (plen. lecture 1859) ; Chemical Society; Royal Society ;
   researcher Balfour Stewart & Mr B. Loewy on solar physics ; chemist Dr. Hugo Muller / Müller ; N. Maskelyne: swanseamuseum.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/from-the-collection-no-1/ ; ->Paul Pretsch; Edwin Hill ; photogr. -> Henry Reynolds & portrait engr. ->Daniel J. Pound
   astronomical photography & stereography; wet collodion; experim. photomechanical prints such as heliotypography, photoheliography & photogalvanography
   www.londonstereo.com/modern_stereos_moons.html ; http://astro-canada.ca/_en/photo690.php?a2300_1865 ;
   see var. links at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_De_la_Rue
   AKL ; Journ. Chem. Soc. 57: 441 ; Nature 40: 26 ; The Times (22 April 1889) ; Royal Soc., Catalogue of Scientific Papers ; K. Hentschel: Mapping the Spectrum (Oxford 2002: 161f.) ; Thomas 1997: 199 & 205f. ; Corey Keller: Brought to Light-Photography & the Invisible 1840-1900 (2009) ; R. Krauss: Hist. Photography 2: 302 ; Chitra Ramalingam: Natural history in the dark-seriality and the electric discharge in Victorian physics, History of Science 48,3 (2010): 371-398, esp. pp. 385ff & note 57.
   Known as British astronomer & chemist, most famous for pioneering work in astronomical photography, stereoscopy & photomechanical printing techniques; espedition to Spain f. solar eclipse 1860.
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