Who's Who in the Far East/CHEVALIER, Father Stanislas

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3629732Who's Who in the Far East — CHEVALIER, Father Stanislas

CHEVALIER, Father Stanislas (SICAWEI), Director of Astronomical Observatory, Sicawei, Shanghai; b. Oct. 22, 1852, in Brittany, France. Director of meteorological observatory, Sicawei, 1890-96; surveyed Upper Yangtsze valley, 1997-98; Director of astroncmical observatory, 1901. Publicaticns: "Etude sur les crages dars le Kiang-nan en 1889," "Etude sur 1'etablissement de la monsson d'ete et de la mcusson d'hiver sur la c6te de Chine," "Typhoons de 1892,"" La navigation a vapeur sur le hint Yangtze," "Le Haut Yangtze, de Itchang fou a Singchan hein en 1897-98," and numerous ai tides in annual reports of Shanghai Meteorological Society; also numerous maps. Decorations: Laureat de 1'Academie ties Sciences et de la Societe de Geographic de Paris. Address: Astronomical Observatory, Sicawei, Shanghai.