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He did considerable surveying work in the British Columbia interior from 1858 to 1863 .

Palmer was well known not only as a soldier but also as a scientist. He became ill and died while engaged in the construction of Yokohama harbour in Japan . He was for many years the ''Times'' correspondent in Japan, and buried in the foreign cemetery at Aoyama, Tokyo .


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  • 'Henry Spencer Palmer, 1838-93', by Jiro Higuchi, Chapter 18, ''Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits'', Volume IV, edited by Hugh Cortazzi , Japan Library, 2002 ISBN 190335014X