Henry Yule, an English author, born about 1810. He joined the army in India, became colonel of the royal engineers, Bengal, and now lives in London. His works include "Fortification " (1851); " Narrative of the Mission sent by the Governor General of India to the Court of Ava," to which he Bad been attached (4to, 1858); " Cathay, and the Way thither," a collection of mediaeval notices of China, translated and edited with an essay (Hakluyt society, 2 vols., London, 1866); "The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East," newly translated (2 vols., London, 1871; 2d ed., revised, enlarged, and illustrated, 1875); " Papers connected with the Upper Oxus Regions " (" Journal of the Royal Geographical Society," 1872); annotations included in E. D. Morgan's translation of Preyevalski's " Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Thibet " (2 vols., 1876); and an introductory essay on central Asia appended to Wood's " Journey to the Oxus" (1876).