Word: africa
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Living Room of the Union. As an introduction to his lecture, Mr. Mansfield gave a detailed account of the history of the Congo Free State. In 1876 King Leopold caused the formation of the International African Association which immediately sent an expedition to the east coast of Africa...
Addresses by the most able missionary speakers will be among the leading features of the convention. In these the different branches of missionary endeavor, educational, medical, and ministerial, will be set forth as well as the advantages of the different fields, Africa, China, Japan, and Turkey...
...Today," will come tomorrow. The subjects of the other lectures will be: "Great Britain's Predecessors and Rivals in Empire Building," "The Making of the British Empire of Today and the Conquest of India," "The First of the Greater Britains Beyond the Seas, Canada," "Australasia and Its Island Continents," "Africa, the Laggard Continent," "The Power of the Empire...
Foreign countries are represented as follows: Canada, 35; China, 25; Great Britain and Ireland, 13; Germany, 12; Japan, 7; France, 6; India, 6; Cuba, 5; Russia, 5; Italy, 3; Argentine Republic, 2; British West Indies, 2; Bulgaria, 2; Egypt, 2; Mexico, 2; New Zealand, 2; South Africa, 2; Australia, 1; Brazil, 1; Colombia, 1; Holland, 1; Korea, 1; Peru, 1; Roumania, 1; Siam, 1; Switzerland, 1; Turkish Empire...
...Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has recently received two interesting and valuable accessions. One, by the gift of Dr. Alexander Agassiz '55, director of the University Museum, consists of a valuable collection of war implements, household utensils and trinkets, collected by Dr. Agassiz during his visit to Africa last winter. The collection comprises more than 200 specimens, obtained from the Bantu, Nandi, Lumbwa and Masai tribes of negroes, in the vicinity of Lake Victoria, British Uganda Protectorate, and British East Africa. These tribes are from three separate African stocks and speak three different languages. There are also some specimens...