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...Institute Museum, taxidermist, who will mount groups of the island wild life; W. Kenneth Cuyler and Allen L. Moses, collectors, who will prepare the skins. Mr. Simmons himself will devote much time to the many rare and tropical birds - the sheerwater, gannet, booby, king and emperor penguins, jackass, manofwar, albatross, etc. Experienced navigators and sailors, all college men with scientific training, make up the crew. There is an engineer for topo graphical work, an electrician for ra dio, a photographer, a motion picture...
...tiny monoplane weighs but 400 pounds without the pilot. Its wing, thick at the body and tapering to knife thickness at the outer edges, its short, slender fuselage, are the last word in lightness and aerodynamic efficiency. The machine has the appearance of a beautiful silver albatross...
Alexander Agassiz directed three expeditions of the U. S. S. "Blake" in the Atlantic and three of the U. S. S. "Albatross" in the Pacific. At his personal expense he also fitted out no less than four vessels for research work in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It would be difficult to overestimate the value of the zoological and other collections which he amassed during these explorations. This researches take us a long way toward the solution of exceedingly interesting and important oceanic problems, and his work on coral-reefs, carried on almost entirely at his own expense, related...
Throughout his active scientific life, he was a constant student of the recent Echini and examined and described a large part of the collections of the "Challenger," "Blake," and "Albatross" expeditions. He met the "Challenger" when it reached Halifax in May, 1873; and it was here that the scientists of that expedition prophesied that he would have a brilliant future. In the winter of that same year he passed through a terrible ordeal in the death of both his father and wife. Yet, though a changed man, he clung to his desire for new knowledge and, in accordance with...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "Review of the Report by A. Agassiz on the Expedition of the 'Albatross' to the East Pacific," Mr. H. B. Bigelow. Short Papers, Room 1, fifth floor...