Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...curator of the Peabody Museum, has recently received letters from Dr. W. C. Farabee '00, head of the Peabody Museum expedition in South America, stating that the party has just returned to its headquarters in Arequipa, Peru, from its first year's exploration on the head waters of the Amazon. The party, consisting of Dr. Farabee, J. W. Hastings '05, L. J. deMilhau '06, and Dr. E. F. Horr, left Cambridge about a year ago for a three years' ethnological trip to study the primitive Indian tribes of South America. Mrs. Farabee, who accompanied the party, is still in Arequipa...
...Arequipa, Peru, on the west slope of the Andes, where the Harvard Observatory is located. From this point trips of a few months' duration will be made among the neighboring Indian tribes. The main work will be among the tribes living on the head waters of the Amazon and Parana Rivers. There has been no previous expedition of this sort from America, and the only work done in this region has been by the Germans. In an ethnological way the region is practically unexplored, and will be of the greatest importance in advancing scientific knowledge of the primitive South American...
...Farabee '00, instructor in Anthropology, will next fall be in charge of a small party, composed of L. J. de Milhau '06, J. W. Hastings 2G., and some third person not yet definitely chosen, to carry on research work about the head-waters of the Amazon. In October the party will leave for Arequipa, Peru, where temporary headquarters will be established. The work, which will probably take three years, will consist chiefly in studying the manners and customs of the native tribes, and in gathering ethnological material for the Department of Anthropology...
...Hamilton Rice '98 will speak before the Travellers' Club on his trip across South America by way of the Napo and Amazon rivers in the Training Table Room of the Union at 8 o'clock this evening. The meeting will be open only to members of the Travellers' Club and their friends...
...last Friday evening, and the object of which is "the promotion of intelligent travel and exploration, especially by Harvard men," will hold three more meetings this spring. On March 27, Mr. A. Hamilton Rice, '98, will speak on "Equatorial America," describing his journey over the Andes and down the Amazon; this meeting will be open to members of the club and invited guests. On May 1, a lecture will probably be given by Professor I. C. Russell, lately of the U. S. Geological Survey, now of the University of Michigan, on his ascent of Mt. Rainier, this being...