Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...right to give that plant a scientific name, which, thereafter, must be accepted by botanists as the only correct one. Further, if he preserves a specimen of his newly discovered plant, it becomes a type. In many cases the description given by the discoverers, especially the Spanish explorers of America are very inadequate. Consequently, when further exploration brings to light numerous species of the same genera as the types, it often becomes necessary to compare these with the types themselves in order to determine which are the new and which are the old species...
...Peabody Museum will send out an expedition, about the middle of next week, to continue exploration in the ruined and pre-historic city of Copan, Central America. Mr. Gordon, who conducted the former expedition to this place, is to have charge again, and will meet his former co-workers in Central America. The party will probably be gone about six months. The object of the expedition will be to make photographs and moulds of the sculptures and inscriptions which may be found...
...last five years, Mr. Mott has been the executive head of the Student Christian Association and the Student Volunteer movement of America. In 1899 he received an honorary A.M. from Yale in recognition of his "distinguished services to the students of the world...
Five Filipino boys, ranging in age from eleven to sixteen years, have been sent to America to be educated, upon the recommendation of the Philippine Commission. They are under the guardianship of President Wheeler of the University of California and have been placed in Boone's Academy, where they will prepare for the University of California...
History: 1, Great Men of America; 2, Current Events; 3, French Revolution...