Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...animals, Mr. Seton said, we find the beginnings of the power of reasoning. For example, the wolves of North America adapted themselves to their new surroundings after the advent of civilized man. Cattle-rangers in the West undertook a systematic extermination of the gray wolves which molested their herds, until in 1889 all seemed to have vanished. Gradually, however, the wolves learned to avoid the poisoned baits and traps, and communicated this knowledge to others. Adaptation to new conditions brought safety, and wolves are now almost as numerous as ever...
...Museum has also received a few objects from caves in Central America, and other Indian relics and bones from Mexico...
...political subjects, and the foremost orator in the Japanese House of Peers. He is president of the "American Friends' Society," and a close student of American institutions. To him, perhaps, more than to any other one man, is due the credit of bringing about the present friendly relations between America and Japan...
...Harlan I. Smith, of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, will give a lecture on "Recent Investigations on the Northwest Coast of America," this evening at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Muscum, under the auspices of the Anthropological Society...
...great advantages which America has over Europe is that the former not having met with the same struggles, is free from those prejudices which are still detaining the European democracy. With De Tocqueville, M. Leroy-Beaulieu believes that this is one of the principal causes of the success of democracy in America, and one of the best guarantees of its advance in the future...