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...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...
Phillips Brooks House will be open tomorrow afternoon from 3 to 6 o'clock. At 4.30 o'clock Professor W. H. Pickering will speak on "The Harvard Astronomical Observatory at Arequipa, Peru," and after the talk D. Grant s.'97 will sing several songs...
Popular Science-"The Arequipa Station of Harvard Observatory," by S. I. Bailey...
...southern, stars. The mountings for the one to be set up in Cambridge are expected shortly, and as soon as they arrive the instrument will be mounted in the yard of the Observatory. The other telescope will be installed at the southern station of the Observatory in Arequipa, Peru. The telescopes are to be used ehiedy for photographic work and will be more powerful than any other now used in the Observatory for this purpose...
...addition the report contains a detailed statement of the work carried on this past year in Cambridge, in the southern station at Arequipa, Peru, and at the meteorological observatory on Blue Hill...