Word: bay
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee on the new Yale launch have not been able to secure a suitable launch already built, and have directed Messrs. Reilly and Crowley of Brooklyn to build a new boat. Mr. Samuel Ayers, the Bay Ridge launch builder, has the contract for building the hull, and the boat is to be in readiness for the practice pulls of the crew in the harbor by the middle of May. The contract calls for a 52-foot launch that will steam 14 knots an hour for 90 miles. The new launch will be 52 feet long, about the same length...
Geological Conference. Papers by Mr. R. S. Tarr, "On Post-Glacial Changes in the Coast-Line of Massachusetts Bay;" Mr. L. H. Davis. "On a Submerged forest at Kennebunk beach, Maine." Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers by Mr. R. S. Tarr, "On Post-Glacial Changes in the Coast-Line of Massachusetts Bay;" Mr. L. H. Davis. "On a Submerged forest at Kennebunk Beach, Maine." Geological Laboratory...
...buildings for the new Stanford University, built by Senator and Mrs. Stanford as a monument to their son Leland, are rapidly approaching completion. They are situated at Palo Alto, an estate of 8,000 acres, reaching from the valley of the Bay of San Francisco to the foot hills of the coast range. In addition to the university and college buildings, the great dormitories and work shops, and the numerous other buildings necessary for a university which is intended to accommodate 800 male and female students, Mrs. Stanford is preparing, out of her own income, the construction of a building...
...Marine Laboratory of Johns Hopkins, which has been closed for several years from lack of funds, is to be reopened in the Bahamas under the direction of Dr. William K, Brolks. At its first establishment at Chesapeake Bay and Beaufort. N. C., valuable studies were made in propagation and maintenance of the oyster, which have been published and widely circulated. In 1886 the laboratory sought a wider field, and in June of that year seven students, under the supervision of Dr. Brooks, prosecuted their studies at Green Turtle Key, in the Bahamas. The results were so successful that the next...