Word: british
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...indissoluble allegiance made by European nations as a result of their monarchical institutions. The chief cause of the War of 1812 was England's refusal to recognize the right of her subjects to become American citizens and the consequent claim of the right to impress American seamen of British origin into the English navy. The negotiations following this war led to no definite settlement of the question, nor did the discussion between Daniel Webster and Lord Ashburton...
...Church History, Section" and in the evening a joint meeting will be held with the American Economic Association at hich the presidents of both associations will give addresses. The session on "Western History" will be held at the University of Michigan, on Friday afternoon, and the following morning "British and American History" will be treated. Professor A. B. Hart will open the discussion...
...missionary in the Honan province of North China, the province in which the anti-foreign sentiment has been peculiarly bitter. For some time he worked near Pao-ting-fu, and it was here that the recent Boxer eruptions broke with greatest violence. Dr. Taylor has received six degrees from British and French Medical societies, is a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England...
...curator of the Princeton Ornithological Museum has recently received from the British museum a gift of 2000 birds, collected from the Malay Islands, India, and various parts of Europe...
...been engaged. He stayed sometime at Geneva, where, in the de Candolle collection there is a very large number of types of Mexican and South American species discovered by the Spanish explorers. He also examined types in the Michaux collection at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, in the British Museum of Natural History in London, and at the Kew Gardens, also in the vicinity or London. At the Kew Gardens, there is the largest collection in the world of both dry and live plants...