Word: british
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Geological Tour in Montana and British Columbia." (Illustrated.) Professor Wolff. "New Minerals and New Mineral Occurrences." Professor Palache. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...Wesleyan University in 1905. He held the position of chairman of the first managing committee of the American School or Classical Studies at Athens, and is honorary president of the Archaeological Institute of America, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary member of the British Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Professor White is the author of numerous school and college textbooks and monographs on philological and archaeological subjects...
...Boston Public Library has arranged an exhibition of books, prints and manuscripts relating to the life and work of the poet. There are also several portraits, and facsimiles of documents and autographs in Milton's works, received from the British Museum. The collection is now on exhibition in the fine arts department on the third floor of the library, and will remain open daily throughout December, from...
...University Museum, consists of a valuable collection of war implements, household utensils and trinkets, collected by Dr. Agassiz during his visit to Africa last winter. The collection comprises more than 200 specimens, obtained from the Bantu, Nandi, Lumbwa and Masai tribes of negroes, in the vicinity of Lake Victoria, British Uganda Protectorate, and British East Africa. These tribes are from three separate African stocks and speak three different languages. There are also some specimens from the Somali negroes, of Northeast Africa, and from the Mombasa region of South British Africa. The collection consists of spears, clubs, shields, war-knives, clothing...
...time editor of the "Nation" and the "New York Post." Lectures on this foundation are to treat "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen," or some similar subject. President Eliot is the second incumbent of the lectureship. The first was the Right Honorable James Bryce, British Ambassador to the United States, who, in the fall of 1904, delivered a series of five lectures on "The Study of Popular Government." The lectures this year will probably be given...