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...object of the expedition will be to study the changes in the heart, circulation, respiration, and chemical composition of the blood which enable the residents of Cerro de Pasco to live there in comfort and to arduous work in the copper-mines, at an altitude in which most people would be able to do comparatively little on account of the rarity of the air. Scientists have frequently spent a few days or weeks at great heights to test the effect of the altitude on themselves, but the studies made on the natives of Cerro de Pasco will be the first...
After completing the studies at Cerro de Pasco, the investigators expect to spend a short time at Ticleo, on the watershed of the Andes. Ticleo, which is at an altitude of 16,000 feet, is the highest standard gauge railroad station in the world. They will return by February first, and later in the year Mr. Bancroft will give a series of lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston...
...Ward, a former professor at Yale, died recently at Cerro de Paseo, Peru...