Word: coast
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...expedition will start from New York on June 25, immediately after the close of the college year. The course will lie along the Labrador coast to the west of Greenland, past the fjords and the Norse ruins to Melvill bay to the Peary party. Then the Kane, Hayes and Greeley winter quarters will be visited, and after a tour through Greenland the homeward trip will be begun, reaching New York about the middle of September...
...Melville's charge alone survived. He made the land at the delta of the Lena river in northern Siberia. For the last five days the journey had been made in the boat, without provisions of any kind. The bodies of the men were badly frozen. The party searched the coast about the mouth of the Lena thoroughly, but no trace of their missing comrades was found...
...sent many emigrants from the southern states to Liberia, and there is at present such a wide-spread interest among the Negroes in colonization that the society is trying to gain friends who will aid in transporting those who wish to become citizens of the republic on the west coast of Africa...
...considered, and finally the Constitutional Convention will be taken up. It has not been determined whether the lectures will be given daily or once a week. Mr. Harrison will remain at the university till about May first, and will employ his leisure visiting points of interest on the coast...
...French army. One of the models was the best of its kind exhibited at the fair. It is of a review used by the officers of the French army for the study of military evolutions. While Harvard has had to share part of the exhibit with the U. S. Coast Survey, she is fortunate in getting this model, as it is the only one possessed by a non-military institution...