Word: coast
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...summer course in geological field work in the San Juan and Needle Mountains of southwestern Colorado, beginning August 15 and ending September 23. The members of the course will meet in St. Louis, and will first make an excursion through New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California to the Pacific coast, returning through Nevada and Utah, to study some of the larger geological features in the region traversed. Those who give five weeks to field study and submit a satisfactory report may receive credit for a half-course. The total expense of the trip, including fee for the course, will...
...Harlan I. Smith, of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, will give a lecture on "Recent Investigations on the Northwest Coast of America," this evening at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Muscum, under the auspices of the Anthropological Society...
...United States Civil Service Commission announces the following-named scientific and technical examinations to be held on April 19, 1904, at the places marked D in the Manual of Examinations: aid, Coast and Geodetic Service; civil and electrical engineer, Philippine Service; civil engineer, Philippine Service; civil engineer and draftsman; architectural computer (Supervising Architect's Office); computer, Nautical Almanac Office; computer, Naval Observatory; deck officer, Coast and Geodetic Survey; topographic draftsman (Land Office Service); library assistant; manual training teacher; trained nurse, Philippine Service...
...April 12 by Professor A. F. Chamberlain, of Clark University, on "What our Civilization Owes to the American Indian," and the third, some time after the April recess, by Mr. H. I. Smith, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, on "Recent Anthropological Investigations on the Northwest Coast of America...
General Crozier devoted the first part of his address to a description of the various kinds of ordnance used by the United States, both for coast defense and for the use of mobile armies, illustrating his explanations by stereopticon views. This was followed by an account of the equipment and personnel of the standing army as well as the militia, towards which, General Crozier said, the attitude of the government is more of encouragement than of control...