Word: coasts
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After making a short sketch of the life along the coast of the Mediterranean between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the period in which the Barbary pirates were most active, M. Millet described Algiers-its soil, climate, productions and inhabitants. France had a long and difficult struggle before it conquered this barbarous country, and after finally subduing it, was confronted with the puzzling problem of conciliating two widely different races, the conquered and the conquerors. In the beginning, many mistakes were made, but the general condition of the country is steadily improving and the natives show by their increase...
...proposed geological trip which he will lead to Iceland during the summer. On or about May 25, the party will leave Boston for Liverpool. On June 10 it will leave Leith, Scotland, by Steamer and will make a circuit of the island, stopping at places of interest on the coast, and finally landing at Reykjavik, whence a trip will be made north ward over the island on foot or horseback. The party will return by steamer to Reykjavik and then to Leith after and absence of about 40 days. The maximum expense per man should not exceed...
...temporary loan have recently been added to the number placed on the screen in the upper room, forming an exhibition of Turner drawings hitherto unparalled in this country. The two new drawings are a study of breaking waves, lent by Mr. Edward Forbes '95, and "Tintagel" from the "Southern Coast" series, lent by Mr. Francis Bullard '86. The latter has been on temporary exhibition twice before. The others on view are: a very early drawing of bridge and cottage in much the mannered style of Turner's masters; an early drawing of a country gentleman's house and ground; "Ehrenbreitstein...
...department of anthropology at Columbia, and is curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He has spent much time with the Esquimaux in Baffin's Bay, and the Indians in British Columbia and Southern Alaska, as well as throughout the entire Pacific Coast. Besides having written extensively on these particular regions, and on various general questions of anthropology, Dr. Boaz was director of the Morris Jessup expedition to Behring Strait, which was engaged for six years in the study of the peoples of Northeastern Asia and Northwestern America...
Afternoon Meeting.--"The Seabirds of the Oregon Coast," W. L. Finley (60 minutes); exhibition of lantern slides, W. L. Bailey (15 minutes); illustrated readings from Thoreau's journals, H. W. Gleason (45 minutes); "Experiments With Nesting Boxes," E. H. Forbush (15 minutes); "The Cormorants of Great Lake," T. G. Pearson (15 minutes...